Pomare was still an idolater when many of his subjects had been converted.
Before that I was a gross idolater and cannibal; there was no wickedness I did not do.
Yet, the grandson of Moses was not an idolater of ordinary calibre.
So every child who believes in God is of necessity an idolater or at least he regards the Deity as a man, and when once the imagination has perceived God, it is very seldom that the understanding conceives him.
As the idolater gives what he loves best to the shrine of the object of his worship, so the lover is not content to see perfection in his mistress, he must be ever trying to add to her adornment.
Abraham, the patriarch, an idolater in his youth, 95, n.
That Azer, or Terah, was anidolater is allowed on all hands; nor can it be denied, since he is expressly said in scripture to have served strange gods.
That no idolateris to come near the temple of Mecca after this year; 2.
The most gross idolater had a hunger and thirst after righteousness, and burnt his children or sacrificed his purity to satisfy the vague promptings of his unenlightened conscience.
Indeed, degrees do not measure the mental difference between an idolater and him who serves with his mind, as well as with all his heart and soul, One God, Maker of heaven and earth: it is a difference that is absolute.
The arch-idolater who made idols of his own rebuked Pombo in the name of Man for having broken his idols--"for hath not Man made them?
Pombo the iconoclast immediately left his house, leaving his idols to be swept away with the dust and so to mingle with Man, and went to an arch-idolater of repute who carved idols out of rare stones, and put his case before him.
Whether Pombo knew about this etiquette and considered it frivolous in the face of his need, or whether his need, now grown desperate, unhinged his mind, I know not, but Pombo the idolatertook a stick and suddenly turned iconoclast.
There remains untorn by the idolater no more than the breadth of my fingernail.
It is probable that this passage should be thus understood, "The king sent him a pilot, who was an idolater from Guzerate, &c.
This person, though an idolater and a stranger, had come aboard our fleet with the intention of becoming a Christian, and of going into Portugal, and our general had him baptised by the name of Michael.
Bontaybo applied the same significant term of kafr to the image worshippers of all denominations, without discriminating one species of idolater from another.
The strong imagination of Shelley made him an idolaterin his own despite.
We trust, however, that this feeling will not betray us into that abject idolatry which we have often had occasion to reprehend in others, and which seldom fails to make both the idolater and the idol ridiculous.
It is, therefore, no more sinful to be an idolater than to be a child.
The object is simply to keep the images of our friends impressed on our minds in their absence; and the same motive actuates the idolater in making supposed images of an absent God.
Like the Roman Christian, he believes in the divinity of the Virgin Mary, and consequently he is an idolater and no idolater can be admitted into the kingdom of 'Heaven.
Behold, this man is fair in my sight, and it is good for the chosen of the Lord to take the idolater into his bosom.
How long," she would say, "since thou didst reject the good Atsu because he is an idolater and an Egyptian?
The idolater saw in the material image his God; the philosopher declared that God was everywhere present, and he despised the idol.
Yes; it is mortifying to a woman who knows herself to be virtuous, and is an idolater of virtue, to pay the penalty of vice, and be thought unworthy to associate with the relations of the man whom she loves.
Departing from thence we went to the city of Cananore, where the king of Portugal has a strong garrison, though the king of the city is an idolaterand no great friend to the Portuguese.
The king is an idolater of great power, and is constantly at war with the kings of Narsinga and Bengal[86].
But how are we to understand the idolater who adores, and claims actual divinity for, an emanation from his own brain and the brains of a certain number of like-minded persons?
Knox came to his old stand, "the idolater must die the death," and the executioners must be "the people of God.
I would your Honours should note for the first, that no idolater can be exempted from punishment by God's Law.
Moreover, "no idolater can be exempted from punishment by God's law.
Indeed, one fancies that his opinions and character would have been in conflict if a chance of handing an idolater over to death had been offered to him.
Because he places his confidence, his trust, in his money rather than in the living God, whose promises concerning ample support are abundant, his real God is his money, and to call him an idolater is entirely just.
The unhappy idolateralone is servant to his possessions; his sin is to save, guard and preserve property.
New Zealand savage and an Englishman,--between the grossest idolater and the most enlightened Christian.
For the idolater does not deny the existence of God; he merely makes the mistake of supposing that the image of his own construction resembles a being which mediates between him and God.
When Amaziah turned idolater and tyrant, after the time that he turned away from the Lord, they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent to Lachish after him and slew him there, Chron.
Hence, a fortiori, if people may conspire and concur in executing judgment upon their king turning idolater and tyrant, then much more must they defend themselves against his violence.
Hence I take an argument a fortiori, if people may conspire and concur in executing judgment upon their king turning idolater and tyrant, then much more may they revolt from him; but this example clears the antecedent: therefore.
The Mohammedan shared this abhorrence, because he denounced the Christian as an idolater for his belief in our Lord, as Son of God.
We can only imagine something very near it, by trying to realise in our minds the feelings of an enlightened Christian whom an idolater might be trying to convert to his gross, superstitious cult.
Quoth an Arab idolater of the Banu Ghifar: "I went with one of my cousins to the top of a hill overlooking the battlefield, so as to find out which side was victorious, meaning to join the conquerors and plunder the vanquished.
The Quraish flag was laid out on the ground, close to a heap of dead bodies, and no idolater dared to lift the banner.
Ahab made a treaty with him, instead of taking his life, for which the prophet of the Lord predicted evil upon him and his people.
Baal, and died after a short and inglorious reign, B.
Fearing a new war in Asia, Cæsar waited to collect his forces, and then embarked for Egypt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "idolater" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
