"Atua" is a word in CEBUANO
atúa short form: túa is there, far away.
Atúa (túa) pa ba siya puyù sa Manílà?
Does he still live (there) in Manila?
Tua na.
Bag-u pa siyang milakaw, Hes gone (lit.
over there).
He just left.
One of the hardest-to-swallow, most countercultural, counter intuitive implications of the gospel is that bearing up under a difficult burden with patient perseverance is a good thing.
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