Sentences with phrase «exiled people»

Competing teams will include the exiled people of Tibet, the Zimbabwean region of Matabeleland, and, erm, the tax haven of the Isle of Man.

Now Mark believes that he gets to decide that Esther is a whore, that SHE is the problem, rather than the pagan king who basically owns her and her exiled people.

Today, Father Bazi lives with his exiled people in the Kurdish Autonomous Region of crumbling Iraq.

As Winner puts it, «Esther is also a story about exile, about being an exiled Jew, an exiled person of faith, and what it means to live in a place that is foreign, to live in a place where you are foreign, where you and your kinsman are aliens.

Not exact matches

Last week, the Global Times, a subsidiary of the Chinese Communist Party's official People's Daily, published an op - ed praising Facebook's decision to temporarily suspend the account of exiled writer Liao Yiwu for violating the sites» policy against nudity.

Bitcoin core no longer has people like Mike Hearn and Gavin Andersen because they were bullied, trolled, and exiled from the community.

Although disliking Jews go further back, such as their exile, one of the reasons is that the Pope made a rule that Christians can't loan money (but accepting a loan is ok) so Jews end up taking the job and so long as things are going well, people probably like jews because they received money (though they probably didn't like paying them back with interest).

The Old Testament narratives are stories about discovery, exodus - journey - arrival, exile - and - return, of faithfulness in the midst of or out of: success, failure, happiness, tragedy, relationships, disaster, or any blessing or any evil that people can foist on each other.

I believe that man is, by nature, an exile and will never be self - sufficient or complete on this earth; that his chances of happiness and virtue, here, remain more or less constant through the centuries and, generally speaking, are not much affected by the political and economic conditions in which he lives; that the balance of good and ill tends to revert to a norm; that sudden changes of physical condition are usually ill, and are advocated by the wrong people for the wrong reasons; that the intellectual communists of today have personal, irrelevant grounds for their antagonism to society, which they are trying to exploit.

Advocates find inspiration in the story of the Babylonian exile when God's people found themselves surrounded by a pagan culture.

In particular, they have reference to the oracles in the exilic and post-exilic prophets about the return of the exiles from Babylonia and the reconstitution of the people in Jerusalem and Judaea.

In many different ways and at many different times, Jesus indicated that He was the new temple; that in Him people could receive forgiveness from sins, access to God, and restoration from exile.

The fronds of the date palm, called lulavs, are waved during Sukkot, which celebrates the ancient wanderings of the Jewish people after their exile from Egypt.

«When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were building a temple for the LORD, the God of Israel... [they] set out to discourage the people of Judah and make them afraid to go on building».

The prophets of the Hebrew Scripture were concerned with understanding the fate that had befallen exiled Israel and their identity as God's people in the midst of so much hope and despair.

For Christians exile has been not only a condition forced upon a small group of people but a state into which everyone was called by God for their human maturation — a place of formation, where attitudes and motivations were molded by a community without earthly roots.

Diaspora and pilgrimages were not just part of the corporate memory of his people; they belonged to his own personal history, as Matthew's narratives of Jesus» exile in Egypt show (Matt.

At the time of the exile, some people believed that life in Jerusalem had been trivialized and emptied of meaning.

(Jeremiah 15:20) It is not strange, therefore, that when temple and altar were destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, and the exiles in Babylon, bereft of their sacrificial system, were in confusion, Jeremiah's faith was expressed in a message to them concerning personal prayer — anywhere, in any land, sacrifices or no sacrifices, the God of Israel was saying to his people, «Ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

Instead, both in the suffering of the Holocaust and in the triumphant Jewish return from exile, he saw the call of a radical new Christian task: «to see the Jews as God sees them, to love them as He loves them, to understand their place in the divine plan for Salvation according to the theological vocation of God's people.»

The Holy City had been invaded, the temple of Solomon destroyed, the city burned, and many of the people carried off into exile, leaving «the poorest of the land to be vine - dressers and plowmen» (II Kings 25:12).

Often I have thought about the people of Israel — mourning in lowly exile, waiting for the Messiah to release them from captivity.

The USSR exiled and killed religious persons merely for being religious and not accepting the state as the ultimate force in the world.

In that sense the novel sees the new conditions of exile as a fresh hegira, «emigration,» a new moral condition demanding a response somewhat analogous to the response of religious people to a revelation.

Whether Israel is exiled by Babylon or a modern people displaced, whether Rachel or a twentieth - century mother mourns for her children they need the same assurance that «your work shall be rewarded....

For the people of Palestine, suffering under the Roman regime, it must have been as hard to believe this as it is today in the United States of America for people struggling to achieve economic and political equality of opportunity, or as it is for the native people of Palestine or Vietnam who are exiled from their homes and dependent upon the scanty bounty of the United Nations and charitable organizations.

It was the hymnal of the temple that was rebuilt after the return of the Hebrews from exile in Babylon, and reflects the mature religious experience of the people.

The people became exiles in a foreign land.

People like you should have their citizenship revoked by exile or death.

Martyrs, near - martyrs, risk - takers and sufferers command our attention when they say they have seen the resurrected Lord, or led people on exodus or through exile, or been spit back into life by the great fish of illness.

From this verse we can then determine that flint meant black in a way that those who do not follow the counsel of the priest and were on such a level of «scratching and biting» as were the brothers of Nephi could receive a curse of being exiled from the people of God and a transformation would come on them which would make them look unpleasant to those who kept the commandments of God so they would not want to be a part of their communities.

The people of the United States became mere spectators as an array of ideological extremists, vested interests, and foreign operatives — including domestic neoconservatives, Ahmed Chalabi and his Iraqi exiles, the Israeli Lobby, the petroleum and automobile industries, warmongers and profiteers allied with the military - industrial complex, and the entrenched interests of the professional military establishment — essentially hijacked the government.

Consider the actual people who physically wrote the Bible: The ancient Jew: They did not go into Babylonian exile, for nothing!

One is the world of normalization, depicting disabled people not unlike ourselves, people who have been wronged by their unnecessary exile from ordinary life and who, therefore, deserve our support.

He lists the destruction of crops (Amos 1:3), the exile of people from their lands (v. 6), the breaking of treaties (v. 9), the lack of pity (v. U), the maintenance of perpetual feuds (v. 11), ripping up women with child (v. 13), dishonoring the dead (2:1).

Many scholars regard the figure of Jonah in this book as a symbolic representation of the people of Israel, and then the period of three days and three nights during which Jonah remained in the belly of the great fish represents the exile in which Israel was swallowed by Bel.

Their history as a people, from the time of the ancient Babylonian exile onwards, has been strongly marked by the theme of death and resurrection.

Jeremiah holds the earlier kings of Israel responsible for scattering the people in exile.

It describes a remarkable structure on which the God of Israel came down out of the north along the road which his people had taken in their mournful journey into captivity; and there he, too, came seeking his lonely, heartsick exiles.

Such local assemblies became the expression of Jewish communal life after the destruction of the monarchy, both in Palestine and among that section of the people who went into exile.

It is meant to help the scattered Jewish people come to terms with their identity and their faith when they are in exile, when they no longer have an independent homeland or temple.

I've discovered men and women around the world who love, people who throw open doors, who work for justice, who plant gardens in exile.

* The Old Testament is a collection of stories about discovery, exodus - journey - arrival, exile - and - return, of faithfulness in the midst of or out of: failure, tragedy, disaster, or any evil that people can foist on each other.

At the end of a unit on portions of scripture that involve the people of Israel's time of exile, a student once wrote, «The temple was the home of God's «name» and «glory,» although the exile allowed God to move around and be transcendent.»

Without that credibility of the prophetic oversimplification, the exiled Jews might have lost their identity as the people of God.

His God declared to a people in exile: «When you pass through the waters, I will be with you....

When the prophets railed at and rebuked their people, they nevertheless did so as committed members of those people, willing to join them in the exile of which they warned.

However, people in exile are not without spiritual resources.

«People have found no better thing than this to do for kings at their crowning and for criminals going to the scaffold; for armies in triumph or for a bride and bridegroom in a little country church; for the wisdom of a Parliament or for a sick old woman afraid to die... tremulously, by an old monk on the fiftieth anniversary of his vows; furtively by an exiled bishop who had hewn timber all day in a prison camp; gorgeously for the canonization of St Joan of Arc.»

you can select your god and praise your god but when you start using your god to attempt to exile or hold - down another group of people then you are no better than the southern baptists that didn't want equal rights for women or people of different ethicity.