Sentences with phrase «pronounce upon the nature»

In our age, in which we have lost the significance of the mystery in sign, let alone the limited signification of truth in any particular sign, it is not amiss in the poet, when he is confronted by inquisitive theorists and urged to pronounce upon the nature of his peculiar calling» the rescue of sign» to speak directly for that labor Eliot calls the purification of the dialect of the tribe.

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But, just as is human nature, it was not long before they returned to their wicked ways, and about 100 years later, a prophet by the name of Nahum arose in Israel, and he too pronounced judgement upon Nineveh.

Note also in the reading that this is the word, it is what God said to Moses; that the quality of divine compassion and mercy and grace here comes through as it has not previously in Exodus; that this is a recital of faith in the nature and purpose of God (see the emphasis upon the divine «I,» even more pronounced in Hebrew, and compare the same feature in Joshua 24); and that all of this is an expansion of the single, simple, eloquent theme which opens and closes the recital: «I am the LORD,» conveying in the very name all the essential meaning of the divine Life.