Trouvé 7906 Résultats pour: City Of The Lord
For in the case of the other nations the Lord waits patiently to punish them until they have reached the full measure of their sins; but he does not deal in this way with us, (2 Maccabees 6, 14)
When he was about to die under the blows, he groaned aloud and said: "It is clear to the Lord in his holy knowledge that, though I might have been saved from death, I am enduring terrible sufferings in my body under this beating, but in my soul I am glad to suffer these things because I fear him." (2 Maccabees 6, 30)
"The Lord God is watching over us and in truth has compassion on us, as Moses declared in his song which bore witness against the people to their faces, when he said, `And he will have compassion on his servants.'" (2 Maccabees 7, 6)
The mother was especially admirable and worthy of honorable memory. Though she saw her seven sons perish within a single day, she bore it with good courage because of her hope in the Lord. (2 Maccabees 7, 20)
And if our living Lord is angry for a little while, to rebuke and discipline us, he will again be reconciled with his own servants. (2 Maccabees 7, 33)
So he died in his integrity, putting his whole trust in the Lord. (2 Maccabees 7, 40)
They besought the Lord to look upon the people who were oppressed by all, and to have pity on the temple which had been profaned by ungodly men, (2 Maccabees 8, 2)
and to have mercy on the city which was being destroyed and about to be leveled to the ground, and to hearken to the blood that cried out to him, (2 Maccabees 8, 3)
As soon as Maccabeus got his army organized, the Gentiles could not withstand him, for the wrath of the Lord had turned to mercy. (2 Maccabees 8, 5)
Others sold all their remaining property, and at the same time besought the Lord to rescue those who had been sold by the ungodly Nicanor before he ever met them, (2 Maccabees 8, 14)
keeping before their eyes the lawless outrage which the Gentiles had committed against the holy place, and the torture of the derided city, and besides, the overthrow of their ancestral way of life. (2 Maccabees 8, 17)
And when they had collected the arms of the enemy and stripped them of their spoils, they kept the sabbath, giving great praise and thanks to the Lord, who had preserved them for that day and allotted it to them as the beginning of mercy. (2 Maccabees 8, 27)
