It was the plurality of deities, as much as anything, which made heathenism morally worthless.
At Thessalonica there was not a single president, a minister in our sense, possessing to a certain extent an exclusive responsibility; the presidency was in the hands of a plurality of men, what Presbyterians would call a Kirk Session.
Let us be quite clear that the relationship of unity to plurality in the case of the five apples is totally different from what it is in the fivefold pericarp.
Plurality arises from a continuous process of division of unity.
I hope that Brigham’s declining years will prompt him to receive a new “revelation,” commanding a discontinuance of the wife plurality feature of the Mormon religion.
Where the amount of female labour is limited and no accumulated property exists, it may be very difficult for a man to keep a plurality of wives.
The legend relates that the four brothers lived in a state of Polyandry, or plurality of husbands, and had but one wife in common, who was a species of Amazon.
Although in the maritime provinces plurality of husbands has been signally on the decrease, owing to foreign influences, it still prevails to a great extent in the interior of the island.
The Mahommedan religion, planned carefully for Eastern habits, allowed a plurality of wives, and prospered.
The absence of real love engendered by a plurality of wives, is an absolute bar to progress; and so long as polygamy exists, an extension of civilization is impossible.
It is proposed, therefore, to show, from the nature of the Divine Being, that his Essence MUST subsist in a plurality of persons.
How much more reasonable is it to conceive the Divine Essence to subsist in a plurality of persons, and thus to conceive, consistently, of the eternal, immense, and immutable activity and happiness of the Divine Being?
The ancient Jews understood Elohim as conveying the idea of a plurality in the Godhead.
We cannot say there is a plurality of Essences; but we can say, the Living, Rational, Benevolent, and Spiritual Essence subsists in three persons.
It is believed by many very learned, pious, and eminent men, that the doctrine of a plurality of persons in the Godhead, can be established by an argumentation founded solely on the acknowledged nature of the Divine Being.
It must be carefully observed, that the plurality has regard to the persons, not to the Essence.
But so soon as we admit the idea of a plural personality, or the subsistence of the Divine Essence in a plurality of persons, we can conceive the moral perfections exercised in Himself, between the persons of the Godhead.
While Professor Newcomb's attitude on the question of the plurality of worlds has been somewhat conservative in the past he has lately, however, expressed himself on the question in no uncertain terms.
A plurality is far better: It combines the mass of a nation better together: And besides this, it is necessary to the manly mind of a republic that it loses the debasing idea of obeying an individual.
Establishing, then, plurality as a principle, the only question is, What shall be the number of that plurality?
Species and Law include no mere plurality of objects and instances, for as often as the instance comes to pass the law is fulfilled, and the number belonging to a species is, in conception, limitless.
It may say that a plurality shall elect if it pleases.
The consequences which are possible," argued the protestants, "from admitting the right to elect by a plurality vote, furnish a conclusive argument against it.
The validity or invalidity of the election hinged upon the ability of the joint convention of the two branches to declare a plurality sufficient to elect.
On the 15th of March the convention rescinded this stringent rule and declared that "any candidate receiving a plurality of votes of the members present shall be declared duly elected.
The resolution giving to a plurality the power to elect was carried in the joint convention by a majority of one--forty-one to forty.
Forty-one votes were thus cast against Mr. Stockton, but as he had secured a plurality he was duly elected according to the rule adopted by the joint convention.
In most of the states, persons are elected by a plurality of votes.
To make plural by using the plural termination; to attribute plurality to; to express in the plural form.
One who believes in, or maintains the doctrine of, a plurality of gods.
Plurality of sounds and articulations expressed by the same vocal sign.
The doctrine of, or belief in, a plurality of gods.
When the ancient doctrine of the plurality of worlds was restored by Bruno, Galileo, and other modern astronomers, the resistance it encountered was mainly owing to its anticipated bearing on the nature and relations of man.
The minister arguing in favor of the plurality of denominations from the plural term churches as found in the Bible is either ignorant or unfair.
We know that a plurality of wives, or the repudiation of them, was familiar to the Hebrews and other nations, and that it is tolerated even now amongst the Mahometans and Chinese.
Repudiation is much more common than a plurality of wives.
