The service consisted in reading of portions of the Old Testament, and at a later period, portions of the Apostolic Epistles and Gospels, and in connection therewith, doctrinal and hortatory discourses, with prayer and singing of psalms.
These writings had a more theological and scientific character than those of the Apostolic Fathers, which had more of a practical and hortatory tendency.
Among his other dogmatical, polemical and hortatory church addresses the most celebrated are the 21 De Statuis ad populum Antiochen, delivered in A.
The Gospel of John, although never mentioned, was not unknown to him, but it appeared to him more as a doctrinal and hortatory treatise than as a historical document, and undoubtedly his Logos doctrine is connected with that of John.
Extracts from his hortatory letters which he published proved to Russians that his day was over.
The shoals of telegrams, reports of proceedings of societies, hortatory letters, crankish proposals, and peace pamphlets from America continue.
Another wave of newcomers swept her onward, stillhortatory and gesticulatory.
You are robbing us of the better part of this woman,” interrupted the hortatory spinster in a dramatic contralto.
This section, though still moving largely among ritual interests, differs markedly from the rest of the book, partly by reason of its hortatory setting (cf.
The hortatory section that follows the legislation (xxix.
This hortatory introduction is succeeded by the specific laws which form the main body of the book (xii.
Akin to these hortatory epigrams, in their tone of settled melancholy, are some of the satiric and convivial.
Closely allied in point of subject to many of the epitaphs are the so-called hortatory epigrams, #epigrammata protreptika#.
The book is thus almost wholly in the form of address, and the hortatory note is insistent.
Deuteronomy and Joshua suggests that this would take the form of a hortatory address such as Moses and Joshua deliver as their testament to the people.
The Hortatory section includes a score of hexameter and iambic fragments, some of them proverbial lines, others extracts from the tragedians.
Protreptika}, hortatory pieces; the "criticism of life" in the direct sense.
Pater Familias put out one foot; lifted a hortatory hand.
The general purpose is to prove that "edifying passages from the old Ionic hortatorywriters seem to have been introduced into Homer.
In the strength of the adduced experience, a hortatory tone, dropped since ver.
Divine voice, or perhaps better, as the resumption by the psalmist of his hortatory address.
Henry II (of England) and his consort, Hildegard’s hortatory letters to, 5.
Special occasion for such a hortatory letter may be discerned in its polemic against intimate relations between ascetics of opposite sex, implied to exist among its readers, in contrast to usage in the writer's own locality.
The Hortatory Address to the Greeks is an appeal to them to give up the worship of their gods, and to devote themselves to the worship of the one living and true God.
Hence we may conclude that the original book consisted of a central mass of religious, civil and social laws, preceded by a hortatory introduction and followed by an effective peroration.
There are certainly striking marks of genius and literary skill displayed in the management of the main story--while in some of the details and hortatory parts there are no less unequivocal marks of bungling and botch work.
Side-note: The Athenian declares that he will not merely promulgate peremptory laws, but will recommend them to the citizens by prologues or hortatory discourses.
He either prefixes a prologue to each of his laws--or blends the law with its proem--or gives what may be called a proem without a law, that is a string of hortatory or comminatory precepts.
The epistles of the apostles are either hortatory or argumentative.
He had to do, therefore, more prominently not with the administrators of law, but with the people; and accordingly his precepts assume a hortatory character, and his style becomes more diffuse and flowing.
In perfect harmony with this are the grandeur and dignity of its style, its hortatory character, and the exquisite tenderness and pathos that pervade every part of it.
In Smith's Essay, the purely scientific enquiry is overlaid by practical and hortatory dissertations, and by eloquent delineations of character and of beau-ideals of virtuous conduct.
Taken as a whole, it develops the promises and threats of the previous chapters, and repeats again with affectionate hortatory purpose much of the history.
Under these circumstances, it was not merely natural that the author of Deuteronomy should dwell with insistence upon the hortatorypart of his book; it was necessary.
The hortatory chapters are really the most original part of the book, and exhibit what was most permanent in it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hortatory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
