Sentences with phrase «man against beast»

Not exact matches

Among his companions from the scriptures are the pseudochristoi who, Christ says, will come «in my name» and will «lead you astray» -» the lawless one» (2 Thessalonians 2:10) who, by the power of Satan, will impress the faithful with false signs and wonders, offering «a strong delusion» to tempt «those who are perishing»; «Gog and Magog» who, under Satan's command, will gather the nations for the final battle with Christ (Revelation 20:2 - 10); the «beasts» of Revelation (16, 17, 19) that harken back to the «beasts» of Daniel (7); «the sons of Belial» (Deuteronomy 13:13 and passim) who are «base» or «worthless,» who practice idolatry, drunkenness, disrespect, evil speech, who are «empty men» (2 Chronicles 13:7); and the conspiring nations and rulers who take counsel against the Lord (Psalms 2:1 - 3).

«For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord.»

The beasts may be mentioned simply to accentuate the loneliness of the desert as a place of testing and struggle, but more probably, as D. E. Nineham suggests, «they are thought of as subject and friendly to» Jesus, and, hence, «the passage should be understood against the background of the common Jewish idea that the beasts are subject to the righteous man.»

The day before the «fight with the beasts,» Perpetua records her vision where she is led to the amphitheatre, where, in preparation for a fight against an Egyptian, «of vicious appearance,» handsome young men join Perpetua, as seconds and assistants, and before the fight, she records that her «clothes were stripped off, and suddenly I was a man.»

further proof that Elohim is «spirit» in a general sense can be found in the Book of Exodus Chapter 12 Verse 12 where it reads: «For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.»

Even the point about what is best for other creatures, which may seem very modern, is not without foundation in Hebrew Scriptures in such passages as the law against taking the hen - bird as well as the eggs from the nest (Deut 22:6), or this saying from Proverbs: «A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast» (12:10), where, be it noted, the quality that makes a man considerate of his working animals is not prudence or good business sense but «righteousness,» a point all the more significant when we remember that in the Hebrew Scriptures one of the marks of righteousness is not mere evenhandedness but active favor to the weak and deprived.

John Cena, hero to man and beast and created in God's own image, has carved out a niche for himself since WrestleMania of putting his United States Championship on the line against all comers and having spectacular matches every single week.

He would be a beast on those games that we meet Chelsea the only «Formerly top four» side that took unnecessary points from us, obviously for reason of history, he would be fired up against Man United, they hired someone who didn't give him a chance, against Man City he would probably be in competition with Aguero for the golden boot... Everton made 360 chances to Arsenal's 464.

The man was an absolute beast against the run and we will greatly miss that aspect of his game but we were paying him sack money and unfortunately, he wasn't producing.

I was a fair swimmer, 100 - yard freestyle and relays, but those were bad times for ordinary men because we were up against a beast named Johnny Weissmueller and one named Arne Borg.

In this thriller, James McAvoy stars as Kevin Wendell Crumb, a man afflicted with two dozen personalities, some of which wage an internal war against the others for control of Kevin and the release of a powerful entity known as The Beast.

Kingsley's roundhouse climactic speech reveals evil as a beast not easily classified and explained, but it's not until the epilogue that Polanski unleashes his film's final, and most powerful, punch — a supple crane shot inside a concert hall that both evokes the inextricable web of deceit, violence, and shame that binds Death and the Maiden's three crippled characters, and stands as a superlative evocation of how man's crimes against his fellow man are frequently hidden beneath a façade of everyday decorum.

The Lichtspeer: Double Speer Edition includes a new save system, major tweaks to the original game difficulty level, and an all - new co-op mode, where man and dog fight hand - in - paw against a horde of beasts from another dimension.

Set in an alternate Victorian London, the adventure sees you take control of Sir Galahad as he and the Knights of the Round Table engage in battle against man - beast hybrid creatures named the half - breeds.