besprinkling

a general contempt for everything by the superior holy Hebdomad, [2976] since the mother was always secretly opposed to them, and carefully preserved what was peculiarly her own, that is, the besprinkling of light.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

Isaac listened with tolerable composure while Ben Samuel read the letter, and then again resumed the gestures and exclamations of Oriental sorrow, tearing his garments, besprinkling his head with dust, and ejaculating, “My daughter! my daughter! flesh of my flesh, and bone of my bone!”

Ivanhoe 2004

Before, the boy never bothered the sailors in this playful and light work; nay, he took an active part, besprinkling them with water and laughingly running away, when they threatened to pour water over him.

The Man Who Was Afraid 2003

Foma liked to watch while the deck was being washed: their trousers rolled up to their knees, or sometimes taken off altogether, the sailors, with swabs and brushes in their hands, cleverly ran about the deck, emptying pails of water on it, besprinkling one another, laughing, shouting, falling.

The Man Who Was Afraid 2003

Upon this, her mother, the first woman, was moved with compassion towards her daughter, on her repentance, and begged from the first man that Christ should be sent to her assistance, who, being sent forth, descended to his sister, and to the besprinkling of light.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

They teach, however, that the power which proceeded from the woman by ebullition, being besprinkled with light, fell downward from the place occupied by its progenitors, yet possessing by its own will that besprinkling of light; and it they call Sinistra, Prunicus, and Sophia, as well as masculo-feminine.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

For they maintain that the whole besprinkling of light rushed to him, and that Christ, descending to this world, first clothed his sister Sophia

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

This continued until Prunicus, moved with compassion towards them, restored to them the sweet savour of the besprinkling of light, by means of which they came to a remembrance of themselves, and knew that they were naked, as well as that the body was a material substance, and thus recognised that they bore death about with them.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

But Sophia opposed him in this point also, and Noah and his family were saved in the ark by means of the besprinkling of that light which proceeded from her, and through it the world was again filled with mankind.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

But the consummation [of all things] will take place, when the whole besprinkling of the spirit of light is gathered together, and is carried off to form an incorruptible AEon.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001