Sentences with phrase «ancient man came»

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Origen, the fecund Christian teacher from ancient Alexandria, said, «Genuine transformation of life comes from reading the ancient Scriptures, learning who the just men and women were and imitating them.»

Behold there came with the clouds of heaven one like unto a son of man [i.e. a manlike figure, in contrast to the beasts]; and he came even to the Ancient of Days, and they brought him near before Him.

Whereas ancient man attempted to bring some influence to bear upon the unseen world by taking his offerings to the holy place where he believed the gods to dwell, the prophets proclaimed that YHWH had come to man where he was.

0 wonder of wonders that none can unfold The Ancient of days as an hour or two old, The Maker of all things is made of the earth, Man as worshipped by Angels, and God comes to birth.18

We have another heritage, however, springing from the great Hebrew prophets, coming to its fulfillment in Christ, gathering up the best of ancient Greece, a heritage of faith in God and man, of humaneness and goodwill.

Whereas ancient man felt himself to be at the mercy of capricious forces seated beyond his control in an unseen world, Israel came to recognize that man himself has been given power and responsibility to act decisively, and that it is on his own moral decisions that his life and destiny largely depend.

It comes as no surprise that ancient men were aware of their geography and their history, so it's no surprise when ancient cities and people are shown to have existed.

One of the ancient prophets — the same, indeed, who spoke of the «king coming in gentleness» — also drew a picture of a good time to come when men of all nations will go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts; and on that day the prophet adds, «there shall no more be a trader in the house of the Lord of hosts,» 11 Jesus was offering symbolically a fulfillment of that prophecy, in line with his basic affirmation that the kingdom of God is here.

To short - circuit that long argument, I would say that it comes down to the ancient belief that men and women are different.

I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him.

In the succeeding chapters we shall examine the distinctive marks of the Judeo - Christian heritage, as they come to light when the Bible is studied against the background of the mythological world of ancient man.

An American poet (F. Bland Tucker) has translated part of the ancient Christian document known as the Epistle to Diognetus, using these words: «He [God] came to win men by good - will, for force is not of God.»

The more I studied ancient cultures the more I came to understand that ALL religions were born of men at some point in history.

The prayerful cry, «Not mine, but thy will be done,» has come from the lips of Christian as well as non-Christian men of prayer, ancient philosophers, and the pious men of Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim religions.

The Rector of the new University already knew Martin well; Staupitz had persuaded Dr Trutvetter a reliable man who had had enough, after twenty - five years, of the difficulties always generated in such a Complex ancient foundation as Erfurt was, to come over to teach at Wittenberg.

The same line of thought, carried a little further, brought the author of the Book of Daniel to describe how thrones were placed and the Ancient of Days seated, with a fiery stream flowing out in front of him, while millions of ministrants stood in his presence or performed his bidding; then «there came with the clouds of heaven one like a son of man, and there was given him dominion and glory and kingdom, that all peoples and nations should serve him» (Dan.

All accept the hypothesis that there existed in ancient Judaism the conception of the Son of man as a pre-existent heavenly being whose coming as judge would be a feature of the eschatological drama, which we discussed and, in this definite form, rejected above.

It is one of the most evocative ancient corpses ever discovered: a 46 - year - old man with an arrow wound in his left shoulder, whose body and belongings came to rest in a high mountain pass some 5,000 years ago.

But comparing the mix of different forms of lead, or isotopes, in the ax with that in copper ore from present - day deposits across much of Europe indicated that the ancient man's blade came from Southern Tuscany.

Now, using ancient DNA from the bones of the man and 13 others buried alongside him, scientists have come to a surprising conclusion — elite status passed down the maternal line, from mothers to their sons and daughters.

Ask someone to describe what «ancient man» looked like, and most people will probably come up with something that looks like that Geico caveman.

If you would have told man in the ancient days that it would come to this, he never would have believed it.

Every year, the tribe's young men are brought to the mountains of the Eastern Cape to participate in an ancient coming - of - age ritual.

Despite her skepticism and track record, she is still approached by a man named Doug Blackwell (Morrissey, Basic Instinct 2), who wants her to come check out his small town of Haven, LA, where they are beginning to experience phenomena akin to those found in the Biblical ten plagues of Ancient Egypt, starting off with the river turning red and killing all of the fish.

With the twins in tow, Sowil sets off on a journey to find his father, whom he has never met, believing his power to use the ancient runes came from the man.

Young adult fantasy novel, companion to The Forgetting (2016), about a city where memories are wiped every 12 years, and about a man from Earth who's come in search of this ancient social experiment.

Penck's signature pictographic style, which features glyphlike stick men and other motifs recalling cave art or ancient murals, came to have a distinct impact on younger American artists such as Keith Haring and Jean - Michel Basquiat.