Encontrados 620 resultados para: Holy
it came about that the kings themselves honoured the holy place and enhanced the glory of the Temple with the most splendid offerings, (2 Maccabees 3, 2)
People rushed headlong from the houses, intent on making public supplication because of the indignity threatening the holy place. (2 Maccabees 3, 18)
the Jews blessed the Lord who had miraculously glorified his own holy place. And the Temple, which a little while before had been filled with terror and commotion, now overflowed with joy and gladness at the manifestation of the almighty Lord. (2 Maccabees 3, 30)
'If you have some enemy or anyone disloyal to the state, send him there, and you will get him back well flogged, if he survives at all, since some peculiarly divine power attaches to the holy place. (2 Maccabees 3, 38)
with impure hands he seized the sacred vessels; with impious hands he seized the offerings presented by other kings for the aggrandisement, glory and dignity of the holy place. (2 Maccabees 5, 16)
Holding so high an opinion of himself, Antiochus did not realise that the Lord was temporarily angry at the sins of the inhabitants of the city, hence his unconcern for the holy place. (2 Maccabees 5, 17)
The Lord, however, had not chosen the people for the sake of the holy place, but the holy place for the sake of the people; (2 Maccabees 5, 19)
and so the holy place itself, having shared the disasters that befell the people, in due course also shared their good fortune; having been abandoned by the Almighty in his anger, once the great Sovereign was placated it was reinstated in all its glory. (2 Maccabees 5, 20)
Arriving in Jerusalem and posing as a man of peace, this man waited until the holy day of the Sabbath and then, taking advantage of the Jews as they rested from work, ordered his men to parade fully armed; (2 Maccabees 5, 25)
But having taken a noble decision worthy of his years and the dignity of his great age and the well-earned distinction of his grey hairs, worthy too of his impeccable conduct from boyhood, and above all of the holy legislation established by God himself, he answered accordingly, telling them to send him at once to Hades. (2 Maccabees 6, 23)
and I shall have left the young a noble example of how to make a good death, eagerly and generously, for the venerable and holy laws.' So saying, he walked straight to the wheel, (2 Maccabees 6, 28)
He for his part, just before he died under the blows, gave a sigh and said, 'The Lord whose knowledge is holy sees clearly that, though I might have escaped death, from awe of him I gladly endure these agonies of body under the lash, and that in my soul I am glad to suffer.' (2 Maccabees 6, 30)
