The event to which “Malachi” appeals as evidence for God’s rejection of Edom is the desolation of the latter’s ancient heritage, and the abandonment of it to the jackals of the desert.
Temple and its deliverance during the invasion of Alexander, and from the victories of the Maccabees, to the rejection of the true shepherd and the curse upon the false; and chaps.
Then, to show the people that by their rejection of the good shepherd they must fall a prey to an evil one, the prophet assumed the character of the latter.
And must we not deeply lament, that to this hour similar reasons operate to produce a similar infidelity or rejection of the well-substantiated claims of the Son of God upon the affections and obedience of mankind?
I think the vote in the Senate, taken at any time, would be very close on the rejection of the vote of Louisiana.
My own impression is that you will become President by the rejection of the vote of Louisiana.
A rejection of the doctrine of Christ, so common in our day, defiles this spiritual temple of God.
It brings together all the prophets had spoken concerning Israel as the vineyard, as well as the crowning sin of the people, in the rejection and death of the Lord Jesus, and the judgment which came upon Jerusalem and the nation.
God, during this age, our present age, which began with the rejection of Christ by Israel and ends with His Return, is gathering a heavenly people, the church.
And judgment greater than Jerusalem's will surely overtake this present evil age with its idolatries, its abominations, its rejection of God's Gospel and defiance of God.
It is chiefly to the odium theologicum that Mr. Mill may attribute his rejection at Westminster; and it is supposed to have also damaged Sir John Lubbock in West Kent.
He urged that on questions of theology there ought to be no penalties consequent upon the reception or rejection of any particular religious opinion.
Paine was not a deep examiner of metaphysical problems, but he was terribly in earnest in his rejection of an impossible creed.
Heresy is in itself neither Atheism nor Theism, neither the rejection of the Church of Rome, nor of Canterbury, nor of Constantinople; heresy is not necessarily of any ist or ism.
To go beyond in one's rejection the anarchism of the social communist into what is called individualistic anarchism is mere egotistic madness and has as its only value the possible poetry of a unified personal expression.
There, in those three little slum rooms, gathered a strange society--a society held together on the basis of its utter rejection of the larger society of men.
True originality is to be found rather in the use made of a model than in the rejection of all models and masters.
And yet, when all is said, what wonderful prose it is, with its subtle preferences, its fastidious purity, its rejection of what is common or ordinary!
For in his very rejectionof art Walt Whitman is an artist.
The only thing needed to cause a rejection of this pious fiction is a knowledge of the fact that Franklin had been dead nearly four years when the first page of Paine's book was written.
In Springfield, where he lived, Lincoln's rejection of Christianity was known to every person and while he was very popular and greatly beloved by all who were not dominated by their religious prejudices, the bigots always opposed him.
Paine's mere rejection of Christianity does not account for it.
Some were even anxious to read to him the verses which they had composed in celebration of their rejection by Miss L-nl-y; and this showed him how well he had kept his secret.
Mill's philosophy finds but little favour in many quarters of political activity to-day, and the rejection of his philosophy has induced many to regard his views on representative government as of little value.
The justice of the argument must be admitted, and explains why the rejection of the Plural Voting Bill by the House of Lords aroused comparatively little public feeling.
In the rejection of the proposal to admit the Latins to the franchise it had been demonstrated with decisive clearness that the multitude in fact never voted for Gracchus, but always simply for itself.
The evening of the day on which the Count of Morcerf had left Danglars' house with feelings of shame and anger at the rejection of the projected alliance, M.
When the rejection was widely known, it was known almost equally well and soon that Van Buren would be the Jacksonian candidate for vice-president.
Congress was in session, debating the tariff bill; and he quickly enough found it true, as he had already believed, that his rejection had been a capital blunder of his enemies.
Clay and Webster based their rejection upon his language in the dispatch to McLane, already quoted.
He would escape the many embarrassments of every politician upon whom demands are continually made,--demands whose rejection or allowance alike brings offense.
The Rejection of Joachim, which fills the whole arch at the top, and is rather peculiarly treated.
This article was inserted by unanimous request of the Cherokee committee after the signing of the treaty, it being understood that itsrejection by the Senate of the United States should not impair any other article of the treaty.
Could it be possible that under the sting of rejection he had made his grotesque threat of languishing effacement real?
It was scarcely an encouragement to gallantry, neither was it a rejection of an unconscious familiarity.
The rejection or surrender of religious truth is frequently accompanied by the acceptance of irrational beliefs.
But it cannot accept or reject what has never been presented to it; nor, until the Christian faith has to some extent been accepted, can the rejection of the remainder of it be accounted heresy.
And it is along just this line that, independently of exegetical grounds, it seems to me, we are led to a decisive rejection of the doctrine of annihilation.
The Canadian delegates left England without an acceptance of the terms proposed by Mr. Gladstone, and without a formalrejection of them.
One of the chief causes of complaint against the council was their rejection of every bill for the amendment of the charter of King's College.
Newfoundland, angry at the rejection of the proposed treaty, put every obstacle possible in the way of American fishermen and used methods which the Americans claimed to be contrary to the treaty terms.
Rejection of the argument on account of the phrase is superficial and unjust.
And the mere rejection of it is no sign, as some seem to fancy, of intellectual freedom, of an independent judgment.
The fact that the fore-milk contains per cubic centimeter so much more germ life than the remainder of the milk has led some to advocate its rejection when a sanitary milk supply is under consideration.
It is true that the fore-milk is relatively deficient in fat so that the loss of butter fat occasioned by the rejection of the first few streams is comparatively slight.
