Talált 832 Eredmények: Holy Nation

• Alleluia! Praise God in his holy place, praise him in the heavenly vault of his power, (Psalms 150, 1)

• So he advanced to the ends of the earth, plundering nation after nation; the earth grew silent before him, and his ambitious heart swelled with pride. (1 Maccabees 1, 3)

• disguised their circumcision, and abandoned the holy covenant, submitting to gentile rule as willing slaves of impiety. (1 Maccabees 1, 15)

• The king then issued a proclamation to his whole kingdom that all were to become a single people, each nation renouncing its particular customs. (1 Maccabees 1, 41)

• defiling the sanctuary and everything holy, (1 Maccabees 1, 46)

• They chose death rather than contamination by such fare or profanation of the holy covenant, and they were executed. (1 Maccabees 1, 63)

• he said, 'Alas that I should have been born to witness the ruin of my people and the ruin of the Holy City, and to sit by while she is delivered over to her enemies, and the sanctuary into the hand of foreigners. (1 Maccabees 2, 7)

• Is there a nation that has not claimed a share of her royal prerogatives, that has not taken some of her spoils? (1 Maccabees 2, 10)

• See how the Holy Place, our beauty, our glory, is now laid waste, see how the gentiles have profaned it! (1 Maccabees 2, 12)

• Raising his voice, Mattathias retorted, 'Even if every nation living in the king's dominions obeys him, each forsaking its ancestral religion to conform to his decrees, (1 Maccabees 2, 19)

• Your holy place has been trampled underfoot and defiled, your priests mourn in their humiliation, (1 Maccabees 3, 51)

• Better for us to die in battle than to watch the ruin of our nation and our Holy Place. (1 Maccabees 3, 59)