Some suppose that Baal was the same god as Moloch, to whom human sacrifices were offered, and whose worship also consisted principally of purifications, mutilations, perpetual virginity, and ordealsby fire.
They were illiterate and ignorant, undergoing cruel ordeals and experiences.
To enable human souls to attain the supreme degree of advancement, they have suffered during their limited years extreme ordeals and difficulties.
The essential realities which the prophets labored so hard to establish in human hearts and minds while undergoing ordeals and suffering tortures of persecution, have now well nigh vanished.
Master Shallow retained his judicial appointment, with a caution to abstain from the trial of criminals by exploded Saxon ordeals for the future, which he carefully observed.
Already a few heroic souls have either quaffed the cup of martyrdom, or laid down their lives, or been subjected to divers ordeals while combating for its Cause.
We go through many ordeals which you are spared, but we outlast you in mind and body.
I was thankful to have passed through these two ordeals without ill consequences.
Ordeals were not actually abolished in France, notwithstanding the law of Louis above-mentioned, so late as the eleventh century (Bouquet, t.
Any one must have been very ignorant who attributed the invention ofordeals to the church.
The ordeals of hot iron or water were, however, more commonly used; and it has been a perplexing question by what dexterity these tremendous proofs were eluded.
These ordeals took place in the church with much sprinkling of holy water and other ceremony.
I should like to call out a higher moral force in myself--but I should never have the courage to undergo all the ordeals you say it would involve; I am too weak to try.
At the peaceful termination of allordeals and trials.
The ordeals used are the duel with runo stalks, or eggs, and the hot water test.
Without proof before man; but did he try the ordealsof God?
He draws them nigh unto Him through theseordeals and trials.
In this day the most vital and momentous matter is steadfastness in the love of the Manifestor of Light on the Mount of Sinai and endurance of ordeals and unaccountable calamities in this Cause.
But thou canst not realize in this present moment what great ordeals are in store and what unbearable calamities, affliction and adversity exist, and that to give up life is the easiest of all those calamities.
Thou also must endure dire oppression and ordeals in the Path of ABHA and maintain the feet of steadfastness and firmness.
The point is this: Afflictions and hardships, ordeals or trials, do not make me weak or faint, nor do they in the slightest degree make me sad or unhappy.
You must in some manner experience the ordeals common to other peoples, and you have seen from a distance what has overtaken many cities and nations, the inhabitants of which felt themselves as fixed as the rocks in the soil.
These ordeals and imprecations were sometimes effective in fixing guilt; the dread of incurring the wrath of the deity sometimes forced a guilty person to confess, or his dread of the punishment produced signs of guilt.
One of the most common of all ordeals is the duel.
A biblical ground for ordeals was found in Numbers v.
The ordeals which it has found employed by some of the nations it has converted, exactly suit its system.
Ordeals The Pardhis still preserve the primitive method of trial by ordeal.
If he were not able to dodge the show itself, at least he had gotten rid of the odious thing which held so much he detested and which was always an inseparable part of the ordeals he was taken to.
After a single experience, he had never been taken to one of those canine ordeals known as "three-or-more-day shows.
In that hamlet and its vicinity he was attacked, tormented, even stoned, and was subjected to such ordeals that finally, in a ruined caravanserai, he died.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ordeals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
