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Sentence Examples The truthful and honest businessman will be in the company of the Prophets, the truthful people, and the martyrs on the Day of Judgement. What respect is there for the words of the Prophets, the Talmudic Sages or the rabbinic giants of today? Jesus' death and resurrection are grounded in Moses and Elijah, the Law and the Prophets, as part of God's plan of salvation. The doctrine of Moses and the Prophets, identical at bottom with that of the ancient Egyptians, also had its outward meaning and its veils. All this had been foreseen in the Psalmists and Prophets who were given revelations by God of how redemption would be accomplished. They feel that it is in reality the faith taught by the ancient Prophets, Abraham, David, Moses and Jesus. The implication is that the Almighty sent Prophets towards the Israelites in succession to remind them of the covenant mentioned before. Even without such extreme risk of discovery in a large city, Prophets could not walk on hallowed ground. Cathena protests that there must be some reason that the Prophets condemn sorcery. Therefore, we place books of the Torah on top of those of the Prophets and Writings, and not vice versa. Also, sackcloth was, and will be, in the case of the two witnesses, worn by some Prophets. Prophets of doom are forever predicting the eclipse of Thailand as an international tourist destination. However, to do so, she must fulfill a prophecy written about her in the Book of the Prophets. So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. That includes the books of the Prophets and Writings as well. They all believe in God and His angels, His scriptures, and His Prophets. He is blood-kin to the Psalmists and the Prophets of the Old Testament. Entering this place we are let down by our teachers, by our heroes and our Prophets. It is these differences which distinguish Torah from the Prophets. Horace therefore, Juvenal, and Persius were no Prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times. Show More Sentences The volume has been shaped by the feminist dialogic hermeneutic that underlies Carleen Mandolfo's 2007 Daughter Zion Talks Back to the Prophets. The Sadducees rejected the divine inspiration of the Prophets and the Writings, relying only on the Torah as divinely inspired. Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed. The Former Prophets are the books Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings. What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soile, but wise and faithfull labourers, to make a knowing people, a Nation of Prophets, of Sages, and of Worthies. New Age prophets exhort their sheeplike followers to carry out all sorts of home truths that beggar the imagination of any thinking person. The revolutionaries are the prophets and martyrs of social and political change. Then the people of the Qu'ran join with the People of the Book, admiring their common prophets. He has raised a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, as he promised through holy prophets long ago. What I don't believe however is that they were prophets or infallible or delivered from all possibilities of error in their judgment. Verse 35 even condemns them as the archetypal mischief-makers who ignored the admonitions of earlier prophets. Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. In fact, Larry, Moe, and Curly are the knuckleheaded prophets behind much of Keefe's philosophy. Nigeria probably had the highest density of prophets, apostles, bishops, mullahs, alhajis and sheiks in the whole world. But it was a religionless reading, and later he realized that the prophets cannot be understood apart from God. The priest and the Levite who pass by unconcerned are the Old Testament law and prophets. Facing the altar, the reredos overwhelm the viewer's vision with rows upon rows of imposing carved saints and prophets. His inspired perspective has animated prophets and artists and dreamers down through the centuries. This is evident in the lives of the prophets, John the Baptist, the Apostles and the Lord Jesus Christ himself. Show More Sentences In the apostolic era many women are mentioned as apostles, leaders of house churches, prophets, deacons, and so on. We Americans are apostles of the Fast World, the prophets of the free market and high priest of high tech. They are the words of the martyrs, martyrdom being the frequent fate of prophets. Priests, seers and prophets, witches and medicine men were in a strong position to inaugurate their own system of extraction. Similarly, the great sages and seers, prophets and avatars also are sources for determining beneficial karma. I have learned a deal of what I know about the resourcefulness of my own language from the prophets. The Red Stick losses were, according to the Americans, thirty-three, including one of Tecumseh's Shawnee prophets and twelve African Americans. The men encountered and killed three more Shawnee prophets left by Tecumseh. In Mark's account of the Transfiguration Jesus is set alongside the great prophets. Hadn't he come back, the sot turned from his sack, chiding them with Nehemiah, Jonah, minor prophets? By dinner time I've memorized the themes and meanings of the names of all the minor prophets, as well as significant scriptures in each. Habakkuk, the eighth of the twelve minor prophets, is merely three chapters long but powerful in its theology. In 1512-13 Raphael painted above the entrance arch of the Chigi chapel in S. Maria del Popolo a fresco with sibyls and prophets. Looking on are the prophets and sibyls, the mysterious seers of man's tragedy. Thus, monastics are prophets of the second coming not primarily through their words but through their total existence. Quite different from that of other prophets, Kafka's work has about it an unceremonious assurance. While in the past the word of God was mediated through the prophets, now God has given direct and unmediated communication by the Son. A country of politicians, natural leaders, would-be prophets or gods would be very difficult to govern. Pundits, bookmakers, soothsayers and prophets of doom were duly confounded. They can be described as visionaries, revolutionaries, radicals, liberals, nonconformists, outsiders, insurgents, prophets, pathfinders. Show More Sentences The womanist values women as spiritual leaders and prophets as well as teachers and mothers. Environmentalists are often seen as prophets of doom, and nobody much likes or believes Cassandras. It is a scene of human depravity, worthy of description by the Hebrew prophets. It was through clever interpretation of these signs that these oracles and prophets were able to frequently predict future events. That was the charisma of divine gift that endowed for a time warriors, prophets, and even political leaders. If the profs and prophets reckon the balloon's going up, you can guarantee it's not hot air. Jesus and the other prophets in the Old and New Testaments received their visions and messages through clairvoyance and clairaudience. To the Fabians, Morris was, of course, was one of the great social prophets and Whitman the great singer. So the prophets are split neatly between impending economic doom and postponed blight. The ancient prophets apparently looked toward an historical climax they expected to occur visibly, on this earth. They were filled with a kind of righteous indignation that characterized Old Testament prophets like Amos, Isaiah, and Jeremiah! Since then, Almighty God sent several prophets and revelations, the last in this chain being Prophet Muhammad and the Qur'an. Like many other Old Testament witnesses and prophets, Jacob is shown struggling with God and not giving up. For him, artists at their best are like Romantic heroes engaged with insurmountable crises or like prophets of a gauzy future. These historians have set themselves up as prophets blessed with a vision denied to ordinary Australians. Throughout human history there had always been self-proclaimed prophets who have predicted the end of the world. Then, just as it seemed the prophets were predicting a dire season for Melrose, the Greenyards men produced arguably the best try of the game. Worse yet, we play prophets, trying to predict what might or might not be going on in the minds of complex men and what might happen as a result. He may be calling us to be intercessors, evangelists, advocates for the poor, healers of the sick, prophets to the world. The prophets of the Temple period opposed paganism with all of their ethical fire and passion. Show More Sentences It is even more intolerantly communal in its attitude to the prophets and reformers within its own fold. These are supported by small round-arched and fluted flying buttresses topped by figurines of scroll-bearing prophets. He was one of those prophets whose wisdom is posthumously discovered in an attic of trash. Then one day, a hero rose to challenge the manager in an epic that the prophets foresaw thousands of years ago. I say this because I don't know of any other religion that has been able to foretell the future through prophets. Exiled daemons are reincarnated into all sorts of living forms, finally coming to be as prophets, poets, physicians, and leaders among men. If someone from among them was raised to heaven, it cannot stop the following prophets from preaching these beliefs. Before Owen there were millennarians and utopians, prophets and putschists. He also denounced the creation of any graven images, whether of himself or of the other prophets. Either no one listens, or you get all carried away and proclaim yourselves as prophets, and it all ends in tears and fireballs. That was how the prophets of doom predicted the end of the world at midnight on the millennium. But as we know, both profits and prophets in our own country are liable to be dishonoured, however well disposed. Indeed, one remarkable window portrays the four evangelists on the shoulders of the great prophets. Under the canopies on the one side are figures of the four great prophets, and on the other side figures of the four evangelists. I do not go all the way with the predictions of the far-seeing prophets of the information superhighway, nor would I wish to hype the value of the Net. Eventually, he argued, this is what in fact happened so that the prophets faced a dead externalism in religious practice and a mechanical routine in religious thought. They are likewise reproved and threatened for their dulness and stupidity, and unaptness to profit by the instructions which the prophets gave them in God's name. What is happening to the campaigning steamroller that was going to propel the new prophets of technocratic and meritocracy craving Labor into power? And like all prophets, he was under-appreciated by his country, his community, and his party for far too long. And like all successful prophets he would be heeded by the rich and the powerful, even if their own churches warned against foretelling the future. Show More Sentences Both are portrayed as prophets who proclaim a message from God. He cannot be called that, but through his austerity, bearing, unwavering commitment and unsparing frankness he brought to his times a hint of the prophets of yore. At first, the term Buffalo Commons was a lightning rod, attracting doomsday prophets and defenders of civilized life in small towns and rural areas across the Great Plains. If those in government allow themselves to be intimidated into neutrality because they harbour private peccadilloes, they will sell the pass to the prophets of moral nihilism. Liberally supported by Drummond, the new body developed a hierarchy of apostles, prophets, evangelists, and pastors, with deacons to superintend material needs. Modern scholars who deal with Israel's ancient political religion and the prophets who proclaimed its transformation are burdened with a scholarly spurious familiarity. In the Old Testament, prophets regularly warned God's People against bowing down to the graven images of Baal that so entranced their Phoenician and Babylonian neighbors. Increased importance was placed on the divine rights and the infallibility of Shi'ite Imams and they were gradually elevated to the position of prophets. In contrast to the extremists, when moderate Muslims, and especially the Sufis, read the Qur'an, they understand that the accounts of the prophets are not just historical. Which of our revered and vastly over-paid technology prophets predicted that people would be able to earn money sending text messages from their mobile phones? Can it, as the prophets suggest, expiate our sins and bring us closer to God? Those modern-day prophets, the health and nutrition experts, reckon that getting five portions of fruit and vegetables under your belt should be as easy as pie. Priests in Paris and self-proclaimed prophets in New England urged followers to appeal to God for deliverance from the weather. He who does not bring or teach apostolic doctrine ought not to be received by the Church which is built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets. The minor prophets were less lit up by pride, closer to hunger. They argue that the problem does not exist, or has been grossly exaggerated, and they call the reformers alarmists, fanatics, scaremongers, prophets of doom and so on. The thriving democracy conjured up by prophets of unification can quickly disintegrate into tribal war. On the other hand, the gathering of seers and sages, prophets and priests, conjurors and con men, was a strategic assemblage of those who wielded some degree of power. The Church is built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets and there are no apostles and prophets today nor is there any such thing as an apostolic succession. There are still those who refuse to believe the prophets of doom. Show More Sentences They pointed to a progressive development of the concept of holiness, noting that it was gradually moralized under the influence of the great prophets. Such swarms of prophets and rapturists have flown out of those hives in some ages. The three volumes cover in turn Genesis to Kings, Psalms to Chronicles, and Isaiah through the 12 minor prophets. Two-thirds of the stalls in which those priests sat still survive today, one set painted with the figures of prophets, one set with apostles. Weber has read one great slate of unhappiness, history as written by sects and prophets, millenarians, chiliasts, and televangelists. Ghosts often appear in the narrative as sentinels or prophets of things to come. In the ancient Gnostic sect of Manichaeism, the Buddha is listed among the prophets who preached the word of God before Mani. The prophetic and apostolic Scriptures are authentic as written by the prophets and apostles. These Praelectiones covered the minor prophets, Daniel, Jeremiah, Lamentations, and part of Ezekiel. The Septuagint organizes the minor prophets as twelve parts of one Book of Twelve. The epistles of John and Jude also warn of false teachers and prophets, as does the writer of the Book of Revelation and 1 John. Christ is seen to express his headship through the ascension ministries of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers. These Pentecostals are led by a hierarchy of living apostles, prophets, and other charismatic offices. Muslims believe that prophets are human and not divine, though some are able to perform miracles to prove their claim. In Part I, the Messiah's coming and the virgin birth are predicted by the Old Testament prophets. Is the super-intelligent, super-popular god known as the Flying Spaghetti Monster any match for the prophets of intelligent design? I dare say that Judaism's prophets, specifically those mentioned in the five books of Moses in the Torah, never existed. The daring anthropopathic imagery by which the prophets often represent God as chiding, upbraiding, threatening. Over the millennia God's chatted up plenty of patriarchs and minor prophets. They have a mantic power to know and reveal what is concealed in the future, a revelation they express in human language just as prophets do. Show More Sentences There is no doubt whatever that such souls were prophets, for the mission of prophethood is education, and these wondrous souls trained and educated mankind. Locomen, prophets who claim clairvoyance, tossed animal bones from magical gourds, reading the scattered patterns to gain a glimpse into tomorrow. Elijah defeated the prophets of Ba'al in his contest, notes Koyama, but then in his overzealousness for the LORD he had the 450 prophets of Ba'al slaughtered. Life loves sightless painters, visionless prophets, and crippled surgeons. The tract presents a vision in which the conjunctions of the superior planets signal stages in the history of the world and announce in particular the birth of the prophets. Unlike the Irish texts, the Welsh term commonly seen as referring to the druids, dryw, was used to refer purely to prophets and not to sorcerers or pagan priests. Ye shall not thynke that I am come to disanull the lawe, or the prophets. In the case of the prophets, this preparedness is a preparedness to exchange humanity for pure angelicality, which is the highest rank of spiritualia. Examples from Classical Literature The universalism of the Prophets was inadequate for the consolidating of a nation. He therefore set about translating the Prophets on his own account, in order to be able to quote any desired passage in Chaldaic. The Prophets, the Hagiographa, and the Apocrypha were translated at various times during the succeeding three hundred years. His publications include commentaries on the Prophets and Hagiographa, and lectures and addresses on theological subjects. The former is reputed, but without actual proof, to have been the author of a Chaldaic translation of the Prophets. To represent the likenesses of the Prophets is to belittle them inevitably and sacrilegiously. Prophets and prophetesses fasted at Miletus, colophon, and other places. The essays contained in this volume are loosely bound by an interest in identifying literary works in the Pentateuch and the Former Prophets. The twenty-five major categories of documents are arranged according to the Pentateuch, Former Prophets, Latter Prophets, and Writings. It thus has a wide distribution in the Hebrew Scriptures, being used in the Torah, the Prophets and the Writings. Porthos, my friend, you know I am descended on the father's side from the Prophets and on the mother's from the Sybils, and that I only speak in parables and riddles. Human beings have, since the beginning of the world, stoned their prophets. This change of view in regard to the Being of Jahveh coincided with a no less marked alteration in the character of His prophets. The author of this combined text was guided by the feelings and views of the prophets. Ether was the last of the Jaredite prophets, and witnessed the destruction of the race. This statue shows a doubt and hesitation which did not affect Donatello when making the little prophets for the mandorla door. I had got to learn as much as any of the prophets and tipsters, and yet I could never manage to turn up trumps. And the prophets, in spite of their virulency, produced the highest forms of artistic beauty. Birds are admirable weather prophets, and from their number and obtrusiveness have furnished many examples. Many expressions in the prophets are hyperbolical or metaphorical, and must not be taken literally. Show More Sentences Achab believing his false prophets, rather than Micheas, is slain in Ramoth Galaad. The prophets of the new blessing, Wordsworth and Coleridge, I knew nothing of. The style of the imprecatory psalms and the denunciating prophets is out of date. Then, the right of adding to the prescribed forms is restricted to the prophets, as in the didache. There was danger that the prophets would be brought into disrepute and contempt. Since King David, Allah has not thought of endowing his prophets with musical talent. Let not Moses nor the prophets speak to me, but speak thou rather, who art the Inspirer and enlightener of all. Verily he opened his mouth to the evangelic lore, who in the old law was wont to open the mouths of the prophets. By the scripture, is understood the pentateuch, portions from the prophets, and Hagiographa. The Halacha continued the instruction of the prophets, as the Hag195gada fostered the spirit of the psalmists. He was going to preach at Zwickau, the birthplace of the pretended prophets. That was why the prophets, from Samuel on so frowned upon Canaanitish revelries. She makes very light of gospels and prophets, as one who has a great many more to produce and no excess of time to spare on any one. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. The pre-exilic prophets, or those who prophesied before the exile. What other means of rapid transit did the prophets foretell? The Granger and the Populist were prophets of this reform movement. Finally, Donatello made two busts of prophets for the mandorla door. Like Nahum and all the greater prophets, Jesus lived among suffering people. War prophets and medicine men, waw keen, were revered as demi-gods. Show More Sentences Luther at length agreed to have a conference with the prophets of Zwickau. Darwin was the greatest of prophets in the most evolutionary of worlds. I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets, Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. All this was incomprehensible, and then, with the tenacity peculiar to prophets of bad news, the failure was put off until the end of September. Did He pretend to exalt Himself above Abraham and the prophets? Nor do heroes, saints, demigods, and prophets alone comprise the whole roll of our order. All the sinners punished here, including figures like Amphiaraus, Tiresias, Aruns, and Eurypylus, have been self-proclaimed prophets, but false ones, in their various ways. I wouldn't be used to such grand people as the patriarchs and prophets, and I would be sheepish and tongue-tied in their company, and mighty glad to get out of it. Find more words! 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