Such structures can be read as dramas of redemption, of deliverance from the chaotic environment of an unreasoning nature. |
For centuries, Italians had turned to the Virgin Mary in times of individual or collective trouble to ask for salvation or deliverance. |
In Psalm 27, we are treated again to the language of light, salvation, and deliverance from enemies in the form of confession and petition. |
Or, just perhaps, the prayers of the faithful for deliverance from ungodly rule are at last being heard. |
As you led everyone in a prayer for deliverance from any curse over their lives, I felt a definite sense of release from bondage. |
Afraid he had not sacrificed in the proscribed manner, he squeezed his eyes shut and called out a prayer to God for deliverance. |