Sentences with phrase «made ruler of»

Death was the only penalty that could be inflicted on one who made himself the ruler of a subjugated province of the empire and thereby threatened revolt leading to independence.

His success in several engagements with the Egyptian army greatly strengthened his hold over his followers and made him the ruler of all of Sudan.

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in; who brings princes to nought, and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing [Isa.

Luke makes the rulers of the people the first to mock the crucified Jesus.

No, wait, that's a different match, one that Rusev better win, unless Jinder Mahal is getting the W so post-Mania we get face Rusev feuding with Jinder, who seems to think that defeating Randy Orton and becoming United States Champion makes you the ruler of America?

Individual miners complained that deep - pocketed mining operations were gathering huge amounts of power in the system, effectively making them rulers of Bitcoin.

Not exact matches

The most obvious way migrants could use blockchain technology to securely store money while traveling would be to convert cash into digital currency, but Soros dismissed the value of cryptocurrency, making clear he believed its primary appeal was «for tax evasion» and «the rulers of dictatorships.»

So most of the debts were owed to the rulers themselves, or to their palace (tax) collectors who gradually became independent creditors by the wealth they made.

«Poor, sad, proud, too - tender Lear: the old man who loves to be loved; the prince embarrassed by the scope of his authority, yet jealous of royalty's perquisites; the ruler willing to give away his lawful prerogatives in order to hear — if just for a moment — that sweet gush of feminine gratitude; the vain old duffer whose need for affection makes him oblivious of its counterfeit.

He made me father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household and ruler of all Egypt» (Genesis 45:8).

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

It will then be possible for the Jewish rulers to abolish private property and everywhere to make use of the resources of the state.

Though there were dozens of royal rulers and religious leaders within a few miles of Bethlehem, God chose to make the angelic proclamation to people without power, riches, and authority — to poor shepherds in the cold, dark, night.

An omnipotent ruler probably wouldn't need to kill a whole bunch of infants to try (unsuccessfully) to make a point to some human ruler — but maybe he's just a sick and twist omnipotent being...

The interpretation of the Qur» an must be made by the ruler of the state.

Second, to say that God is the all-wise and ever - present Creator and Ruler of the world is to assert that God who made the world does not abandon it or withdraw to let it run by itself.

Perhaps he intended the story of the rich ruler and the camel to be understood in the light of his teaching as a whole: It is what is in one's heart, rather than the external trappings of one's life, that makes one clean or unclean.

while the writer has little knowledge of the bible, he is also greatly lacking what he should know to write such a article, the laws give to people of all walks of life is the commandments given by moses, religion does not have anything to do with goverments laws or rulings, he told us straight the one law that there is no forgiveness for is murder, rulers and goverments take it upon themselves to make the decision whether to go to war, or if a person should be put to death, as far as jesus and the apostles are concerned thier labours was a work of love and true humanitarian towards all peoples, races, religions, they never asked for anything for themselves, and they never took from one to give to another.

But when overtures were made to the rulers of the city for permission to stone them, Paul and Barnabas fled to Lystra and Derbe.

You crave punishment because it makes you feel somehow superior, or correct in your discovery of «God's Word» in a book which was written and edited and re-edited (as well as redacted) by countless rulers and scholars along the way, each wishing to have some stake in the claim of the Eternal.

Jeremy thanks for your comments alot of this i never really thought about before until you provoked me to seek the truth in the word it is what we all should be doing finding the truth for ourselves God wants to reveal mysterys if we are open to hear.If we have been christians awhile we just take the word of whoevers preaching or whichever clip we see on god tube its knowledge but not revelation.Because the story sounds plausible we tag that on to our belief for example for many years i believed that the rich young rulers problem was money so the way to deal with that problem is to give it away and be a follower of Jesus sounds plausible.Till you realise every believers situation is different so the message has to be universal.So the reason its not about money because it excludes those that do nt have it and does nt make room for those that do have it but do nt worship it.The rich young ruler was not a bad person he lived by a good moral code but he made money his idol he put that before God.The word says we shall not have any idols thats a sin and a wicked one.In fact there wasnt any room in his heart for Jesus that is a tragedy.So when we see the message is about Idolatry we all have areas that we chose not to submit to God thats universal everyone of us whether we are rich or poor.I believe we are unaware that we have these idols what are some of them that was revealed to me our partners our children our work our church our family i can sense some of you are getting fidgetty.

Nevertheless, the faith that God is the Lord of history; that even atomic energy is God's energy to be used for human good and not for mutual destruction; that no nation is sovereign in its own right but that God alone is the sovereign Ruler of the world — such a faith makes a vast difference in the way we deal with political issues.

So, too, Paul reminds the Christians at Ephesus that it is «through the Church» that God's wisdom is «made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places,» and that it is with these rulers and authorities that the Church wrestles primarily, not with powers of «flesh and blood.»

This is to davidnfran hay David you might have brought this up in a previous post I haven't read, but i did read quit a bit about your previous comments and replies at the beginning of this blog, so I was just wondering in light of what hebrews 6 and 10 say how would you enterprite passages like romans 8 verses 28 thrue 39 what point could paul have been trying to make in saying thoughs amazing things in romans chapter 8 verses 28 thrue 39 in light of hebrews 6 and 10, Pauls says that god foreknew and also predestined thoughs whom he called to be conformed to the image of his son so that he would be the first born among many brothers and then he goes on saying that neither death nor life nor angels nor rulers nor things present nor things to come nor powers nor hight nor death can ever separate us from the love of god in christ jesus so how would i inturprate that in light of that warning in hebrews 6 and 10,

They are not unbelievers, these men; but for them the dominions, principalities, powers and rulers of the darkness of this world have a reality that makes the difference between ancient and modern mythologies of little importance.

It's always tempting to look away when Jesus speaks to us of wealth, convincing ourselves that the rich young ruler is someone else who makes more money than we do.

Do nt get mad at me because I feel the way i feel I have a relationship with God... The creator of the universe who made the heavens and earth and skies and people choose to ignore that... Its in our face everyday and we keep on believing the lies of this world and follow the ruler of this world satan (whom God gave to rule)...

But over and above the broad ethical teaching, intrinsically universal in its scope, there are sayings addressed directly to the disciples as a community in being, capable of being compared and contrasted with other existing communities: «You know that in the world the recognized rulers lord it over their subjects, and their great men make them feel the weight of authority.

oh, and could you provide some historical examples of despotic rulers that made it an official policy to eradicate religion, who werent atheists?

So also, Rome's rulers and warriors made their way down to the plains, bringing with them the ways of judgment that nourish social life.

It's definitely a movie made for a non-reading public, as when the when the young party girl asserts that Gatsby is a nephew or cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm, adding, in case you didn't know, that the Kaiser was the ruler of Germany.

This implies that an established ruler or governing authority will make a judgment concerning the necessity of fighting.

No human ruler has ever had to make that kind of a decision.

I think that if Jesus were made President — no, if Jesus were made Supreme Ruler of the Whole World — no, if Jesus was given all authority in Heaven and on Earth...

Of course he wasn't a political ruler, but you'd think God Almighty made flesh could have ended poverty and homelessness if he wanted to.

«Let us observe, beloved, how the Ruler is continually displaying the resurrection that will be, of which he made the first fruits when he raised the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead.

This presupposes that God is not only the creator but the ruler of all he has made, and he remains so in spite of any thwarting of his will.

There is a dramatic word in Colossians that Christ «disarmed the rulers and authorities and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in it [the cross]» (Col. 2:15).15 The astounding paradox, or we might even call it, reverently, God's practical joke, is that it is precisely in offering himself as Victim that Christ becomes Victor.

S XXII, 3, 4,) «Encompassing thou art,» — therefore the offer of the Asvamedha conquers all the quarters; — «the world thou art,» the world he thus conquers; — «a ruler thou art, an upholder,» — he thus makes him an upholder; «go thou into Agni Vaisvanara,» he thus makes him go to Agni Vaisvanara (the friend of all men); — «of wide extent,» — he thus causes him to extend in offspring and cattle; — «consecrated by Svaha (hail!)

One of the most striking is the LORD»S command to an Israelite ruler to sit still while Yahweh makes the ruler's enemies a stool for his feet (Ps.

Can we make a case for seeing the angels in God's initial plan of creation not just as messengers but as in some way active agents with a specific role in the development of the evolutionary process, a role which he did not withdraw from those who rebelled, in the same way that he does not always or instantly remove bad rulers who affect the development of the historical process?

Those who assert that God is «creator» and «ruler» of a world that comes about by chance events are in truth denying that God is really the cause of things as they are; and so, this makes the Benedicite utterly meaningless.

This is a classical device, to shake the confidence of the masses in their political rulers, to accuse the head of state, to make oneself out to be a liberator.

This makes sense to you, although it makes no sense at all to me (and I would predict it makes no sense to the other 5 billion of us non Muslims), I would have less problems if it were applied to all citizen of that country, both men and women, those in power and the working class, the rulers and the ruled, but that is not the case.

He made him master of his household, ruler over all he possessed, to instruct his princes as he pleased and teach his elders wisdom.

David, pondering that before the Almighty in Psalm 8, is struck by how the wonders of the universe provide little reason for a man to assume a position of importance, and yet, «You have made him ruler over the works of your hands.»

What is more, they can be greatly helped if they see that this is indeed the chief stress in public prayer or church worship, so that such social praying is undertaken by a family of God's children addressing a loving Father (who makes demands upon them, to be sure, but who is no hateful dictator nor absentee ruler nor moral tyrant, but genuinely concerned for their best development as his children), rather than a kind of law - court or imperial audience with a terrifying deity.

By the way Peter never identified himself as the rock... Explain to me these passages, Acts 4:8 - 11» then, Peter, filled with holy spirit, said to them: «Rulers of the people and older men, 9 if we are this day being examined, on the basis of a good deed to an ailing man, as to by whom this man has been made well, 10 let it be known to all of YOU and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Naz · a · rene», whom YOU impaled but whom God raised up from the dead, by this one does this man stand here sound in front of YOU.

As for john himself, he was still jew, and using hebrew to write — he therefore would have known that 666 equals the name for Nero and wrote it to make a statement against the romans in general by calling one of there rulers who had done the worse things to jews the anti christ!

Not open, that is, unless, as the Founding Fathers feared, the state wants to make hypocrites or knaves of rulers and citizens by forcing them to pretend.