Sentences with phrase «said of the successors»

And it is indeed said of the successors of Jehu — Jehoahaz, Jehoash, and Jeroboam — that they did evil in the sight of the Lord, that the house of Jehu continued in the way of the sin of Jeroboam, that it was not a holy house, and that the zeal of Jehu for the Lord was quickly extinguished.

«You're not going to have to tell Jimmy much,» Bratton said of his successor.

Not exact matches

The goal is to make more small businesses aware of SBA services, an issue that Mills has said ought to be her successor's primary focus.

On Dec. 10, the company hired Laurent Potdevin as her successor and said Lululemon founder Chip Wilson would step aside as chairman of the board but remain a director of the company.

She said «most of the founders we work with look at YC as the gold standard,» and that distancing the fund from YC could «hinder our chances of raising successor funds.»

«Revised guidance implies sales «fell off the cliff» in January,» he said in a note to clients, adding that while many investors credit former CEO Christine Day with Lululemon's success, she has done a poor job of setting up her successor.

«It will be hard for a club owned by 150,000 members to either keep this ownership model, or if it keeps it, to continue competing at the very top level,» says Victor Font, CEO of Delta Partners, a global telecom advisory and investment firm, who is considered one possible successor to Bartomeu in 2021.

Howard Schultz, the leader of Starbucks, said on Thursday he would step down as chief executive next year, handing over to his personally selected successor the management of the company he built into the world's largest coffee business, with over 25,000 stores in 75 countries.

Navneet Alang, a writer for the Techi website, agrees, saying, «Blackberry have suddenly got a lot of talent for creating a successor to their clunky and old - fashioned — if eminently practical — Blackberry OS.»

«The one thing I will fight to my death, this will not be laid on Jack Welch,» said Langone, whose effusive praise of Welch as «CEO of the century» contrasted his veiled criticism of Welch's successor, Jeff Immelt.

Jacobson said she had no information about her successor, though a US official with knowledge of the decision told The New York Times that the Trump administration had selected a nominee.

Buffett, who celebrates his 50th year at the helm of his company, said that that Berkshire Hathaway's (BRK) board has identified his successor but didn't reveal his or her identity.

While Munger had the idea to make Abel and Jain vice chairmen, Buffett said managing a large portion of Berkshire, including input on smaller acquisitions, would provide valuable experience to his successor.

But in the wake of Premier Alison Redford's resignation yesterday, I expect he'll be renewing his Progressive Conservative Party membership so as to have a say in the choice of her successor.

(The company said in a statement that he had every intention of remaining involved with Evernote once he has found a successor.)

Others wait to see what the lay of the land will be like closer to a campaign before hastily saying goodbye, only to end up forcing their successor to face the music without much time to make an impression.

«From an investor perspective, the unknown is always somewhat concerning,» said Kash Pashootan, portfolio manager at First Avenue Advisory of Raymond James Ltd. «It's going to be essential that who they hire as a successor buys into the vision or strategy CIBC has.»

Priebus said he resigned, though it appeared he was unceremoniously ousted after Trump announced his successor, John Kelly, on Twitter and reportedly kicked him out of the presidential motorcade.

The lawsuit says one of Mansion's successors did, and, placed a dishonorable discharge note in Wilson's official file.

Her successor will be named by the bank's board of directors, which said a decision will be made in early 2014.

When he had to squeeze extra floors into a new building, he called Sandy Lindenbaum, a zoning - law guru who called himself «the last of the gunslingers»; when he needed the New Jersey Casino Control Commission to see things his way, he turned to Atlantic City fixture Nick Ribis; when he wanted to divorce Ivana (and, later on, her successor, Marla Maples), he retained Jay Goldberg, a self - described «killer» who says he can «rip skin off a body»; when it was tax time, he reversed decades of bragging about his billions and had tax attorneys say his properties were worth only a fraction of what he had publicly proclaimed (an ongoing tax appeal in Chicago declares Trump Tower Chicago «a failed business»); when he was in the market for a troubleshooter, he hired Michael Cohen, who has threatened journalists who've written about Trump with bodily harm.

St Helen's Bishopsgate said a successor to former Bishop of London Richard Chartres who supports same - sex marriage would be met with «unavoidable avoidance».

They founded themselves as the successors of peter, and say they are following the church, the one true church that Jesus talked about!

You must also not believe the Bible when it tells us that Jesus Christ promises to guide and guard His Church until the end of time [so that evil will not prevail] and that the Bible says that Jesus Christ will bring His Apostles [which would include their successors] into remembrance of all that He taught them and He would bring them into the fullness of Truth as we can bear it.

The Vatican spokesman said the matter was concluded and the pope would reveal the contents of the report only to his successor.

The mutually recognized authority of Scripture served well in the debates with the papacy, but the Reformers and their successors never did a terribly good job of saying why they received what they received from the ancient church.

Says the bishop, «As bishop of this diocese, I have, as the successor of the apostles in union with the Holy Father, the absolute duty to protect [the Mass] from innovation or sacrilege.»

Catholics teach that since apostles have the ability to speak and write the Word of God, and since the Pope is the successor of the apostle Peter, then anything the Pope says or writes is without error and is equal to the Bible.

The point for us in this context, however, is that the New Testament material as a whole enables us to see that the first Christians, or their immediate successors, did not rest content with affirming that Jesus, in himself, was risen; they went on to say that the activity of God in his self - expression, above all in that self - expression in Jesus, was an abiding reality in the creation.

«Tim was one of the most godly men I have ever known,» said David Jeremiah, LaHaye's successor at the San Diego church he led for 25 years (then named Scott Memorial Baptist Church, now named Shadow Mountain Community Church).

Rabbi Zalman, one of the great successors to Hasidism's founder, Baal Shem Tov, was said to have interrupted his prayers to say of the Lord: «I do not want your paradise.

Of the person he says, «An enduring personality in the temporal world is a route of occasions in which the successors with some peculiar completeness sum up their predecessors.&raquOf the person he says, «An enduring personality in the temporal world is a route of occasions in which the successors with some peculiar completeness sum up their predecessors.&raquof occasions in which the successors with some peculiar completeness sum up their predecessors.»

The bishop, who has served in the post in New Hampshire since early 2004, said he is energized about his next two years of ministry and support of clergy and congregations as the process of naming his successor moves forward.

Some gave their confirmation as a result of bribery and some through fear, but Mu`awiya did not get even silent assent from Husain and some of the others until he brought them together in the presence of a heavily armed force and said to them, «When I ask you not to oppose my son as my successor, you must be silent; otherwise all of you will be killed.»

The following is also from Ecumenical News International, reporting on a talk by Frieling at Paderborn University: ««Peter was no pope, and the Pope is not the only Peter,» Frieling said, referring to the claim of the Roman Catholic Church that the popes are the successors of St. Peter, one of the disciples of Jesus.»

The pope has a right to say: «I am the successor of St. Peter!»

«We have made so many appeals (to stop self - immolations), but they are still doing it,» said Sangay, the political successor of the Dalai Lama, as the number of self - immolations by monks, nuns and others swelled to 68 since March 2011.

We beg you, let your Wisdom so illuminate our understanding that we may proclaim You to our world with renewed confidence as the Way, the Truth and the Life through your holy Catholic Church in communion with the successor of St. Peter, who said: «Lord to whom shall we go?

As Hartshorne says, and I agree, man identifies with the good of all his successor events, not only those that can be named with his name.

Newman would say, «St. Peter and his successors were and are universal bishops, that they have the whole of Christendom for their one diocese in a way in which other apostles and bishops have not» (Lectures on the Prophetical Office of the Church).

For the authority to pass the Apostolic commission down to successors: Acts 1:15 - 26 In those days Peter stood up among the brethren (the company of persons was in all about a hundred and twenty), and said, «Brethren, the scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of David, concerning Judas who was guide to those who arrested Jesus....

It is to their successors of the second generation that we have to look for most of the modest amount the New Testament church has to say on this issue.

For almost 400 years the Catholic Church thrived and grew without the Bible; then the Holy Spirit prompted the Church to gather all the inspired - by - God - Books of the Old Testament and New Testament but the Holy Spirit did not say to throw out anything that He had already told them thus far through His Apostles and Successors... no!

In the concluding book the New Testament the risen and glorified Son of God, before Whose overpowering majestic presence the prophet fell down as dead, is described as saying to one of the early churches which, like many of its successors across the centuries, was self - contented, lukewarm, neither cold nor hot, that He stood at the door and knocked, not forcing it, but waiting for it to be unlocked, and promising, if those inside would open it, to come in, eating with them and they with Him.

The Donation of Constantine professed to describe that Emperor's conversion, baptism, and healing from leprosy through Pope Sylvester I, and said that out of gratitude Constantine was handing over to the Pope and his successors the imperial palace in Rome and «the city of Rome and all the provinces, districts, and cities of the Western regions.»

Holding a lighted candle in his hand, Luther said aloud in front of the whole community: I, Brother Martin, do make profession and promise obedience to Almighty God, to Mary the Sacred Virgin, and to you, the prior of this cloister as representative of the general head of the order of Eremites of the holy bishop, St Augustine, and his rightful successors, to live until death without worldly possessions and in chastity according to the rule of St Augustine.»

If we wish to express the relation subsisting between a contemporary and his successor in the briefest possible compass, but without sacrificing accuracy to brevity, we may say: The successor believes by means of (this expresses the occasional) the testimony of the contemporary, and in virtue of the condition he himself receives from the God.

Near the traditional site of the decapitation of St. Paul, this successor to another martyr, St. Peter, said:

The early teaching and preaching of the apostles and their immediate successors was largely from the remembered sayings and doings of Jesus, at first orally transmitted, then written in various forms.

READ MORE: Chelsea FC news West Ham close in on signing of controversial midfield general; confirmation expected in next 48 hours Manchester United legend says Jasper Cillessen would be wrong choice for club; identifies ideal De Gea successor