What, then, was this constitution of the human mind, that could thus receive and act upon a divine command; and what is it now?
And in this origin of the social and the self-regarding virtues, which I understand you to say is the theory of Darwin, is the idea of a divine command to practice certain things, and to avoid doing certain other things, left out?
The Sabbath was founded on a specific, divine command.
David himself had been anointed by Divine command to be king of Israel, and he thus became the founder of the only legitimate dynasty of Hebrew kings.
Now the last of the Patriarchs, mourning for the sufferings of his people, came by Divine command to the Jebusite to purchase the ground on which to offer sacrifices, that the plague might be stayed from the people.
Divine command relative to generation, they awaited the special command relative to time.
Divine command in respect of any corporeal creature; which is part of the execution of the Divine ministry.
The whole of life was compressed into a certain holy path; there was always a divine command to be fulfilled, and by thinking of it a man kept himself from following after the desires and lusts of his own heart.
The whole of life was directed in a definite sacred path; every moment there was a divine command to fulfil, and this kept a man from following too much the thoughts and desires of his own heart.
Thus we see that the primary movement towards enforcing the observance of Sunday, or Lord's Day, as the Sabbath, did not originate in a Divine command, but in the edict of an earthly potentate.
Should it be said, that a community is prohibited by divine command; I would answer that it is not presumable that the old Britons had any positiv revelation; and I do not know that the law of nature will decide against their practice.
A divine command givs a sanction to the law; but the propriety of it existed prior to the command.
I consider morality merely as it respects society; for if we superadd the obligations of a divine command, we blend it with religion; an article in which Christians have an infinit advantage over savages.
Obedience to parents is a divine command, given in both the Old and the New Testaments.
To sweat, was a divine command as much so as to pray; and in his life he exemplified in the highest degree that simple Christian life that makes for the physical, mental, and moral well-being of man.
Henceforth he was to speak in the name of the Lord, and act by the authority of divine command.
If he preached, he preached in the name of God; if he dug ditches and tilled the earth, it was equally in obedience to a divine command.
After she had been sent away by Divine command, God said unto Abraham--"now walk before me and be thou perfect.
That was another command establishing and sanctioning polygamy, sanctioning it by Divine command.
If the claim of Muhammad to have received a divine command to exterminate idolatry by the slaughter of all impenitent idolaters be admitted, I can see no objection to his practice.
III, page 229 footnote) "that this verse is rather in a recitative style of a past event," and not a divine command to marry Zeinab.
Mohammad never professed to have received a divine command to marry Zeinab.
So far the prophet had proceeded in simple obedience to a Divine command to fulfil an obligation which otherwise might excusably have been neglected.
The opportunity might be a Divine command to proceed with the redemption.
The solemn and formal appeal to fulfil a kinsman's duty towards the family inheritance came to him as a Divine command: "I knew that this was the word of Jehovah.
Therefore it must also be false, that it is a divine command to be in connection with the Roman Church.
Thus are we German fools to be led by the nose and then they say: It is a divine command to have no bishop without Roman confirmation.
But since it means money, everything they dare to put forth must be divine command.
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