Sentences with phrase «hold upon mankind»

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After only the briefest interval — so Mark implies all along — ; his followers were convinced that he had risen from the dead — not as one more resuscitated Israelite, like the daughter of Jairus, nor as a saint who had entered glory, like Moses or Elijah, but as no one less than the transcendent, heavenly Messiah, the «Son of Man» who was to come on the clouds of heaven and hold the last judgment upon all mankind.

In these remarks I am leaning only upon mankind's common instinct for reality, which in point of fact has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

Pandora's box originates from Greek mythology as a container said to hold all the evils that were loosed upon mankind with the exception of hope.