Sentences with phrase «which pious men»

There may be something to learn from all this about the way in which pious men rebel against the idea of divine, incarnational authority and activity living on down the centuries in the Church.

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Then, pious as it is to think of Him, while the pageant of experiment or abstract reasoning passes by, still such piety is nothing more than a poetry of thought, or an ornament of language, a certain view taken of Nature which one man has and another has not, which gifted minds strike out, which others see to be admirable and ingenious, and which all would be the better for adopting.

There are three poems (Isaiah 42.1 - 4, 49.1 - 6, 50.4 - 11) in which the prophet, who lived in the age of the Babylonian Captivity, describes this pious man, God's «chosen one» who will bring justice to all nations, who has an «instructed tongue» and a «mouth like a sharpened sword», and who has been able to suffer humiliation because he relied on God.

If there should be a place having a few faithful men in it, before the multitude sufficiently increase to vote (psephisasthai), who shall be able to make a dedication to pious uses for the bishop to the extent of twelve men, let them write to the churches round about them, informing them of the place in which the multitude of the faithful [assemble and] are established that their chosen men in that place may come, that they may examine with diligence him who is worthy of this grade.119

Contemporary loneliness isn't romantic enough to believe that the happiness these pets instantly bring their adoptive owners will have any kind of half - life: Elliot is the child of divorce and Opal the product of a misbegotten union between a pious man and a secular woman, both of which are unpleasantly modern relative to the cattle drive that whisks the dad away from his family in Old Yeller.