Gomorrha

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Gomorrha - (Old Testament) an ancient city near the Dead Sea that (along with Sodom) was destroyed by God for the vice and depravity of its inhabitants

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Old Testament - the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible

Israel, State of Israel, Yisrael, Zion, Sion - Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine

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The image of a wrathful God does exist in the Old Testament, from the punishment of Egyptians for enslaving Israelites, to Sodom and Gomorrha, and Pacquiao himself has had his share too of selective scriptural quoting to support his views.

My God, your god

Blake in Milton (E 137) also enumerates Milton's idolatrous gods, where "In Palestine Dagon [was worshipped as a] Sea Monster," for in Book One of Paradise Lost (462-65) "Dagon," a god of "Palestine," is described as a "Sea Monster." Blake's "Belial of Sodom & Gomorrha [sic]," with his "back turnd to the light" further echoes Milton's description in Paradise Lost (1.500-503), in which "the Sons / Of Beliar' are found in the "Streets of Sodom," when "Night / Darkens the Streets." Blake's Heathen Gods, "Saturn Jove & Reah of the Isles of the Sea remote" in Milton 37/41, relate to Paradise Lost (1.510-21), because "Saturn" and "Jove" and "Reah's Son" ...

Blake: Milton inside Milton

To the contrary, a careful reading of his treatment of Albertine and the Bloch cousins allows for a more nuanced and complicated understanding not only of Albertine but also of the rhetoric of Gomorrha (lesbianism) within Proust's imaginary.

Albertine and the inverted mirrors: reflections of geographic and ethnic otherness

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