Sentences with phrase «subjects of the king»

it does not matter if you accept the necessity of WW2, or if you consider yourself an american rather than a subject of the king of Briton.

But here they are applied to those who desire to be subjects of the king and citizens in the heavenly kingdom.

British ships often seized any seamen on American ships thought to be subjects of King George and forced them to serve in the Royal Navy.

It was «perhaps almost a unique proceeding for an alien», for though born in London, he was a subject of the King of Sardinia, whose house his family had long served.

Not exact matches

To hit this point home further and to commemorate the nation's annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, who spoke fervently against racial and economic inequality, here's a sampling of his thoughts on the subject:

Just this week John Bogle, the king of index funds, had the following to say on the subject:

In the ad, a Game of Thrones parody, subjects bearing gifts approach the king one - by - one.

He is the King of the Kingdom and all believers are his subjects.

The covenant relationships between God and His people are similar to the type of relationship that exists between a king and his subjects.

One of our Articles of Faith states, «We believe in being subjects to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.»

Jesus Christ, during the time of His earthly ministry, set up a spiritual kingdom on earth, in fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy; He being the King and all born again believers the subjects of the Kingdom, and they are now reigning with Him as Kings and priests on the earth.

Farrow has particularly harsh words for King Henry VIII, who «exalted himself, Uzziah - like, before God» and who «attempted to rule over the souls of his subjects that he might rule also over their bodies.»

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The upshot of this doctrine, perhaps the most disturbing that the human mind can hold, is that king and commoner are equally subject to the moral law.

In the 1500s, King Sigismund of Transylvania, who was converted to Unitarianism by his court minister, issued the world's first Edict of Religious Toleration, allowing his subjects to choose to observe religions other than the King's.

If the kingdom can be taken here to mean the community of subjects of the heavenly King, then the contrast may be between the little band of disciples and the vast host expected to share in the final redemption.

Before long, the king was baptized and many of his subjects followed his example.

Two other ancient prayers, the eleventh of the Eighteen Benedictions, from the period before the destruction of the Temple in AD 70, and the Alenu prayer, probably from the third century AD, both use a form of the verb mlk, «to reign, be king», with God as the subject.

He immediately became the King of the Spiritual Kingdom of God and every believer from then until now, and forevermore, are subjects of his kingdom.

They were helpless sheep, tenderly cared for and protected; but they were also subjects of the Supreme Ruler of the Universe; indeed they were the King's sons, with whom it was his sovereign will and fatherly pleasure to share his own royal authority and power.

This gave them the power of state to rule and govern all the king's subjects residing within the limits of the colony which they were to establish.

So the models of God as Father and as Judge can to some extent be merged, or perhaps included in a wider image — an ideal King, for example, who is both loving and just to his subjects.

The basic identity of thought and king, the unity of subject and object, and the possibility of immediate awareness by participation, which are assumptions of Western idealism from Plato to Hegel, are all fundamental to Tillich's viewpoint.

The king was not to be exalted in self - importance above his subjects; he should be at pains to obey all the words of the Deuteronomic code with its rich social implications; and, further, the book was to be kept at hand as a sort of constitution of the kingdom that would guide and limit the monarch's rule.

I am a great admirer of James White for the work he did on the King James only controversy which I first saw on the Johnny Ankerberg show and then I purchased his book on the subject.

The monarchs of the Davidic kingdoms were constantly subjected to the pressures and temptations by the despotic rules of the empires and kingdoms surrounding the people of Israel (I Kings 21:1 - 15).

Kings would often place images of themselves, usually statues, in distant parts of their kingdoms to remind their subjects of their sovereignty over the land.

We may remark in chapter 14 the reflection of Joab's deep devotion to David (14:1); the implication of the king's accessibility to his subjects (v. 4); the stratagem which Joab and the wise woman of Tekoa employ, strongly reminiscent of Nathan's parable (vv.

The message of every prophet, Moses, Samuel, Nathan, and Elijah as well as those who came later, was to every individual within the community of Israel, and neither king nor humblest subject was exempt from the obligation to obey the will of Yahweh.

Hazael is not a poor figure of a king subjected to an ineluctable fate.

The king resides in the presence of his subjects.

Two hundred and fifty years before Christ, King Asoka, one of the noblest figures in world history and the great promulgator of Buddhism, proclaimed to his subjects not only tolerance but also love for other religions.

Would King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella have been better stewards of their funds if they had provided canoes, skiffs or punts for all of their subjects?

Primarily, therefore, the «man» and «son of man» of Psalm 8 is also the king, whose sacred office endows him with the resources of divine power not just over his human subjects but over all other creatures within his domain; and it is only his sins which cause this power to be withheld.

The feudal kingdom was translated into the hierarchy of marriage and parenthood, where women and children were subject to the domestic king.

The peoples subject to it were able to remember times when their own kings had ruled them, and with the passage of time, past misrule tended to be forgotten.

The Chronicler reports an act of rebellion, or suspected rebellion; but if true, his relationship to Assyria as a subject king in good standing was quickly restored.

The law of England wisely and religiously concurs that no man hath a power to destroy life but by commission from God, the author of it, and as their suicide is guilty of a double offence, one spiritual, in evading the prerogative of the Almighty and rushing into his immediate presence uncalled for, the other temporal against the King, who hath an interest in the preservation of all his subjects [Commentaries, Book 4, Chapter 14].

More simply, he denied the king's claim of final authority and announced instead the supremacy of the will of the Lord, a law that bound the reigning monarch not less than his humblest subject.

During this period also the books of Samuel and Kings which had been worked over under Deuteronomic influence were subjected to further editing by priestly redactors.

But these schools also served to train the modern officers which the King needed to form an army capable of conquering the island and reinforcing the instruments of a state whose authority was subject to much opposition.

Plaza Mayor, the heart of the city, was just down the street from an apartment I rented and offered coffee and a newspaper at a café where blood once spilled from public executions and bullfights that took place not so long ago before a king and his subjects.

It was a peace treaty and a political settlement, aimed at bringing to an end months of conflict between the despotic king and his defiant subjects.

So you see, we live in an arrangement of rulers and subjects, just like Kings and their subjects back in the day.

The king sat at the apex of the legal system, guaranteeing justice to his subjects, without being subject to the laws that he interpreted and administered.

Bronx Councilman Andy King subjected a female Council staffer to «unwelcome attention,» including gripping her hand to force her to smile and asking to see her in a «beautiful gown,» according to details of a complaint released by the Ethics Committee.

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Present at the monarchs meeting were HRM, Pere Dr. Charles Ayemi - Botu (OFR), paramount ruler of Seimbiri Kingdom, HRM King I. Timiyan (JP), Ebenanaowei of Ogulagha Kingdom and Chief Wellington Okrika, representing Gbaramatu Kingdom, who collectively affirmed that Clark as an Ijaw, was their subject and could not dictate to them.

The NYC Council is launching an investigation into misconduct allegations against Bronx Democratic Councilman Andy King, who was the subject of a sexual harassment complaint two years ago.

Condemnation trailing the bending of the mornachs in the photo shoot, however, harped on why the royal fathers will subject themselves to such demeaning level inspite of their status as kings.