Fondare 2856 Risultati per: Sin
Making an early start, they marched into the plain, to find a large army opposing them, both infantry and cavalry; there was, however, a stream-bed in between. (1 Maccabees 16, 5)
He divided his army into two, with the cavalry in the centre and the infantry on either flank, as the opposing cavalry was very numerous. (1 Maccabees 16, 7)
'Since we have been rescued by God from great danger, we give him great thanks for championing our cause against the king, (2 Maccabees 1, 11)
Moses had said, "Because the sacrifice for sin had not been eaten, it was burnt instead." (2 Maccabees 2, 11)
'Since we are about to celebrate the purification, we now write, requesting you to observe the same days. (2 Maccabees 2, 16)
as he has promised in the Law, will surely, as our hope is in him, be swift to show us mercy and gather us together from everywhere under heaven to the holy place, since he has rescued us from great evils and has purified it.' (2 Maccabees 2, 18)
all this, already related in five books by Jason of Cyrene, we shall attempt to condense into a single work. (2 Maccabees 2, 23)
comparable to the exacting task of someone organising a banquet, whose aim is to satisfy a variety of tastes. Nevertheless, for the sake of rendering a general service, we remain glad to endure this drudgery, (2 Maccabees 2, 27)
To make the subject his own, to explore its by-ways, to be meticulous about details, is the business of the original historian, (2 Maccabees 2, 30)
even to the extent that Seleucus king of Asia defrayed from his own revenues all the expenses arising out of the sacrificial liturgy. (2 Maccabees 3, 3)
And while the high priest was performing the rite of expiation, the same young men again appeared to Heliodorus, wearing the same apparel and, standing beside him, said, 'Be very grateful to Onias the high priest, since it is for his sake that the Lord has granted you your life. (2 Maccabees 3, 33)
'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)
