Sentences with phrase «judgment upon all mankind»

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.

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(54) And naught hindereth mankind from believing when the guidance cometh unto them, and from asking forgiveness of their Lord unless (it be that they wish) that the judgment of the men of old should come upon them or (that) they should be confronted with the Doom.

The belief that God's tenderness embraces all creatures gives more meaning to the words with which Abraham Lincoln concluded the Emancipation Proclamation: «And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.»