Fondare 458 Risultati per: Priest
Mischief in the bud, think you, when such alien Gentile ways came in? Nay, here was flower and fruit of it; and all through the unexampled villainy of one man, this Jason, that high priest was none, but rather an arch-traitor. (2 Maccabees 4, 13)
Back he came to Jerusalem, with the royal warrant to maintain him, yet all unworthy, with a tyrant’s cruel heart, more wild beast than high priest. (2 Maccabees 4, 25)
Now turn we to one Alcimus, that had been high priest formerly, but had wilfully incurred defilement in the days when folk began consorting with the Gentiles.✻ Little hope was left him, he should live to present himself at the altar again; (2 Maccabees 14, 3)
His orders were, to take Judas alive, to disperse his company, and of our glorious temple to make Alcimus high priest. (2 Maccabees 14, 13)
And what saw he? Onias, that had once been high priest, appeared to him; an excellent good man this, modest of mien, courteous, well-spoken, and from his boyhood schooled in all the virtues. With hands outstretched, he stood there praying for the Jewish folk. (2 Maccabees 15, 12)
this was a right granted in perpetuity, long as the heavens should last. His to perform the priest’s office, to echo God’s praise, to bless the people in his name. (Ecclesiasticus 45, 19)
A great priest was Simon, son of Onias;✻ in his day the house of God was repaired, to make the temple strong was his life’s task. (Ecclesiasticus 50, 1)
I took care to have men of credit for my witnesses, the priest Urias and Zacharias, son of Barachias. (Isaiah 8, 2)
One law for priest and people, for master and servant, for mistress and maid; for seller and buyer, for borrower and lender, for debtor and exactor of debts. (Isaiah 24, 2)
What, these too? These too fuddled with wine, bemused with their revelling? High revel they hold, priest and prophet together, till all are fuddled and sodden with wine, their wits bemused; what wonder if the true seer goes unrecognized, if justice is forgotten? (Isaiah 28, 7)
Strong I mean to make thee this day as fortified city, or pillar of iron, or wall of bronze, to meet king, prince, priest of Juda, and common folk all the country through; (Jeremiah 1, 18)
Never a priest to ask where I, the Lord, was; never a man of law but made a stranger of me, never a ruler but played me false, never a prophet but took Baal for his oracle, and had recourse to powers that were impotent. (Jeremiah 2, 8)
