Sentences with phrase «nation of priests»

Can we, in rejecting 2,000 years of powerlessness, remain (or become) that prophesied nation of priests, that light unto the other nations, a Jewish nation in the best and not the narrowest, tribalistic sense?

No one has yet asked, How does a holy nation of priests live?

Before Sinai, before Exodus Nineteen, the Hebrew people were an escaping band of slaves; but after Sinai they were a holy nation, a people of destiny, a nation of priests ordained to serve the world.

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That expression most likely originated at John 11: 49 - 51 «But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them: «You do not know anything at all, and you do not reason out that it is to your benefit for one man to die in behalf of the people and not for the whole nation to be destroyed.»

A funeral has been held for a Northern Irish priest who's been called a «champion of the peace process» in the nation.

In his Address to the Nobility of the German Nation (1520), Luther criticized the traditional distinction between the «temporal» and «spiritual» orders — the laity and the clergy — arguing that all who belong to Christ through faith, baptism, and the Gospel shared in the priesthood of Jesus Christ and belonged «truly to the spiritual estate»: «For whoever comes out of the water of baptism can boast that he is already a consecrated priest, bishop, and pope, although of course it is not seemly that just anybody shall exercise such office.»

Although much of the Old Testament does have historically verifiable occurances, the lead characters are heads of state or high priests or the stories are about the nation as a whole.

jwt, yeahright, tom tom on the pipe, and others YHWH made this law of life for all the people of this earth, so to say your god is redundant, and at a lost for as He states in Isaiah 56, and in Exodus 33 vs. 16 this is for all nations, and people of this earth those who were mislead, and not taught properly by these priest, popes, false prophets, elders, and shepherds, as YHWH taught us of them all misleading the flocks, in Malachi 2, Jeremiah 23 vs.1 - 8, Ezekiel 20, and Ezekiel 34, yet YHWH will save them all when His day comes, as said in Isaiah 51 vs. 5, that His righteousness is near.

If it is the priests only God is speaking to through Malachi, then why in 3:6 does the audience seem to change to the «the children of Jacob» and «the whole nation of you» in verse 9 — it seems there is a change here.

Although I'm a somewhat spotty attender of church, I really like our priest because he does preach against greed, the wars, and about our duty (both as individuals and as a nation) to care for those who are in need, the sick, the very young and the very old.

Old Testament history recounts events, the lives of great men, prophets, priests and kings, migrations, wars, political decisions — everything affecting the exterior life of the nation, the observable course of her turbulent history.

We're a nation of laws that protect people from (for example) pedophile Christian priests and Christian terrorists who blow up abortion clinics.

«Violating a place of worship, killing priests and worshippers is not only vile, evil, and satanic,» said Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria's current president and a Muslim (the nation alternates between Muslim and Christian heads of state).

In Nicaragua, priest and Levite could be the United States that kept to the other side of the road when this Central American nation languished in the ditch under a dictator's heel.

The more - than - subtle suggestion is that they house sacred texts, that the chief priests and scribes of the nation are its professors, scientists, and archivists, and that students are worshipers at a shrine.

And they sang a new song, saying: You are worthy to take the scroll; And to open its seals; For You were slain, And have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, And have made us kings and priests to our God; And we shall reign on the earth.»

In The Relevance of Religion: How Faithful People Can Change Politics (Random House), the former Episcopal priest, Republican senator, and United Nations ambassador argues that communities of faith can restore a spirit of civility to our longstanding disagreements.

They these priest had a responsibility to all the nations, to all the people on the earth as taught in Isaiah 56, and this they did not do as taught to us in Malachi 2, of the Levites then, and unbelievably they are here now.

Although the whole earth is mine, 6 you [a] will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.»

Now therefore, if you will obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my own possession among all peoples; for all the earth is mine, and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.

Examples of these human marks include the fact that the Bible was written in Hebrew and Greek, that the Old Testament world was a world of temples, priests and sacrifice, that Israel as well as the surrounding nations has prophets that mediated divine will to them, that Israel was ruled by kings, that Israel's legal system shares striking similarities with those of surrounding nations, that the creation narrative and the story of Noah resemble other ancient stories of the time, that the writers of Scripture operated within the paradigm of ancient cosmology, etc..

Everyone has to respond to the command «Go therefore and make disciples of all nations «but priests are necessary for the fulfilment of «Do this in commemoration of Me», and for the continuing sacramental and pastoral activity ofChrist the Head.

It is in assuming this sacrificial task that we Israeli Jews uphold the charge given to us by God in Exodus 19: «For all the earth / land is mine; and you shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.»

Their insistence that Israel is a holy people, set apart, dedicated, consecrated, to the service of God, «a kingdom of priests and a holy nation» (Exod.

Of course these sanctuaries, and on occasion the priests mentioned, were of foreign nationOf course these sanctuaries, and on occasion the priests mentioned, were of foreign nationof foreign nations.

So, my main topic for today: In RLB, a decently equipped 8 man party with 2 or 3 priests, can stand in the middle of opposing nation's base, unchallenged.

About two weeks ago, Top Kay, the official fetish priest of Lilwin who also doubles as part - time musician on the label of Boss Nation Music owned by Lilwin released a song to insult and make serious allegations against some major stars in the industry because they danced to the «One Corner» by Patapaa.

But New York is one of the most restrictive in the nation when it comes to allowing victims from long - ago abuse to file lawsuits against their alleged perpetrators, and so neither the former priest or the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo is liable for the acts he told The Buffalo News he committed long ago.