Sentences with phrase «followed years in the wilderness»

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If they had followed God into the promised land, they would not have had to spend 40 years wandering in the wilderness.

Following the method of typological interpretation, 11 which saw Old Testament events as prefiguring New Testament ones, the 40 years that the children of Israel spent wandering in the wilderness of Sinai were interpreted as a figure of Christ's 40 days.

he asks Moses, and he lets only Caleb and Joshua, who followed him fully, into the land; he says all the others shall fall in the wilderness, and he tells them their hapless children shall wander... 40 years, and bear your whoredoms.

But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.

The small gaming studio team of Campo Santo burst onto the scene the other year with «Firewatch,» a celebrated first - person mystery game set in a 1980s forested wilderness and following a widower and lone fire lookout trying to solve...

Winner of the Directing Award at Sundance 2015 for first - timer Robert Eggers, this atmospheric thriller follows a devout family living in the wilderness of 1630 New England (60 years before the Salem witch trials) who fall victim to paranoia and superstition.

This is a story set in the years immediately following the Civil War in and around the state of Arkansas and the adjacent wilderness, shot in stark photography by the master cinematographer and Coen collaborator Roger Deakins.

From the South Bronx to Singapore, journalist Emily Voigt follows the trail of the fish, ultimately embarking on a years - long quest to find the arowana in the wild, venturing deep into some of the last remaining tropical wildernesses on earth.