Trouvé 213 Résultats pour: Sacred Money
No sooner did Apollonius find himself in the royal presence than he told the story of the rumoured treasure; and at that, the king sent for Heliodorus, that had charge of his affairs, and despatched him with orders to fetch the said money away. (2 Maccabees 3, 7)
But Heliodorus stood upon the terms of his commission; delivered to the king the money must be, there was no other way of it. (2 Maccabees 3, 13)
Priests, in their sacred vesture, cast themselves down before the altar, and cried out upon heaven; would not he, whose law enjoined safe-keeping, keep property safe for its rightful owners? (2 Maccabees 3, 15)
What, should those sacred ornaments, dedicated by kings and peoples for the more splendour and worthiness of it, be caught up in his impious hands, pawed and defiled by his touch? (2 Maccabees 5, 16)
All riot and revelry the temple became, once the Gentiles had it; here was dallying with harlots, and women making their way into the sacred precincts, and bringing in of things abominable; (2 Maccabees 6, 4)
Esdras✻ was bidden read aloud from the sacred writings, and the watchword was given, God’s Aid. And with that, out went Judas at the head of his army, and engaged the enemy. (2 Maccabees 8, 23)
All the money that had been paid for their enslaving fell into Jewish hands, and they gave the enemy chase far and wide, (2 Maccabees 8, 25)
And for that sacred temple he had stripped bare, with choice gifts he would enrich it, furnishing it as never before, and defraying, from his own purse, all the cost of its sacrifices. (2 Maccabees 9, 16)
and the temple was purged of its defilement. They made a fresh altar, struck fire from flint, and offered sacrifice again after two years’ intermission; rose incense, burned lamp, loaves were set out on the sacred table once more. (2 Maccabees 10, 3)
A fitting reward, this, for one that had done so many outrages upon God’s altar; fire of it and ashes of it are sacred, and it was by ashes Menelaus went to his death. (2 Maccabees 13, 8)
No good ever came of money ill gotten; honest living is death’s avoiding. (Proverbs 10, 2)
What is his decree? Why, that covetousness should never fill its own maw; never did he that loved money taste the enjoyment of his money;✻ here is frustration once again. (Ecclesiastes 5, 9)
