раб божий

• РАБ БОЖИЙ obs

[NP, usu. sing; usu. this WO]

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1. a person as a subject of God:

- God's creature;

- God's servant;

- servant of God <of our Lord>.

     ♦ "Помянем раба Божия Фому. Царство ему Небесное!" (Максимов 3). "Lets drink to the memory of God's servant Foma. May he rest in peace!" (3a).

     ♦ "Человек не раб Божий, но и не царь природы - обе формулировки одинаково нелепы..." (Горенштейн 1). "Man is not a servant of God, but neither is he the lord of nature. The two formulas are equally absurd ." (1a).

2. iron or humor simply a human being (usu. used in refer, to a person who has to submit to s.o.'s will, to some circumstances etc):

- God's servant.

     ♦ [Расплюев:] Свезут тебя... в Преображенскую и посадят тебя, раба божия, нацепуру (Сухово-Кобылин 2). [R..] They'll take you ..to the madhouse and keep you, God's servant, on a chain .. (2a)