Sentences with phrase «seated upon a throne»

One college student wrote, «I have always pictured him according to a description in Paradise Lost as seated upon a throne, while around are angels playing on harps and singing hymns.»

In a great festival, evidently that of Sukkoth, the king ritually enacted the part of God's coming among his people and ceremonially taking his seat upon his throne in the Temple.

Not exact matches

If by God's «glory» we understand a majestic court scene in which God is seated upon a great throne, lording it over the creation and gloating in his divine magnificence, then the phrase suggests ideas that are the exact opposite of the «Galilean vision» of the Love which is self - giving, gladly receptive, utterly ungrudging in generous openness to all that occurs in the created order.

He goes then to the world of Brahma but he is seated upon his lotus throne surrounded by all the gods, and, filled with pride, does not even acknowledge the homage of Bhrgu.

And although here upon earth he be not honored with the chief seat, he will sit down on the four - and - twenty thrones, judging the people, as John says in the Apocalypse.72