Talált 4918 Eredmények: Rom
But no, their sentence should be executed by degrees, giving them opportunity to repent; though indeed thou knewest well that theirs was a worthless breed, of a malice so ingrained, that they would turn aside from their ill devices never; (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 10)
from its beginnings, an accursed race.Nor, if thou wast patient with the sinner, was it human respect that persuaded thee to it. (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 11)
Two lessons thy people were to learn from these dealings of thine; ever should justice and mercy go hand in hand, never should thy own children despair of forestalling thy justice by repentance. (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 19)
and wouldst thou shew less anxious care in trying the cause of thy own children, bound to thee from of old by a sworn covenant so rich in mercies? (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 21)
Such great beauty✻ even creatures have, reason is well able to contemplate the Source from which these perfections came. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 5)
No pains does he spare to keep it from falling; fall if it does, it shall find no remedy; please you, this is but an image, and cannot shift for itself! (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 16)
For indeed they were no part of man’s life from the first, nor shall be at the last; (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 13)
And no marvel; what hurt should they take from the oath falsely sworn, since all their faith is in dead gods? (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 29)
Despise we not the potter’s toil, that works the pliant earth between his fingers, and makes a cup here, a dish there for our use. Serve they noble ends or base, all alike come from the same clay, and what employment each of them shall find, it is the potter’s right to determine. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 7)
Such a man, as no other, sins with his eyes open; from the same earthenware he will make you fragile pot or carved effigy as you will. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 13)
Fools all, and doomed to misery beyond the common doom of tyrants,✻ were the enemies that from time to time have lorded it over thy people. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 14)
Though hunger drove them to food, the men of Egypt turned away with loathing from the necessaries they craved, so foul the sight of the frogs that came to punish them. Thy own people should go wanting for a little, only so as to prepare them for the dainties that would follow. (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 3)
