Talált 1459 Eredmények: Age
And indeed your all-powerful hand which created the world from formless matter, did not lack means to unleash a horde of bears or savage lions on them (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 17)
or unknown beasts, newly created, full of rage, breathing out fire, or puffing out stinking smoke, or flashing fearful sparks from their eyes, (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 18)
beasts able not only to destroy them, being so savage, but even to strike them dead by their terrifying appearance. (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 19)
Not that you were unable to hand the godless over to the upright in pitched battle or destroy them at once by savage beasts or one harsh word; (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 9)
Small blame, however, attaches to them, for perhaps they go astray only in their search for God and their eagerness to find him; (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 6)
Thus he makes sure that it will not fall down -- being well aware that it cannot help itself, since it is only an image, and needs to be helped. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 16)
And yet, if he wishes to pray for his goods, for his marriage, for his children, he does not blush to harangue this lifeless thing -- for health, he invokes what is weak, (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 17)
Why, in the beginning, when the proud giants were perishing, the hope of the world took refuge on a raft and, steered by your hand, preserved the seed of a new generation for the ages to come. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 6)
A father afflicted by untimely mourning has an image made of his child so soon carried off, and now pays divine honours to what yesterday was only a corpse, handing on mysteries and ceremonies to his people; (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 15)
Rulers were the ones who ordered that statues should be worshipped: people who could not honour them in person, because they lived too far away, would have a portrait made of their distant countenance, to have an image that they could see of the king whom they honoured; meaning, by such zeal, to flatter the absent as if he were present. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 17)
they no longer retain any purity in their lives or their marriages, one treacherously murdering another or wronging him by adultery. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 24)
disturbance of decent people, forgetfulness of favours, pollution of souls, sins against nature, disorder in marriage, adultery and debauchery. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 26)
