Sentences with phrase «man ruler»
The business just got too big for a one - man ruler.
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Jamie Dimon, Grand Wizard of JP Morgan, Forger of Chains, Master of Trading Desks, Ruler of the Golden Men, Father of Bailouts and the first of his name has come out swinging on Bitcoin.
As if that's not enough, consider what Jesus said to the rich young ruler, and consider the story of the rich man and Lazarus.
«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.
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).
We all know the ruler of the universe is a man who lives alone (except for his cat which he names «The Lord») in a shack.
Why — because we fail to grasp our identi.ty; we fail to grasp that ruler - ship in the earth was given to man.
«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.»
Jesus restored to man the dominion (ruler - ship) he lost over the earth.
The familial structure referenced in the household codes was that of pater familias [father of the family], which positioned the man as the ruler and authority over an economic / familial unit which consisted of the ruling patriarch, his wife, children and slaves.
In addition to his advice to the young ruler, there was his clear injunction to store up treasure not on earth but only in heaven, his rather pointed remarks on the impossibility of dual service to both God and Mammon, his parable about the rich man and Lazarus (which was not, I think we can grant, merely a warning against dissipation), and so on.
As a commentary on the plight of the rich young ruler who can not bring himself to sell all he has, give the money to the poor, and follow Christ, it leaves little room for doubt that Christ is not merely rebuking one wealthy man for a lack of proper spiritual commitment, but is saying something very disquieting about wealth as such.
When the ruler does not protect the rights of the individual, the community is empowered to depose him and to replace him with a man who is able to live up to the functions of his high office.
Mughal rulers such as Babar and Jahangir were themselves literary men of high distinction, and their courtiers included men of great learning and collectors of large libraries.
But Jesus called them to him and said, «You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them.
Islam recognizes that the right of private discretion belongs to any individual who possesses the capacity for clear thinking and study, whether man or woman, ruler or subject, leading government civil servant or private citizen.
«You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them» (Matt.
I wonder, however, how Hart would reconcile Christ's consistent use of the image of a rich man or ruler to portray the Father in his parables.
A ruler has to save face and show that he is a well - disposed man; he has to justify himself!
Jesus Christ told us what the order of this world is like: «You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them» (Matthew 20:25).
Titus 3:1 - 2 Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to do whatever is good, to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate, and to show true humility toward all men.
Well, you motivated me to go to the thesaurus and look up «leader»... how about baton, bellwether, big wheel, bigwig, boss, captain, chief, chieftain, commander, conductor, controller, counsellor, dean, dignitary, director, doyen, eminence, exec, foreman, forerunner, general, governor, guide, harbinger, head, head man, herald, honcho, kingpin, lead, lion *, luminary, maestro, manager, master, notability, notable, number one, officer, pacesetter, pilot, pioneer, precursor, president, principal, rector, ringleader, ruler, shepherd, skipper, superintendent, superior.
This is where we gain our knowledge of God as Creator and Ruler of the world; our concept of him as loving Judge and Redeemer of men; our belief that Jesus Christ is his Son and our Lord and Savior; and the idea that the Holy Spirit is our ever - present Guide and divine Companion.
In the third chapter of John's Gospel we read of a man named Nicodemus, a Pharisee and a ruler of the Jews, who came to Jesus by night with a searching and uneasy sense that Jesus could give him something that he needed greatly.
He spoke of how «the rulers of the gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them» (Matt.
This becomes so restrictive that we should consider an equivalent question: One man in how many, who has entered Jerusalem as a ruler,
In the cases of the pastoral ruler of Gregory the Great and of Chrysostom's priest the summons of the church to men whom it found divinely chosen by Christian and providential call was of the first importance.
«When rulers have inverted their functions and enacted wickedness into a law which treads down the inalienable rights of man to such a degree as this,» abolitionist minister Theodore Parker of Boston declared after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill in 1850, «then I know no ruler but God, no law but natural Justice.»
The «Son of man,» whom Christians understand to be Jesus in his risen power and status, is clearly both a ruler and a judge.
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.
The Son of man will judge the judges of this world and overrule the rulers; he is clearly a political as well as a religious figure.
The question is not whether the ministry will reflect the institutional forms of leadership in the world but whether it will reflect these with the difference that Christian faith and church life require, whether, in short, the minister will remain «man of God» despite the fact that he is now a director instead of a ruler.
In the second sense, the men of violence would be the earthly rulers who tried to prevent it.
«You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them.
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.
The traditional description of this man is a composite one; «rich» is from Mark 10:22, «young» from Matthew 19:20, and «ruler» from Luke 18:18.
The political constitution, according to Madison, would aim at obtaining for rulers «men who possess most wisdom to discern and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society.»
In practical application, Kings and Rulers would often use c - a-s-t-r-a-t-e-d men or eunuchs, as those who were charged with the management and care of women's chambers.
Although he was on okay ruler from Rome's perspective, he was not a real nice man.
Especially with the rich young ruler — he allows this man to walk away because he's not willing to give up what he needs to in order to follow Christ.
The return of Christ as the One and Only Ruler is at hand, and Only God's Will will be done (and not man's will).
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!)
Upon his return the first two men were rewarded based on the returns the ruler received from their investments.
On this occasion Jesus called them to him and told them, as he had before (cf. Mk 9:35; Lk 9:48), that the greatest among them would he the slave of the rest: they were not to lord it over men, as the rulers of the nations did (cf Lk 22:24 - 26).
The decree, delivered to every province and in every language of the empire proclaimed that «all the women will respect their husbands, from the least to the greatest» and that «every man should be ruler of his own household.»
While in no way do I want to associate George W. Bush with wicked forces, if I wanted to emphasize who he was, I could refer to him as «the president, the man in the White House, the ruler of the free world, the head of our country.»
Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tub find out.
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.
The motif recurs in the story of Oedipus himself: a babe abandoned, a young man at the crossroads, a mature ruler at Thebes, and an old man at Colonus.
Seljuq rulers were great patrons of the arts, sciences, and literature, and showed in many ways their appreciation for learned men.