Sentences with phrase «seen as the servants»

All regional chairmen of the party must see themselves as servants and I trust our candidate can win.

It's as if elected officials no longer see themselves as servants to the public, but instead as servants to the rich and powerful.

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Because cats are nocturnal creatures and do their roaming at night, they were seen as the servants of witches and out to harm those that the witches had cursed.

He sees himself as the servant of art: «I'm always on duty.

Judicial review — «In this we see ourselves as the servants of the sovereign legislature» keeping the Government and Executive within the powers which Parliament has given them.

Mike sees you as the servants to the other 97 % of CANADIANS.

Not exact matches

«What I heard was a tendency for users to see support staff as servants, and then to treat them in a fashion that wasn't as partners.

From Jesus» life, as well as the rest of the New Testament, I see so many examples of tangible servant leadership that I can't help but take them to heart.

Later, as the chairman of the House Republican Conference, he saw his job as being a servant to his fellow GOP lawmakers.

I can only hope that HE sees me as a good and faithful servant even with my flawed life.

REVELATION CHAPTER SIX And he open the fifth seal, and I saw under the altar the souls of those who were slain for the word of GOD and for the testimony they held and they cried out with a loud voice, how long O LORD holy and true do you not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth and white robes were given unto them and it was said unto them that they should rest a little season until their fellow servant and their brethren should be slain as they were should be fulfilled.Under racial profiling many BLACK AMERICANS were arrested and were either martyred within the prison system or were deported to AFRICA, where many of them were martyred there and were buried in mass graves in both the SUDAN and in the CONGO.

But just as they were leaving, that pesky servant girl of the High Priest came by again, and she saw me sitting there, and again she accused me.

This is the terrifying Spirit of Vatican I that really sees the Church as the Pope's personal fiefdom and him as its master rather than its servant.»

You see, the Papa needs lots of non-critical thinking servants to procreate lots of baby, Roman Catholic - bots to indoctrinate into the faith, so as adults, they too can flock in kind, to see the greatest fraud ever foisted upon the World.

Mental health should be seen as a central concern for the servant church in the last third of the twentieth century.

«She also brings strong experience of parish and cathedral life, and sees her vocational experience as nurse, civil servant, priest and bishop as a totality.»

The Bible sees Matthew Snyder as «God's servant» for our good, and his death in that just cause demonstrated his great love for the country he served.

There's a moral precision about him as a man and as a public servant; without being prissy or showy in his moralism, he sets himself to the Stoic task of seeing that the jobs at hand are those that will be done.

I challenge all readers to read the chapters preceding Isaiah 53 (chapters 41 thru 52) and you will see for yourself that the author of Isaiah is referring to the nation of Israel as the «suffering servant», not to the future messiah, and therefore, not to Jesus.

As we consider the steps by which corporations transformed themselves in the United States from servants of society into its masters, we may also see ways of avoiding a similar development in China.

Before the events of the end, Jesus undoubtedly did not see himself as anything other than the hidden servant.

As the choir sang «Amen» I went to the door of the sanctuary, and as the congregation began to file out I prayed, «Lord, let now your servant depart in peace; for my eyes have seen your salvation.&raquAs the choir sang «Amen» I went to the door of the sanctuary, and as the congregation began to file out I prayed, «Lord, let now your servant depart in peace; for my eyes have seen your salvation.&raquas the congregation began to file out I prayed, «Lord, let now your servant depart in peace; for my eyes have seen your salvation.»

I have learned that when I approach my church and the kingdom of God as servant, truly desiring nothing more than to see the Lord encounter His people and set them free, I am often privileged with the opportunities to be a chosen vessel.

The «must» in verse 31 is a divine necessity, and it comes not only from Jesus» acute estimate of the forces already set against him but also from his meditation on the great suffering servant passage of Isaiah 53 which he was beginning to see as a clue to his own ministry and life.

O when one beholds a man who protests that he has entirely understood how Christ went about in the form of a lowly servant, poor, despised, and, as the Scripture says, spat upon — when I see the same man so careful to betake himself thither where in a worldly sense it is good to be, and accommodate himself there in the utmost security, when I see him apprehensive of every puff of wind from right or left, as though his life depended upon it, and so blissful, so utterly blissful, so awfully glad — yes, to make the thing complete, so awfully glad that he is able to thank God for it — glad that he is held in honor by all men — then I have often said to myself and by myself, «Socrates, Socrates, Socrates, can it be possible that this man has understood what he says he has understood?»

Servant King is not opposed to extravagance as such, but wants to see it in the service of building the kingdom of God rather than in private consumption.

It may be that during Jesus» ministry his disciples did not fully or consciously think of him as divine, as Son or Servant of God, as Son of Man, or as Messiah: it may also be that Jesus did not explicitly see himself in any of these terms.

Since it was a limited - good society, they see the good and faithful servants as being those who exploited the poor for the benefit of the master.

Christological exegesis, when applied to the Old Testament, often takes the form of typological exegesis in which the acts of God in Old Testament history as well as the prophecies of his servants are seen to have their fulfillment in Jesus Christ.

Does this mean that Jesus saw women only as servants and slaves?

I see God as the Patron, and the issue of talents as an allegorical way of expressing activity for the Kingdom of God using familiar social realities (but in keeping with Mark 4:10 - 12, 24 and Matthew 13:11 - 16, the peasants may have taken it too literally and thus missed the whole point — thinking that the unprofitable servant is the hero when he's really not).

The first letter of Peter was written to a suffering church, which is why, as we shall see, it has so much to say about Jesus as the Suffering Servant.

Once we take into account the capacity of the ancient Jewish mind to create a story as a way of expounding and showing the relevance of a Biblical text (this practice will be described in Chapter 9), it is not at all difficult to see how the story of Joseph of Arimathea could have been partly shaped by Isaiah 53:9, «And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death,» found in the famous chapter on the suffering servant, which was certainly interpreted by the early Christians as a prophecy of the death of Jesus.

See John 20:30; Mark 16:17 - 20; John 2:11; Acts 2:22: («Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know»); Acts 2:43: -LRB-»... and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles»); Acts 4:29 - 30: «And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy hold child Jesus»); Hebrews 2:3 - 4: («How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him: God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will»); Romans 15:17 - 19: («I have therefor whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.

We see it foreshadowed in Second Isaiah's portrayal of the Suffering Servant as the true Messiah.

When Mary and Joseph took their infant son to be baptised in the temple, Simeon blessed Jesus by saying the «Nunc dimittis»: «Now, Master, you are letting your servant go in peace / as you promised; / for my eyes have seen the salvation / which you have made ready in the sight of the nations; / a light of revelation for the gentiles / and glory for your people Israel.»

In the Qur» an you will see that often the first person singular such as I or My is used, when Allah speaks about His love, care and closeness and forgiveness for His servants.

As is describe in (Isaiah 53:10), of the servant that's chosen from YHWH, he too will «prolong his days» if he converts to the law of righteousness, as he shall see his «seed» this means when he realizes who he iAs is describe in (Isaiah 53:10), of the servant that's chosen from YHWH, he too will «prolong his days» if he converts to the law of righteousness, as he shall see his «seed» this means when he realizes who he ias he shall see his «seed» this means when he realizes who he is.

Great to have people dedicating their lives to seeking God and sharing their experiences with the rest of us, but a long tradition of seeing those people as either infallible, or personal servants is going to mean that people expect, and demand, far more than that... or else.

Isa 53:11 As a result of the anguish of His soul, He will see it and be satisfied; By His knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, will justify the many, As He will bear their iniquities.

The ox as a beast of burden belongs most appropriately to Mark, who sees Jesus as the servant of the God who sent him, while the man should be given to Luke, who presents Jesus to the Gentiles as the universal man.

Indeed, for Berrigan the true Jew is ethically pure, a «suffering servant»; and in fact he sees himself as a true Jew in that sense, which also defines Christianity for him.

Directors of state lotteries now see themselves not as public servants, but as corporate managers of a billion - dollar industry who should do everything possible to maximize lottery revenue.

The father sees his son returning and while his son is still a long way off in the distance, the father runs to throw his arms around him, refuting his claims that he's no longer being worthy of sonship by urging the servants to restore the family robes to him as soon as possible.

«If their experience of the God of Islam is negative and harsh with the love of Christ seen as a contrast to their understanding, then they may turn away from Allah to embrace the servant God who cares for all nations.

He did not see the office of pope as something to be grasped, but instead made himself nothing, taking on the very nature of a servant, which is an imitation of Jesus Christ (Philippians 2:5 - 11).

On the other hand, we read here several poems hardly distinguishable from the work of Second Isaiah; and we must conclude, therefore, that Isaiah 56 - 66 comes out of continuing Isaianic circles of prophetism surviving the sixth - century debacle, and had as its nucleus a small collection of Second Isaiah's oracles not incorporated in 40 - 55 and perhaps of somewhat later origin (see especially the three chapters, 60 - 62, and the Servant Song in 61:1 - 4).

But because they get too literal with the Parable of the Talents, they see this patron as a cruel human who wants to exploit the poor through his other servants, and the unprofitable servant who refuses to do so is the one we should give a cup of cold water to in the next parable, the Sheep and the Goats.

The tall but not very mobile defender has been a good servant for the Gunners but I don't think too many fans would be that upset to see him go, as long as Arsenal have strong cover.