AtD translation: in a great heavenwide twinkling they came / Jesus-rapt ascensionary

[Mark Kohut]

Jesus-rapt would mean something like "caught in the rapture of Jesus". A
true believer of a fundamentalist sort who flies with his eyes on Jesus
only, so to speak.

http://ww.vheissu.net/words/lemma.php?l=566

The New-century Bible - Volume 3 - Page 94 - Google Books Result
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https://books.google.com/books?id=-Sk2AQAAMAAJ
Walter Frederic Adeney - 1922
For to Jesus' rapt gaze, as his eyes sought the heavens in silent prayer
(Luke iii. 21) of adoration and trust in his heavenly Father, those heavens
parted asunder ...

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Come Forth - Page 314 - Google Books Result
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1890 - ‎Raising of Lazarus (Miracle)
Amos of Gethsemane and Baruch of Bethany followed. The three men executed
the command in silence, and fell back. But Jesus, rapt in prayer, stood
with eyes ...


On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 9:51 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> P14.13-25   Since that morning, before the first light, a gay,
> picnic-going throng of aeromaniacs of one sort and another had been
> continuing all day now to volà-voile in, till long after sundown, through
> the midwestern summer evening whose fading light they were most of them too
> busy quite to catch the melancholy of, their wings both stationary and
> a-flap, gull and albatross and bat-styled wings, wings of gold-beaters’
> skin and bamboo, wings laboriously detailed with celluloid feathers, in a
> great heavenwide twinkling they came, bearing all degrees of aviator from
> laboratory skeptic to Jesus-rapt ascensionary, accompanied often by
> sky-dogs, who had learned how to sit still, crowded next to them in the
> steering-cabins of their small airships, observing the instrument panels
> and barking if they noticed something the pilot had failed to—though others
> could be observed at gunwales and flying bridges, their heads thrust out
> into the passing airflow, looks of bliss on their faces.
>
> What does "in a great heavenwide twinkling" mean here? And what is a
> "Jesus-rapt ascensionary"?
>
>
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