Angels and the spirits of the just, patriarchs and prophets surround thee to-day in thy departure to thy Son.
Then follow lights and incense and hymns, and angels singing as befits the solemnity; apostles and patriarchs acclaiming her in inspired song.
There is one God, one Law-giver of the old and new dispensation, who spoke of old in many ways to the patriarchs through the prophets, and in these latter times through His only begotten Son.
In this way God spoke of old to the patriarchs through the prophets, and lastly, through His only-begotten Son, on whose account He made the ages.
The Holy Ghost declared by the holy apostle St Paul that God spoke of old in many different ways to the patriarchs through the prophets.
This First Part relates Events in the Times of the Patriarchs and the Judges.
This First Part relates events in the Times of the Patriarchs and the Judges.
The twelvepatriarchs of the Jewish God, Jehovah, are not historical personages, but myths, and this is true of the twelve apostles of the Christian God, Jesus.
There has been but little disturbance of the earth's crust in this locality, and the streams, having run in their present course for ages, perhaps ever since our Father Adam and the patriarchs dwelt in the land, have worn their channels deep.
May the glorious band of the Patriarchs and Prophets curse him!
I beseech thee that with the patriarchs and prophets thou wouldst approach the throne of God and by your united prayers and merits obtain for me this my petition.
Unlucky patriarchs and fathers, that were born Philistines of Palestine, and not Dutchmen of Antwerp!
Some patriarchs wore awful turbans, but the grand mass of the infidel horde wore the fiery red skull-cap they call a fez.
I had rasher sail with a whole brigade of patriarchs than suffer so.
Is any man insane enough to imagine that this picnic of patriarchs sang, made love, danced, laughed, told anecdotes, dealt in ungodly levity?
He said, too, that the country called Sofala was really Ophir, and that the Patriarchs got their gold from about there.
It is thus evident that the duty of paying tithes was recognized by the patriarchsas a religious obligation.
Footnote 215: "All things that we find done by the patriarchs in the Old Testament ought to be free and not forbidden.
But he opposed persecution in the shape in which he knew it, and the patriarchs of European emancipation have not done more.
The patriarchs in the Bible made mistakes, but they got in the fold.
The patriarchs of old extended the patriot idea to the tribe and later as tribes banded together and formed nations.
In P, on the contrary, the patriarchs never offer sacrifice.
The two sources, J and E, both narrate the story of the patriarchs at some length.
The legends also attribute to God a partiality for the patriarchs which lets him protect and prosper them in transactions such as are repugnant not only to the most rudimentary morality but to savage manliness, as in Gen.
P tells of the patriarchs their deportment is unimpeachable.
However, the patriarchs of Constantinople never acquired the power and independence of the popes.
From the rood screen the sequence of the figures of the patriarchs and prophets leads up to the climax of "Our Lord in Glory.
To acclaim as one of the distinguishing titles of Jehovah that He was the God of the patriarchs whom they most revered, and yet hold that those worthies were dead in the Sadducean sense of death, was inconsistency itself.
The sacred writers implied no reflection upon the Patriarchsof whom they gave so short and conventional an account.
Ephraim and Benjamin may mean either patriarchs or tribes.
After giving the list of the twelve Patriarchs he devotes two and a half chapters to the families of Judah.
Kiblah,” to which every Mussulman has turned in prayer since the days of Muhammad, and which for long ages before the birth of Christianity was reverenced by the Patriarchs of the East.
These over-head paintings take us from the Creation of Man and his fall, through the old Testament up to the Annunciation and Nativity, in a series of scenes instructively thought out; while Patriarchs and Prophets lead on to the Evangelists.
Now, it is manifest that the condition of the patriarchs differed from that of Christ: for the patriarchs were subject to sin, whereas Christ was absolutely free from sin.
Therefore it seems that Christ's flesh was in Adam and the other patriarchsaccording to something signate.
Another motive was to show the emptiness of pride of birth: for many of Juda's brethren were born of hand-maidens, and yet all were patriarchs and heads of tribes.
But the balm to heal the wound was not there actually, but only by a certain virtue of origin, forasmuch as from those patriarchs the flesh of Christ was to be propagated.
For Christ's body is related to Adam and the other patriarchsthrough the medium of His Mother's body.
Consequently we must say that the entire flesh of the patriarchs was subjected to sin, nor was there anything in them that was free from sin, and from which afterwards Christ's body could be formed.
Whether the flesh of Christ was in the patriarchs as to something signate?
Whether the flesh of Christ in the patriarchs was subject to sin?
Whether Christ's Flesh in the Patriarchs Was Infected by Sin?
But the shepherds were single-minded, and were like the patriarchs and Moses in their mode of life.
Objection 1: It would seem that Christ's body was in Adam and the patriarchs as to something signate.
But God is the Head of Christ, as man, according to 1 Cor.
Therefore in Christ there was not the fulness of grace.
Whether Christ's Humanity Should Be Adored with the Adoration of Latria?
Thou hast ordered all things in number, weight and measure.
Now it is connatural to a human soul to receive species of a lesser universality than the angels receive; so that it knows different specific natures by different intelligible species.
First, inasmuch as Christ is the Head of all who pertain to the Church in every place and time and state; but all other men are called heads with reference to certain special places, as bishops of their Churches.
Now that is said to belong to anyone as man which belongs to him by reason of human nature.
But Christ had no evil desires whatever, as will be shown (Q.
Further, Christ is called Head of the Church from His bestowing grace on the Church's members.
But to be the Only-begotten of the Father is proper to Christ.
Objection 1: It would seem that the fulness of grace is not proper to Christ.
Now the proper measure of grace, like that of other forms, is determined by the Divine wisdom, according to Wis.
Any student who desires really to be able to judge of the social life of the Hebrew Patriarchs should visit the plains of Beersheba.
In the history of the Patriarchswe find described a mode of life just like that of the modern Arab.
The first communications to the patriarchs were always accompanied by some external, sensible appearance; they were often made through some preternatural personage in human form.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patriarchs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ancestors; antecedent; elder; forebears; patriarch; predecessor; progenitor
