Fondare 2332 Risultati per: Holy Land
Plant thy people in thy holy place, as Moses said." (2 Maccabees 1, 29)
as he promised through the law. For we have hope in God that he will soon have mercy upon us and will gather us from everywhere under heaven into his holy place, for he has rescued us from great evils and has purified the place. (2 Maccabees 2, 18)
and the appearances which came from heaven to those who strove zealously on behalf of Judaism, so that though few in number they seized the whole land and pursued the barbarian hordes, (2 Maccabees 2, 21)
While the holy city was inhabited in unbroken peace and the laws were very well observed because of the piety of the high priest Onias and his hatred of wickedness, (2 Maccabees 3, 1)
People also hurried out of their houses in crowds to make a general supplication because the holy place was about to be brought into contempt. (2 Maccabees 3, 18)
So Jason, who after supplanting his own brother was supplanted by another man, was driven as a fugitive into the land of Ammon. (2 Maccabees 4, 26)
And so those who had spoken for the city and the villages and the holy vessels quickly suffered the unjust penalty. (2 Maccabees 4, 48)
Not content with this, Antiochus dared to enter the most holy temple in all the world, guided by Menelaus, who had become a traitor both to the laws and to his country. (2 Maccabees 5, 15)
He took the holy vessels with his polluted hands, and swept away with profane hands the votive offerings which other kings had made to enhance the glory and honor of the place. (2 Maccabees 5, 16)
Antiochus was elated in spirit, and did not perceive that the Lord was angered for a little while because of the sins of those who dwelt in the city, and that therefore he was disregarding the holy place. (2 Maccabees 5, 17)
But the Lord did not choose the nation for the sake of the holy place, but the place for the sake of the nation. (2 Maccabees 5, 19)
So Antiochus carried off eighteen hundred talents from the temple, and hurried away to Antioch, thinking in his arrogance that he could sail on the land and walk on the sea, because his mind was elated. (2 Maccabees 5, 21)
