Sentences with phrase «from ancient days»

Turmeric is an excellent anti-oxidants used from the ancient days.

But you, O Bethlehem of Ephrathah, who are one of the little clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to rule in Israel whose origin is from of old, from ancient days.

This is the point of the famous passage in Micah 5:2: «But you, 0 Bethlehem... from you shall come forth one who is to rule in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient days.»

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For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.

In ancient days, there were prophets and apostles who held authority that was granted them either directly from God, Jesus Christ, or from angelic ministers.

Further, the allusion to the practice of not fasting during a wedding is an allusion to a well - documented ancient Jewish practice of freeing wedding participants, including the guests, from religious obligations during the seven days of the wedding celebrations (References in Billerbeck, Kommentar I, p. 506.)

Feuerbach further offended the people of his day by suggesting that the ancient nature religions remained superior to Christianity since they were sensuously in touch with the earth and with nature, whereas Christianity had become separated from nature, and had made of God a separate, sexless, spiritual being.

Part of the answer is that these ancient events are moments in a living process which includes also the existence of the church at the present day; and another part is that, as Christians believe, in these events of ancient time God was at work among men, and it is from his action in history rather than from abstract arguments that we learn what God is like, and what are the principles on which he deals with men, now as always.

The ancients understood that the unbidden communication in the night opens sleepers to a world different from the one they manage during the day.

We find ourselves quite unconvinced by much of the ancient rabbinical reasoning, a little of which is reflected in the letters of Paul.7 Nevertheless the Jews spent much time trying to learn how the Scriptures they had inherited from a former period were to be seen as relevant to their own day.

Here we see unknown writers in the hills of ancient Judah, seated in simple homes that from the point of view of our present - day luxury might be regarded as little better than hovels, surrounded with furnishings more bare and austere than those of a medieval monastery, equipped with simple reed pens and rolls of papyrus, or perhaps with broken sherds of old pots, as they slowly indite in awkward, ancient Hebrew characters, words that have run like fire and are potent at this distant day.

Never since the days when rude minds, but minds aflame with the certainty of truth, laid seige to the proud and empty paganism of ancient Rome has there lain before mankind both the need, and the attainable prospect of one world civilisation, confirmed through one Faith from God, and under God, pacified in the unity of one brotherhood, one aim in human affairs, one common charity of end and purpose.

The heroes of modern - day evangelicalism, from scholars like N.T. Wright to pastors like Rob Bell, are passionately and unapologetically contextual textualists, working diligently with a host of ancient literary and archaeological sources to make sense of biblical texts as they would have been understood in their day.

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority.

Attendantly, from within this millenarian orientation, Jesus himself was identified with the bar nasha of Daniel 7:13 — 14, a type of new Adam, who, on the basis of his appearance before the Ancient of Days, recovered the characteristics that distinguish the human being created in the image and likeness of God: dominion, glory, and kingship (see Ps.

RELEVANT looks at the ancient tradition of Ash Wednesday, drawing lessons from the church calendar and exploring why the day still has meaning for the church today.

Or was it only ancient Israel that strayed so far, while we have progressed in godliness from those more primitive days?

Immortal, invisible God only wise, In light inaccessible hid from our eyes, Most blessed, most glorious, the ancient of days, Almighty victorious, thy great name we praise.

The story is a precisely ordered piece, with each of its six creative acts rounded out with the same refrain: and there was evening, and there was morning, one day, a second day, a third day, etc. (in ancient Israel as in the practice of Judaism now the course of a day is marked from evening to evening).

Obviously Nietzsche was such a prophet and seer, and like his ancient compeers, his vision is an expression of a prophetic community, beginning from at least the time of Blake and extended into our own day.

And indirectly, through them, she drew from the common custom and law dominant in the ancient Near and Middle East of that day.

Kind of like people who would keep the ancient writings from the commonfolk in this day and age, in order to maintain their own view of the world, rather than allow all philosophies to circulate so that folk can choose.

If Jesus allowed for breaking the honored Sabbath laws so as to provide for healing or gleaning, though the ancient laws forbade these on the sacred day, would he not also allow for a suspension of the proscription against divorce if such were to liberate a person from the bondage of an intolerable marriage?

It fits easily in the pocket; it is physically beautiful; it contains the Mass readings for each day of the month; and it also has articles and meditations that supply spiritual reading for each day from a wide range of orthodox sources (fathers, saints and doctors of the Church, mystical writers ancient and modern).

7.9, 10, 13, 14, which because of its metric structure is to be distinguished from the remainder of the chapter, and is the account of an assembly of gods at which authority is passed from one god, designated Ancient of Days, to another, younger god, designated Son of man.

Actual liturgies from the days when temples to various goddesses were still in business have been lost; ancient devotees took their secrets into the grave.

According to an ancient chronicle (preserved in the Abd - Al - Kadir manuscript), Omar, who was known for his ability to cure the sick through prayer, was once exiled from Mocha in Yemen to a desert cave near Ousab (modern day Wusab, about 90 km east of Zabid).

Emelyn Rude explores how our poultry passion came to be, from ancient Rome to modern day.

Inspired by the ancient «Vino Pùcinum» from the region where modern day Prosecco is made, PVXINVM («pook - see - num») is produced from 100 % Glera grapes which are hand harvested from 40 - 50 year old vines.

So goodbye Wenger and thanks for the ancient history glory days but most of us, - pires and Ken, being dinosaur type exceptions on here and also the sweet, naive and ever water guzzling TY from Arsenal fan TV — prefer living in the here and now and looking forward to the near future, for we are all a long time dead, as our club has effectively been this last decade.

This collection has information on contraception from ancient times through modern day, with a primary focus on the 20th century.

The current situation in Syria is strong evidence of a more ancient and enduring norm from imperial and Cold War days: when a strong repressive state has one or two very powerful allies it can easily resist the wider will of international society and public morality.

Encompassing everything from ancient Greek geometry and quantum physics to the wedge and the World Wide Web, Science is a remarkable reference book that tells the story of science from earliest times to the present day!

DNA from five ancient skeletons confirms the Canaanites of biblical fame live on in modern day Lebanon

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.

It had been a different story at RAS's zoological museum a few days earlier, where she wasn't allowed to sample the bones she had come for because they were already covered with drill marks from other researchers who, like her, hoped to mine the relatively small number of ancient polar bear samples to reveal their evolutionary history.

Another team, analyzing DNA from present - day and ancient Americans, reports that Native Americans came from a single ancestral population.

A fossil from the ancient Aurornis xui (left) shows that the bird was the size of a modern - day chicken (right) and could help explain the evolution of birds.

The result of genetic analysis was a big surprise for the research team: the ancient individuals carried no trace of ancestry from people who settled Papua New Guinea more than 40,000 years ago, in contrast to all present - day Pacific islanders who derive at least one - quarter of their ancestry from Papuans.

«We expect to find fossils of animals that have persisted from more ancient times, and I'm hopeful we will one day find the ancestral type of both the mandibulate and chelicerate nervous system ground patterns.

The researchers drew on deep x-ray imagery from Chandra, built up over four million seconds (46 days) of telescope exposure time, to identify the ancient black holes.

They found that he is as genetically similar to present - day East Asians as to ancient genomes found in Western Europe and Siberia, suggesting that the population he was part of split from the ancestors of both Europeans and East Asians, prior to their divergence from each other.

«We had previously found an ancient genetic link of present - day Europeans and Native Americans,» adds Nick Patterson from the Broad Institute in Boston.

In order to compare the ancient humans to present - day people, the team also generated genome - wide data from about 2,400 humans from almost 200 diverse worldwide contemporary populations.

Present - day Loki may be very different from the ancient versions that gave rise to eukaryotes.

Continuity and admixture in the last five millennia of Levantine history from ancient Canaanite and present - day Lebanese genome sequences.

However, they show considerable genetic overlap with present - day domesticated lines from the region,» explains Nils Stein, who directed the comparison of the ancient genome with modern genomes at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, with the support of Robbie Waugh and colleagues at the James Hutton Institute, Dundee, Scotland, and Gary Muehlbauer, University of Minnesota, USA.

By comparing the genomes to one another as well as to those of nearly 240 previously studied ancient people from nearby regions and about 2,600 present - day people, the researchers learned that the first farming cultures in the Levant, Iran and Anatolia were all genetically distinct.

1 The sultry «dog days of summer» get their name from ancient astronomers who noticed that those days coincide with the period when Sirius, the Dog Star, rises at the same time as the sun.

To explore the transition to agriculture, scientists have looked to the Natufians, an ancient hunter - gatherer society that flourished from about 12,500 to 9500 B.C.E. in a part of the Middle East called the Levant, which includes pieces of modern - day Cyprus, Syria, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine.