Fondare 407 Risultati per: Heaven
I have now grown old, but you, by the mercy of Heaven, have come to man's estate. Take my place and my brother's, and go out and fight for our nation; and may the help of Heaven be with you!" (1 Maccabees 16, 3)
Priests prostrated themselves in their priestly robes before the altar, and loudly begged him in heaven who had given the law about deposits to keep the deposits safe for those who had made them. (2 Maccabees 3, 15)
all of them with hands raised toward heaven, making supplication. (2 Maccabees 3, 20)
Since you have been scourged by Heaven, proclaim to all men the majesty of God's power." When they had said this, they disappeared. (2 Maccabees 3, 34)
He who has his dwelling in heaven watches over that Place and protects it, and he strikes down and destroys those who come to harm it." (2 Maccabees 3, 39)
as he spoke these noble words: "It was from Heaven that I received these; for the sake of his laws I disdain them; from him I hope to receive them again." (2 Maccabees 7, 11)
But you, wretch, vilest of all men! do not, in your insolence, concern yourself with unfounded hopes, as you raise your hand against the children of Heaven. (2 Maccabees 7, 34)
and the time of the battle in Babylonia against the Galatians, when only eight thousand Jews fought along with four thousand Macedonians; yet when the Macedonians were hard pressed, the eight thousand routed one hundred and twenty thousand and took a great quantity of booty, because of the help they received from Heaven. (2 Maccabees 8, 20)
Overcome with anger, he planned to make the Jews suffer for the injury done by those who had put him to flight. Therefore he ordered his charioteer to drive without stopping until he finished the journey. Yet the condemnation of Heaven rode with him, since he said in his arrogance, "I will make Jerusalem the common graveyard of the Jews as soon as I arrive there." (2 Maccabees 9, 4)
Shortly before, he had thought that he could reach the stars of heaven, and now, no one could endure to transport the man because of this intolerable stench. (2 Maccabees 9, 10)
If you and your children are well and your affairs are going as you wish, I thank God very much, for my hopes are in heaven. (2 Maccabees 9, 20)
With these words he went away. The priests stretched out their hands toward heaven, calling upon the unfailing defender of our nation in these words: (2 Maccabees 14, 34)
