Fondare 377 Risultati per: Sacred Money
The Gentiles filled the temple with debauchery and revelry; they amused themselves with prostitutes and had intercourse with women even in the sacred court. They also brought into the temple things that were forbidden, (2 Maccabees 6, 4)
They also seized the money of those who had come to buy them as slaves. When they had pursued the enemy for some time, (2 Maccabees 8, 25)
While celebrating the victory in their ancestral city, they burned both those who had set fire to the sacred gates and Callisthenes, who had taken refuge in a little house; so he received the reward his wicked deeds deserved. (2 Maccabees 8, 33)
he would adorn with the finest offerings the holy temple which he had previously despoiled; he would restore all the sacred vessels many times over; and would provide from his own revenues the expenses required for the sacrifices. (2 Maccabees 9, 16)
they destroyed the altars erected by the Gentiles in the marketplace and the sacred enclosures. (2 Maccabees 10, 2)
But some of the men in Simon's force who were money lovers let themselves be bribed by some of the men in the towers; on receiving seventy thousand drachmas, they allowed a number of them to escape. (2 Maccabees 10, 20)
When Maccabeus was told what had happened, he assembled the rulers of the people and accused those men of having sold their kinsmen for money by setting their enemies free to fight against them. (2 Maccabees 10, 21)
But under the tunic of each of the dead they found amulets sacred to the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbids the Jews to wear. So it was clear to all that this was why these men had been slain. (2 Maccabees 12, 40)
Encouraged by Judas' noble words, which had power to instill valor and stir young hearts to courage, the Jews determined not to delay, but to charge gallantly and decide the issue by hand-to-hand combat with the utmost courage, since their city and its temple with the sacred vessels were in danger. (2 Maccabees 15, 17)
A bag of money he took with him, not till the full moon will he return home." (Proverbs 7, 20)
Rashly to pledge a sacred gift is a trap for a man, or to regret a vow once made. (Proverbs 20, 25)
The covetous man is never satisfied with money, and the lover of wealth reaps no fruit from it; so this too is vanity. (Ecclesiastes 5, 9)
