A “youngest child”.
Every large family has one.
Did you know that this word is originally the name of the last son of Jacob and Rachel?
"Benjamin", in Hebrew, means "son-of-the-right", which means "son of happiness".
As we know, the right side is indeed associated with the good side.
Take the expression “it's a Calvary!”: it comes to us from the New Testament and designates the place where Jesus was executed.
Mount Calvary, literally "Mount of the Skull", is indeed another name for Mount Golgotha.
Similarly, the formula "taking oneself for the queen of Sheba" which characterizes "a person who thinks he is important", comes to us straight from the first Book of Kings.
On the occasion of the Ascension,
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100 expressions drawn from religious culture
(Artège) by Françoise Claustres, to (re)discover these religious expressions that you use without knowing it.
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