Fondare 827 Risultati per: Book Of Life
"I do not know how you came into existence in my womb; it was not I who gave you the breath of life, nor was it I who set in order the elements of which each of you is composed. (2 Maccabees 7, 22)
Therefore, since it is the Creator of the universe who shapes each man's beginning, as he brings about the origin of everything, he, in his mercy, will give you back both breath and life, because you now disregard yourselves for the sake of his law." Martyrdom of Mother and Sons (2 Maccabees 7, 23)
When the youth paid no attention to him at all, the king appealed to the mother, urging her to advise her boy to save his life. (2 Maccabees 7, 25)
My brothers, after enduring brief pain, have drunk of never-failing life, under God's covenant, but you, by the judgment of God, shall receive just punishments for your arrogance. (2 Maccabees 7, 36)
Like my brothers, I offer up my body and my life for our ancestral laws, imploring God to show mercy soon to our nation, and by afflictions and blows to make you confess that he alone is God. (2 Maccabees 7, 37)
keeping before their eyes the lawless outrage perpetrated by the Gentiles against the holy Place and the affliction of the humiliated city, as well as the subversion of their ancestral way of life. (2 Maccabees 8, 17)
(There was also Eleazar.) After reading to them from the holy book and giving them the watchword, "The Help of God," he himself took charge of the first division and joined in battle with Nicanor. (2 Maccabees 8, 23)
As a result, he was accused before Eupator by the King's Friends. In fact, on all sides he heard himself called a traitor for having abandoned Cyprus, which Philometor had entrusted to him, and for having gone over to Antiochus Epiphanes. Since he could not command the respect due to his high office, he ended his life by taking poison. (2 Maccabees 10, 13)
We understand that the Jews do not agree with our father's policy concerning Greek customs but prefer their own way of life. They are petitioning us to let them retain their own customs. (2 Maccabees 11, 24)
Timothy himself fell into the hands of the men under Dositheus and Sosipater; but with great cunning, he asked them to spare his life and let him go, because he had in his power the parents and relatives of many of them, and could make these suffer. (2 Maccabees 12, 24)
He urged him to marry and have children; so Judas married, settled down, and shared the common life. (2 Maccabees 14, 25)
In the early days of the revolt, he had been convicted of Judaism, and had risked body and life in his ardent zeal for it. (2 Maccabees 14, 38)
