Father Abraham

Were it not for the wickedness involved in it, nothing can be conceived more ludicrously amusing, than the notion of Father Abraham buying and selling slaves, feeding them on a peck of corn a week, selling fathers from their children, husbands from their wives, or exhibiting conduct in an other respect resembling that of our modern professed Christian slaveholders.

A condensed anti-slavery Bible argument, by 1845

Pierre Kartner alias Father Abraham who was responsible for the Smurf Song in 1978 wrote the song "

Oikotimes.com RSS Feed 2010

I mean to have a talk with 'Father Abraham' himself, among others.”

Authors and Friends Fields, Annie, 1834-1915 1896

In the famous account of the rich man and Lazarus, described in Luke 16:19-31, the dead rich man in torment asks permission of Father Abraham to return and warn his brothers.

Brad Reid: What Is Truth? Brad Reid 2011

In the famous account of the rich man and Lazarus, described in Luke 16:19-31, the dead rich man in torment asks permission of Father Abraham to return and warn his brothers.

Brad Reid: What Is Truth? Brad Reid 2011

For the wise man who had led the Union through four years of bloody civil war -- Father Abraham -- was dead.

American History Series: After Lincoln's Murder 2010

He wrote, inter alia: “The husband has shown that his actions are evil and that he is no true descendant of our Father Abraham, whose way was to practice compassion towards humankind, and all the more so for his wife, who entered into a covenant with him. … [and if he behaves properly to his wife] he is blessed that he has merited her, since through her he acquires the World to Come. …”

Rashi. 2009

Sabeel offers an ecumenical and interfaith theology that seeks to unite the World Wide Body of Christ to the suffering of their sisters, brothers and cousins in the family of Father Abraham in Israel Palestine.

A Review of: A Palestinian Christian Cry for Reconciliation, by Rev. Naim Ateek 2009

And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.

The Dor�� Gallery of Bible Illustrations 2008

Candide instantly sent for a Jew, to whom he sold for fifty thousand sequins a diamond richly worth one hundred thousand, though the fellow swore to him all the time by Father Abraham that he gave him the most he could possibly afford.

Candide 2007