Fondare 1054 Risultati per: Great Commission
Yet good sense he lacked not; great loss he had sustained, and, let the Hebrews continue to rely for aid upon divine Omnipotence, he saw there was no conquering them. So he wrote, (2 Maccabees 11, 13)
As for Gorgias, one Dositheus, a great warrior that was in Bacenor’s company of horse, kept close on his heels and would have taken him alive; but one of the Thracian horsemen fell upon him and cut off his arm at the shoulder, so Gorgias escaped safe to Maresa. (2 Maccabees 12, 35)
It was in the hundred and forty-ninth year news came to Judas that Antiochus Eupator was marching on Judaea in great force. (2 Maccabees 13, 1)
Here was great peril, they should be deprived at one blow of law, of country, and of sanctuary; would he allow blaspheming Gentiles to lord it again over his people, that had but now won a little breathing-space? (2 Maccabees 13, 11)
And first he would deliver an attack upon Bethsura, a fortress of the Jews, but ever he was thrown back and repulsed with great loss, (2 Maccabees 13, 19)
Thus did he try conclusions with Judas, and had the worst of it; news came to him besides that Philip, whom he had left in charge at Antioch, was levying revolt against him. So, in great consternation of mind, he must needs throw himself on the mercy of the Jews, submitting under oath to the just terms they imposed on him. In token of this reconciliation, he offered sacrifice, paying the temple much reverence and offering gifts there; (2 Maccabees 13, 23)
Vile accusations, that threw Demetrius into a great taking of fury; he wrote to Nicanor, he was very ill content with the peace made, and would have Machabaeus sent to Antioch in chains without more ado. (2 Maccabees 14, 27)
Here was Nicanor left in great confusion of mind; it went against the grain with him to cancel the treaty with Judas, that had nothing wronged him, (2 Maccabees 14, 28)
And when this great company set about to force an entry into his dwelling, breaking down the door and calling out for firebrands, cut off from all escape, what did Razias? He thrust a sword into his own body, (2 Maccabees 14, 41)
Then he was ware of another, a man of great age and reverence, nothing about him but was most worshipful; (2 Maccabees 15, 13)
doomed by his own incontinence, by his own great folly bemused. (Proverbs 5, 23)
Wilt thou gather in harvest time, a son well schooled? Or sleep the summer round, to thy father’s great shame? (Proverbs 10, 5)
