It has two objects in view—first, by carrying the gospel to our colonists to prevent christians from becoming heathens in faith and practice; second, to make heathens christians.
For we are the children of saints, and we must not be joined together like heathens that know not God.
And every man said to his neighbour: If we shall all do as our brethren have done, and not fight against the heathens for our lives, and our justifications, they will now quickly root us out of the earth.
An admonition to the newly converted Christians, lest conversing with heathens and idolaters, they might fall back into the sin of idolatry, which may be the sin unto death here mentioned by St. John.
Then all the heathens that were round about them, sought to destroy them.
Thus saith the Lord: Learn not according to the ways of the Gentiles: and be not afraid of the signs of heaven, which the heathens fear: 10:3.
But he threw down the altars which the heathens had set up in the streets, as also the temples of the idols.
In those days there went out of Israel wicked men, and they persuaded many, saying: Let us go and make a covenant with the heathens that are round about us: for since we departed from them, many evils have befallen us.
And there fell of the heathens almost three thousand men, and he took the spoils of them.
God is not contained in temples; so as to need them for his dwelling, or any other uses, as the heathens imagined.
And Simon went into Galilee, and fought many battles with the heathens: and the heathens were discomfited before his face, and he pursued them even to the gate of Ptolemais.
But the things which the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils and not to God.
And he passed over to them first, and all the people after him, and all the heathens were discomfited before them, and they threw away their weapons, and fled to the temple that was in Carnaim.
I will avenge then my nation and the sanctuary, and our children, and wives: for all the heathens are gathered together to destroy us out of mere malice.
A party of Heathens assembled and made a great display of fishing on the Lord's Day, in contempt of the practice of the men on Jehovah's side, threatening also to waylay the Teachers and myself in our village circuits.
THE prejudices and persecutions of Heathens were a sore enough trial, but sorer and more hopeless was the wicked and contaminating influence of, alas, my fellow-countrymen.
Those benighted heathens will really believe that you are something unearthly.
Never was there more misery, and never heathens acted worse than these.
He also further observes presently, what great regard many heathens had to the monuments of their forefathers, as Nehemiah had here, sect.
When therefore the heathens were to make them a donative of oil,: they paid them money instead of it.
For some of the doctrines of the heathens are spurious imitations or superstitious inventions, which we must be careful to avoid when we renounce the society of the heathens.
Be not afraid of the signs of heaven, which the heathens fear.
There were men among the oldheathens who believed in one God; and some of them saw that he must be, on the whole, a good and a just God.
The heathens never LOVED their gods: they admired them, thanked them when they thought they helped them; or they were afraid of them when they thought they were offended.
When the army was gathered of each people, then were they there in a heap an hundred thousand, heathens and christians, with Modred the king.
The king loved theheathens and harmed the Christians, the heathens had all this land to rule under their hand, and the king's three sons oft suffered sorrow and care.
Some of the heathens went to the wood, where the folk on foot laid them to ground.
When Hengest saw the heathens recede, and the Christian men come upon them, then fled Hengest through and through, until he came to Coningsburgh; in the burgh he went, safety to obtain.
Scattered over the whole of Southern Syria there were a number of Jewish localities on which the heathens now proceeded to wreak their vengeance.
But now this was by no means a thing of course, the danger was a pressing one that the Jewish exiles, like the Samaritan exiles before them, would be absorbed by the heathens among whom they dwelt.
Were not her own sentiments the true and right ones; had her intercourse with these heathens tainted her?
The heathens ascribed the inundation of the Nile to their god Serapis; and the pillar on which was marked the increase, was preserved religiously in the temple of that idol.
In which sense the heathens probably might use it likewise to ridicule the Christian doctrine of the resurrection; on which, they * Arrius Antonin.
Nor was it only the heathens that thus reviled them, but commonly every perverse sect among the Christians had some reproachful name to cast upon them.
In the acts of the famous martyrs of Lyons, who suffered under Antoninus Pius, the heathens scornfully insult it with this character.
I was not anxious, however, on my own account, but I could not help reflecting on the sad condition to which Mary would be reduced should her father and I be cut off, as we might too probably be if the heathens gained the victory.
This we do not find them to be, but they areheathens given up to gross superstition, and are ignorant and immoral.
The heathens also assembled, and stood at a distance trembling, in the expectation that something dreadful would happen.
Yes, I am sure, by God's grace, and through the instrumentality of human ministers and His book, these dark heathens may become enlightened worshippers of Him.
That they were still savage heathens there could be no doubt.
A few years have passed by, the heathens have one by one turned to the truth, and sound scriptural knowledge is possessed by the population generally.
The heathens said that they had committed suicide, and were drowned, but judging from Vihala's generally consistent character, I felt sure that that was not the case.
Suffice it to say that, like other heathens who know not God, they give themselves up to work all manner of abominations without constraint or shame.
Still many at that time were very ignorant with regard to scriptural knowledge, though many even of theheathens could read.
It had been ascertained also that a canoe manned byheathens had left the island some time back, but where they had gone was not known.
Not unless the heathens get faith enough to believe, and faith is a thing you cannot send out through the mails as if it was sample packages of patent medicine!
We have ever found these heathens more easily converted by gentle persuasions than by violent assaults on their prejudices; and father Olmedo has shown us how persecution strengthens instead of overturning an abused superstition.
It has always been my thought, that heathens who never did, nor without miracle could, hear of the name of Christ, were yet in a possibility of salvation.
And now for what concerns the holy bishop Athanasius; the preface of whose creed seems inconsistent with my opinion; which is, that heathens may possibly be saved.
Else how com'st thou to see these truths so clear, Which so obscure to heathens did appear?
With a cry to their idol Termagaunt, The heathens plunge, but with scanty vaunt.
The heathens fled, the Franks pursued, And in Val Tenèbres beside them stood; Towards Saragossa the rout they drave, And deadly were the strokes they gave.
Through the land they ride in hot pursuit, And the heathens feel 'tis a fierce dispute.
But of all the heathens none spake word Save Blancandrin, Val Fonde's lord.
The heathens in siege have the town essayed And the shattered Christians invoke thine aid.
The Bohemian struggles were mainly concerned with the rivalry between heathens and Christians.
The truth is, the ancient heathens considered religion entirely as an affair of state, as much under the tuition of the magistrate as any other part of the police.
This seems to be nearly the same ceremony which prevailed among the Heathens in the days of Job.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heathens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
