Eunuchs

For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake.

Eunuchs and the Household Department Quotation of Puyi: No account of my childhood would be complete without mentioning the eunuchs.

Eunuchs often had much power in China, but the social prestige of eunuchs were extremely low, and Sima as someone who had lost the Emperor's favor was treated as an outcast by the elite.

Early Christian theologians of the time like St. Ambrose and St. Jerome perpetuated traditional gender norms, Consequently, eunuchs who had a special place in Byzantine society, were regarded as being morally deficient and unreliable.

He will tithe your crops and vineyards to provide for his eunuchs and his officials… He will tithe your flocks, and you yourselves become his slaves.

The representation of eunuchs in Indian cinema or television hasn’t always been very kind.

In the olden days, our palaces in the South-West had a retinue of the castrated called eunuchs, who kept the harem of the Obas.

When they were negotiating, one of the eunuchs allegedly snatched the wallet from her husband and fled.

Afterward, Emperor Huan employed eunuchs to depose Liang Ji, who was then forced to commit suicide.

An alternative story circulated after the battle that Valens had escaped the field with a bodyguard and some eunuchs, and hid in a peasant's cottage.

As these relatives occasionally were loath to give up their influence, emperors would, upon reaching maturity, be forced to rely on political alliances with senior officials and eunuchs to achieve control of the government.

Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 24; Southern, 168. Galerius convinced Diocletian that the culprits were Christians, conspirators who had plotted with the eunuchs of the palace.

Court eunuchs could rise to positions of authority in the Empire.

Court eunuchs had a significant role in the power structure, as emperors often relied on a few of them as confidants, which gave them access to many court documents.

Dong Zhuo in power In the same year, Emperor Ling died, and another struggle began between the court eunuchs for control of the imperial family.

Dreyer 2007, 12. He received a proper education while at Beiping, which he would not have had if he had been placed in the imperial capital Nanjing as the Hongwu Emperor did not trust eunuchs and believed that it was better to keep them illiterate.

Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven.

He also famously allied with the Tory right-winger Enoch Powell to scupper the government's plan to abolish the voting rights of hereditary peers and create a House of Lords comprising only life peers – a "seraglio of eunuchs" as Foot put it.

Jehu commanded the palace eunuchs to throw her from the window.

Meanwhile, the courtesans from the house of Marcus Lycus who had been recruited as mourners at "Philia"'s ersatz funeral have escaped, and Lycus sends his eunuchs out to bring them all back, adding to the general pandemonium.