Fondare 694 Risultati per: Hiding Place
He also added that it was entirely out of the question that an injustice should be done to those who had put their trust in the sanctity of the place and in the inviolable majesty of a Temple venerated throughout the entire world. (2 Maccabees 3, 12)
People rushed headlong from the houses, intent on making public supplication because of the indignity threatening the holy place. (2 Maccabees 3, 18)
the Jews blessed the Lord who had miraculously glorified his own holy place. And the Temple, which a little while before had been filled with terror and commotion, now overflowed with joy and gladness at the manifestation of the almighty Lord. (2 Maccabees 3, 30)
'If you have some enemy or anyone disloyal to the state, send him there, and you will get him back well flogged, if he survives at all, since some peculiarly divine power attaches to the holy place. (2 Maccabees 3, 38)
He who has his dwelling in heaven watches over the place and defends it, and he strikes down and destroys those who come to harm it.' (2 Maccabees 3, 39)
On receiving clear evidence to this effect, Onias retired to a place of sanctuary at Daphne near Antioch and then taxed him with it. (2 Maccabees 4, 33)
So many carcases he had thrust out to lie unburied; now he himself had none to mourn him, no funeral rites, no place in the tomb of his ancestors. (2 Maccabees 5, 10)
with impure hands he seized the sacred vessels; with impious hands he seized the offerings presented by other kings for the aggrandisement, glory and dignity of the holy place. (2 Maccabees 5, 16)
Holding so high an opinion of himself, Antiochus did not realise that the Lord was temporarily angry at the sins of the inhabitants of the city, hence his unconcern for the holy place. (2 Maccabees 5, 17)
The Lord, however, had not chosen the people for the sake of the holy place, but the holy place for the sake of the people; (2 Maccabees 5, 19)
and so the holy place itself, having shared the disasters that befell the people, in due course also shared their good fortune; having been abandoned by the Almighty in his anger, once the great Sovereign was placated it was reinstated in all its glory. (2 Maccabees 5, 20)
and to profane the Temple in Jerusalem and dedicate it to Olympian Zeus, and the one on Mount Gerizim to Zeus, Patron of Strangers, as the inhabitants of the latter place had requested. (2 Maccabees 6, 2)
