Fondare 776 Risultati per: Return To Egypt
This done, he left them, but threatening he would return, and leave none alive in Joppe. (2 Maccabees 12, 7)
we are all making for the same goal; of earth we were made, and to earth we must return. (Ecclesiastes 3, 20)
How ill it had gone with their adversaries in Egypt, that thirst of theirs in the desert plainly shewed them; (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 9)
For Israel, only a test of their faith; only a father’s correction; for Egypt, as from a king, stern scrutiny and stern doom. (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 11)
wondered at Moses, whom their insolence had long ago disinherited, when they exposed him with the other children. Thirst, that had been Egypt’s enemy, had no terrors for the just. (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 15)
But very ill is that toil bestowed, when he uses the same clay to fashion some god that is no god. Bethink thee, potter, that it is but a little while since thou thyself wast fashioned out of the same earth, and ere long, when the lease of thy soul falls due, to that earth thou shalt return. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 8)
Though hunger drove them to food, the men of Egypt turned away with loathing from the necessaries they craved, so foul the sight of the frogs that came to punish them. Thy own people should go wanting for a little, only so as to prepare them for the dainties that would follow. (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 3)
the uplifted arm that plagued impious Egypt, where thou wast treated as a stranger. Strange, indeed, to that country were the rains that hunted them down, the fierce hail-storms; the fire, too, that wasted them. (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 16)
In Egypt, snow and ice had resisted the fire, never melting; plain it was that this fire, which shone out amid the hailstones and the rain, was in alliance with them to burn up and destroy the enemy’s harvest. (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 22)
It was their purpose, besides, to slay all the children born of that holy stock; but one child survived exposure and lived to rebuke them; through him thou didst destroy Egypt’s own children in their thousands, and drown its assembled host in the rushing waves. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 5)
Such, too, were their memories of Egypt itself; memories of the land that bred lice and could breed no beasts else, the river that could spawn frogs, yet never a fish lived there. (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 10)
No wonder blindness fell on them, as upon the men of Sodom at Lot’s door! But in Egypt the darkness was so bewildering that a man could not find his way through the doors of his own house. (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 16)
