Fondare 364 Risultati per: Divine Order
the Lord’s favour is for those who fear him, and put their trust in his divine mercy. (Psalms 146, 11)
children be left uncircumcised, and their innocent lives contaminated with rites unclean, abominable; till the law should be forgotten, and the divine precepts fashioned anew. (1 Maccabees 1, 51)
Many there were, traitors to the divine law, that took their part, and much mischief they did, (1 Maccabees 1, 55)
never a copy of the divine law but was torn up and burned; (1 Maccabees 1, 59)
Part of the king’s army was drawn up on the heights, part on the level plain; warily they came on and in good order; (1 Maccabees 6, 40)
Then, in the second month of the hundred and fifty-third year, came an order from Alcimus, the dividing wall of the temple’s inner court should be dismantled. The Prophets’ Building✻ he had already cleared away, and begun the dismantling, (1 Maccabees 9, 54)
great was the fear fell on all who listened; here was Jonathan commissioned to levy troops by the king’s own order! (1 Maccabees 10, 8)
The order was obeyed; the Syrian king, routed and captured, was brought before Arsaces, who put him safely in prison. (1 Maccabees 14, 3)
And here, in this same document, the story was told, how a divine oracle came to Jeremias, and he must needs go out, with tabernacle and ark to bear him company, to the very mountain Moses climbed long ago, when he had sight of God’s domain.✻ (2 Maccabees 2, 4)
So the appointed day came, when he would visit the temple and take order in the matter; what a stir there was then in the city! (2 Maccabees 3, 14)
All at once the spirit of God, the omnipotent, gave signal proof of its presence; daunted by the divine power they trembled and stood irresolute, these ministers of wrong. (2 Maccabees 3, 24)
Why, said he, some enemy of thine, some rebel that plots against the kingdom. Escape he with his life, I warrant he will come back to thee soundly beaten. Past doubt, there is some divine influence haunts yonder place; (2 Maccabees 3, 38)
