Sentences with phrase «eunuchs put»

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So long as the choice is put in these terms, it would be difficult to do other than to choose to be a political eunuch in order to become a servant in the Kingdom of God.

They laugh because they are in on the secret: that they serve a God who uses indentured eunuchs to change the course of history, orphan girls to reverse the decisions of kings, and rebellious pagan queens to put it all in motion.

Though Westerners were first scandalized by their omnipresence in society, «their sweet chanting,» as one Western observer put it on a visit to Constantinople in the twelfth century, «the mingling of the voices, the heavier [male] with the light [eunuchs»], softened the hearts of the Franks.