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Calvary vs Tribulation - What's the difference?

calvary | tribulation |

As a noun calvary

is a life-size representation of the crucifixion of jesus christ on a piece of raised ground.

As a proper noun tribulation is

(christianity) a relatively short period of time before the second coming where believers will experience worldwide persecution and be purified and strengthened by it.

calvary

English

(wikipedia Calvary)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • The hill outside Jerusalem which is traditionally held to be the location of the crucifixion of Jesus.

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    tribulation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any adversity; a trying period or event.
  • * 1535 , , Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation , ch. 6:
    • For the blessed apostle himself in his sore tribulation', praying thrice unto God to take it away from him, was answered again by God (in a manner) that he was but a fool in asking that request, but that the help of God's grace in that '''tribulation''' to strengthen him was far better for him than to take that ' tribulation from him.
  • * 1847 , , Omoo , ch. 11:
    • Baltimore's tribulations were indeed sore; there was no peace for him day nor night.
  • * 1944 June 27, , Speech in Chicago, Illinois to the 23rd Republican National Convention:
    • It is youth who must inherit the tribulation , the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.
  • * 2009 Sept. 24, , " Kristina'': A New Musical from the ABBA Guys," ''New York Times (retrieved 12 March 2014):
    • Essentially stoic, passive characters, Kristina and the others triumph by surviving — by outliving their plagues and tribulations .

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