Talált 325 Eredmények: fathers
Full of a noble sense of honor, she encouraged each one of them in the language of their fathers. Her woman's heart was moved by manly courage, so she told them: (2 Maccabees 7, 21)
Antiochus thought that she was making fun of him and suspected that she had insulted him. As the youngest was still alive, the king tried to win him over not only with his words, but even promised to make him rich and happy, if he would abandon the traditions of his fathers. He would make him his Friend and appoint him to a high position in the kingdom. (2 Maccabees 7, 24)
When she finished speaking, the young man said, "What are you waiting for? I do not obey the king's order but the precepts of the Law given by Moses to our fathers. (2 Maccabees 7, 30)
With my brothers, I give up my body and my soul for the laws of my fathers, calling on God that he may at once have pity on our race, and that by trials and afflictions, you may come to confess that he is the only God. (2 Maccabees 7, 37)
They prayed that if the Lord would not save them because of their own merits, that at least out of consideration for the covenant he made with their fathers and for that great venerable Name with which he had blessed his people, he would do so. (2 Maccabees 8, 15)
He recounted to them all the occasions when God had come to help their fathers, especially when he wiped out one hundred and eighty-five thousand men under Sennacherib. (2 Maccabees 8, 19)
Then, he chanted a battle hymn in the language of their fathers, charged against the troops of Gorgias all of a sudden, and defeated them. (2 Maccabees 12, 37)
The next day the companions of Judas went to take away the bodies of the dead (it was urgent to do it) and buried them with their relatives in the tombs of their fathers. (2 Maccabees 12, 39)
He who fathers a fool has acquired misery, there is no joy for a fool's father. (Proverbs 17, 21)
he who fathers a wise man! May your father and mother rejoice and may she who bore you be glad. (Proverbs 23, 25)
God of our fathers and Lord of mercy, whose word has created everything and (Wisdom of Solomon 9, 1)
with what strict attention have you not judged your people, you who bound yourself to our fathers with oaths and covenants full of magnificent promises. (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 21)
