Znaleziono 616 Wyniki dla: Good Works
Little enough it liked him to bring an ill name on his fellow-citizens; yet common good of the Jewish folk he must needs have in mind; (2 Maccabees 4, 5)
and Menelaus was as good as lost. What did he? With the promise of a great bribe he secured the good word of Ptolemy, son of Dorymenes;✻ (2 Maccabees 4, 45)
No wonder if the prayer was on all men’s lips, good not ill such high visions might portend. (2 Maccabees 5, 4)
chastisement that fell on the people, city must rue, and anon share its good fortune. He, the omnipotent, the ruler of all, would leave Jerusalem forlorn in his anger, would raise her to heights of glory, his anger once appeased. (2 Maccabees 5, 20)
Let me take leave of life with a good grace, as best suits my years, (2 Maccabees 6, 27)
And he answered in good round Hebrew,✻ eat he would not; whereupon he, in his turn, suffered like the first. (2 Maccabees 7, 8)
Wait but a little, and good proof thou shalt have of his sovereign power, such torment thee and thine awaits. (2 Maccabees 7, 17)
And when this was done, they made public intercession, beseeching the Lord, that was so merciful, to be reconciled with his servants for good and all. (2 Maccabees 8, 29)
Despair I will not; there is good hope yet of my recovery. (2 Maccabees 9, 22)
So, in good heart, they set out together, and before they left Jerusalem a vision came to them; of a rider that went before them in white array, with armour of gold, brandishing his spear. (2 Maccabees 11, 8)
Yet good sense he lacked not; great loss he had sustained, and, let the Hebrews continue to rely for aid upon divine Omnipotence, he saw there was no conquering them. So he wrote, (2 Maccabees 11, 13)
As for Machabaeus, he consented to what Lysias asked, having no thought but for the common good; and the written terms he proposed to Lysias in the Jewish people’s name received the royal assent. (2 Maccabees 11, 15)
