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  • ZOMG! philoxenia is open again?? their meatballs are the BEST! mmm, mmmmeat.

    PROFILE: Midtown Lunch’er “Robert Sietsema” | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2008

  • I thought about trying to explain not just kashrut, but what a JEW was…and then decided that their philosophy of philoxenia, kindness to strangers, was more important than kashrut.

    The Vegetarianism Conundrum « educating alice 2010

  • It contains some ten thousand inhabitants, amiable, intelligent and distinguished by a _philoxenia_ befitting the traditions of men who sheltered Pythagoras in his hour of need.

    Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

  • The [Greek: philoxenia], and the intercourse with other communities (the fostering of the "unitas") belonged, above all, to the affairs of the church.

    History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

  • Dear to the heart of the believing Church for ages have been these precepts to love the brethren ([Greek: philadelphia]), to love the stranger ([Greek: philoxenia]), to remember Abraham at Mamre and Gideon at Ophrah with their angel-guests, and to see a possible angel-visitor in every needing stranger at the door.

    Messages from the Epistle to the Hebrews 1880

  • Therefore, the author of Hebrews hastens to add to his exhortation to philadelphia: philoxenia.

    WORLDmag.com | Community 2010

  • In the evening, he will be addressing the meeting's opening session and on Monday taking part in a panel discussion about xenophobia and philoxenia.

    timesofmalta.com 2008

  • In the evening, he will be addressing the meeting's opening session and on Monday taking part in a panel discussion about xenophobia and philoxenia.

    timesofmalta.com 2008

  • This is the legendary Greek philoxenia, tender and thoughtful hospitality.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2008

  • In the evening, he will be addressing the meeting's opening session and on Monday taking part in a panel discussion about xenophobia and philoxenia.

    timesofmalta.com 2008

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