Fondare 69 Risultati per: divine curses

• "If you have some enemy whom you wish to eliminate, send him there and you will see him return well flogged; that is, if he ever returns at all, for surely, divine power is in that place. (2 Maccabees 3, 38)

• For it is not easy to break the divine laws with impunity as the following episodes will show. (2 Maccabees 4, 17)

• So the cowardly and those who had no confidence in divine justice took to flight. (2 Maccabees 8, 13)

• Only when he was beaten by the divine scourge did he begin to shed his arrogance. His pains grew worse, and he realized this was the punishment of God. (2 Maccabees 9, 11)

• Those within were confident in the strength of the fortress, so they hurled insults and curses at the Jews. (2 Maccabees 10, 34)

• He curses the house of the evildoer but blesses the home of the upright. (Proverbs 3, 33)

• Whoever curses his father and mother will see his lamp extinguished in the midst of darkness. (Proverbs 20, 20)

• A blameless man hastened to their defense. Using the weapons of his sacred office - prayer and atonement incense - he confronted the divine Wrath, putting an end to their affliction, and was thus recognized as your servant. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 21)

• If someone curses you in the bitterness of his heart, the Creator will hear his prayer. (Ecclesiasticus 4, 6)

• Be willing to listen to all discourses on divine things, and do not let the sayings of the wise escape you. (Ecclesiasticus 6, 35)

• When the godless man curses his opponent, the curse descends on himself. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 27)

• The sinner will be caught in his own words, as happens to the proud man and to him who curses. (Ecclesiasticus 23, 8)