Sentences with phrase «of angelic powers»
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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.
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Indeed, the angelic annunciation is not worded as a proposal but as an exercise of irresistible power: «The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.»
p. 269 «This angelic guardianship is something natural, something normal, as normal as the great powers of the physical cosmos.»
It was perhaps already in contact with speculations regarding the divine purpose in the creation of the world, the angelic powers, the figures of Adam, Death, Satan or Antichrist, the Heavenly Man, the coming salvation, the relation of spirit and flesh, soul and body — speculations which were at least tinged, no doubt, with Gnosticism.
He tells briefly (1:18 - 25) of Mary's becoming pregnant by the power of the Holy Spirit, Joseph's assurance by an angelic message in a dream that Mary's conception fulfilled Isaiah 7:14, and the birth of her son.
The Shepherds of Disorder (Thanos and Despina) juxtaposes an anthropological and materialist study of a rigid rural community with the mythologically imbued, forbidden romance between a rebellious shepherd and the angelic and compliant daughter of a rich conservative family, engaged in an erotically charged power game.
On one such offering, a flash of light knocks you down to the Protectorate (the world of humans) and causes you to lose your halo, wings, and angelic powers.