By nature he knew each ascension Of the equinoctial in thilke town; For when degrees fifteene were ascended, Then crew he, that it might not be amended.
The staircase height of each of the houses we have referred to is about sixty feet, a fatiguing ascension even for the lightest of us.
Thus it is seen that the ascension varies inversely with the angle between the plates; i.
You notice the water ascends in each to a different height, and that the ascension varies inversely as the diameter of the bore; i.
The Holy Ghost came down upon the Apostles ten days after the Ascension of our Lord; and the day on which He came down upon the Apostles is called Whitsunday, or Pentecost.
After forty days Christ ascended into heaven, and the day on which He ascended into heaven is called Ascension day.
The ascension of our Lord was an event quite distinct from the resurrection; it occurred nearly six weeks later, and indicates a number of supremely important truths.
The ascension should therefore remind us of the limitless power of Christ.
It was therefore at the time of the ascension that Jesus entered “into his glory.
The ascension should make us feel that Jesus is near rather than far away.
Jesus was always indicating the fact that there would be a long delay after his ascension before he would return, and that meanwhile his followers should be faithful to the opportunities granted them for serving their Master.
There was high festival at Rome fromAscension Day to Whitsuntide.
The great apostle, it will be remembered, spent two years after our Lord’s ascension in preaching the Gospel at Jerusalem and throughout Judea.
He confirmed the loss of the Ascension and her pinnace, which was no small grief to me.
Being arrived there, they went ashore, and remained twenty days, where they procured good refreshing, being always in hopes of the coming of the Ascension and pinnace, but were disappointed.
As these vessels separated at the Cape of Good Hope, and the Ascensionwas cast away in the bay of Cambaya, they may be considered as separate voyages, of which we have distinct relations.
The former of these journals, written on board the admiral, confines itself chiefly to Captain Middleton's transactions at Bantam and the Moluccas; having sent Captain Colthurst in the Ascension to Banda.
Before its arrival, news came that the Ascension was cast away, and her men saved, but were not allowed to come to Surat.
He said farther, that the Ascension had sold all her goods there at high prices, and came so light to Tamarin as to require much ballast.
But I ought to have previously mentioned, that, on the 23d, it was agreed the Dragon and Ascension were to be sent to the Moluccas, and the Hector and Susan to be loaded with pepper, and sent home.
Giuen at Norham the wednesday next after the feast of the Ascension of our Lord, in the yeare of Grace, 1291.
Giuen at Norham, the tuesdaie next after the feast of the Ascension of our Lord, in the yeare of Grace, 1291.
On the evening of the Ascension of the Lord they ascended a mountain along a very narrow road, in great fear that the narrowness of the path might prevent them from evading any enemies they might meet at the end of the road.
On that very day, however, the sabbath after the Ascension of Our Lord, the entrance of that gate was being guarded by the Count of Saint-Gilles and the Bishop of Puy.
After theAscension Philip preached in Phrygia, and was known to Polycarp, and attained a great age.
When the Tuesday before the ascension of our Lord came, he began to suffer more in his breath, and a small swelling appeared in his feet.
John did the same thing at his coronation on Ascension Day.
Our Lord replied that He could not come, for His mission to the Jews must be fulfilled; but after His Ascension He would send one of His disciples, who would cure him and all that were with him.
They also believed that on Easter Day the lands all round Cairo and the Nile throw up their dead and continue to do so till Ascension Day.
The stable of Bethlehem, the garden of Gethsemane, the height where the Ascension took place, had a fascination for every eye.
After the Ascension James is said to have left Judaea and visited Spain.
He went after the Ascension as an apostle to the Indies and Persia.
A trip to Chatou was arranged for Ascension Day, May 18, by the train leaving Paris from the St. Lazare Station, at half-past eight in the evening.
By what was perhaps more than coincidence, Ascension Day, May 18, was selected as the day for the crime itself.
Mace answered coldly that he would have to explain how he had employed his time on Ascension Day.
His death to be followed by His glorious resurrection and ascension by the descent of the Holy Ghost, and the call of the Gentiles.
Even on Ascension day they still cherished this hope, as we learn from the Acts: "Lord, wilt Thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
Christ by his death, resurrection, and ascension opened heaven, and made ready a place for man.
All who retain the good old custom of the fathers in reading Luther's Postil sermons on the Gospel and Epistle texts for each Sunday know what deep missionary thoughts are found in the sermons for Epiphany, Ascension Day and Pentecost.
This epistle text is simply a narrative concerning the visible ascension of Christ into heaven.
The ascensionis claimed as a myth founded upon the Old Testament precedents of the translation of Enoch and the ascension of Elijah, and the pagan apotheosis of Hercules and Romulus.
Meanwhile, the preparations for the horizontal balloonascension had gone on.
In the third he painted the Ascension of Christ, while the fourth represents the Descent of the Holy Spirit, remarkable for the fine attitudes of the Jews, who are endeavouring to enter the door.
Domini est terra Ascension Day, evening (Prayer Book) The joy of the Church and of the angels in the Ascension of Christ, the King of Glory.
Ascension Day completes the triumph of man raised to immortality through his union with God in Christ.
Ascension Day, morning (Prayer Book) The human perfections of Christ, enthroned in heaven as the Son of Man.
They suggest that the Ascension of Christ, while it gathers into itself all the moral victories of the past, is the beginning of a new order.
Then there is another miracle that I cannot believe in, and that is the ascension--the bodilyascension of Jesus Christ.
The ascensionwas the most striking, the grandest of the miracles, if true, yet the ascension is only recorded by two of these writers.
My ascension was majestic, to an uncommon degree of tardiness.
In the year of the Lord 1408, on the Vigil of Ascension Day, Brother William Vorniken, from the Monastery at Windesem, was chosen to be Prior of Mount St. Agnes.
One of these dates begins with the command of Artaxerxes to Ezra to rebuild Jerusalem: this is the seventy weeks which came to an end with the ascension of Christ, when by His martyrdom the sacrifice and oblation ceased.
Therefore, it may be said that the ascension of the Holy Manifestation is simply the leaving of this elemental form.
But after His ascension the bejeweled crowns of all the kings were humbled and bowed before the crown of thorns.
This Pole Star and itsascension are sensible things.
In the same way, His resurrection from the interior of the earth is also symbolical; it is a spiritual and divine fact, and not material; and likewise His ascension to heaven is a spiritual and not material ascension.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ascension" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
