Sentences with phrase «overcome enmity»

Instead He drives them to do the uncustomary, the untraditional — to overcome enmity of clan and tribe and unite into one people, to take the unbeaten path into the land He has chosen for them.

His definition of the word is straightforward «a process in which there is a mutual attempt to heal and overcome enmities, build trust and relationships, and develop a shared commitment to the common good.»

Not exact matches

For he is determined finally and forever to be reconciled with the human race, and the enmity which exists can only be overcome if he takes all wrath — his as well as ours — up into himself.

Life is a protean fountain of delight, in need of enmity, dying, and martyrdom, devoured only by a disgust which must be overcome in the pursuit and creation of its own immediate goodness (TSZ 120f.).

Raymond Brown takes this reading and sees here a reference to the fall of man (sic) and the failure of the darkness to overcome because God had put enmity between the serpent and the offspring of the woman (Gen. 3:15).