Others, falling into convulsions, pretended to have revelations from the Holy Ghost.
The revelations of the Spirit were in his eyes the means by which his reform was to be effected.
But before he could communicate them, it was necessary to set before it the revelations of God.
The reader has, I trust, found in the preceding pages sufficient evidence that the Bible has nothing to dread from the revelations of geology, but much to hope in the way of elucidation of its meaning and confirmation of its truth.
Farther, we shall have reason in the sequel to see that in far back prehistoric times there must have been impulses given to mankind, and revelations made to them, as potent as those which have acted in later historic periods.
God has given to the Aryans no special revelations of his will, and they would have been left to grope for themselves along the paths of science and philosophy, but for the advent among them of the prophets of "Jehovah the God of Shem.
Their connection with the ancient Semitic and Turanian revelations of Asia is unquestionable.
Had geology made such revelations as these, the consequences in relation to natural theology and the credibility of Scripture would have been momentous.
Consequently the earlier revelations of the antediluvian and postdiluvian times must have been the common property of all races, and must have been associated with whatever elements of natural religion they had.
Meg, in some dismay, found herself let in for even greater revelations than she had intended.
He spoke gently; but there was always an intensity about the preacher that made Meg, whose more complex nature was swayed by many different emotions, feel rather as if she were being coerced into self-revelations against her will.
It was not long before astonishing revelations began to circulate through the cloisters.
Who but He who was responsible for those omissions could interpret them into some of the richest revelations of all Scripture concerning the eternal Priesthood of the slain and risen Son of God?
In a word, the revelations of the Christians and Jews seem to have been imagined only to render uncertain and to annihilate the qualities attributed to the Deity, and which are declared to constitute his essence.
It is, nevertheless, upon partial revelationsthat are founded all the religions of the world.
His existence cannot be demonstrated in revelations, which we discover, on examination, to be the work of imposture; revelations sap the foundations laid down for belief in a Divinity, which they would wish to establish.
That he has not done this, argues that all "revealed religions" are but the voices of the godlike within man, rather than direct revelations from without.
Muslims say that miracles have followed the revelations given to other prophets in order to confirm the divine message.
Most Musalmáns maintain that the latter kind of corruption has taken place, and so they do not feel bound to read or study the previous revelations so frequently referred to in the Qurán.
When they return from the angelic state they deliver to men the revelations they have received.
It is said that God chose the sacred month of Ramazán in which to give all the revelations which in the form of books have been vouchsafed to mankind.
Other divine books, it is admitted, were revelations received under the form of ideas, but the Qurán is far superior to them all for the actual text was revealed to the ear of the prophet.
The Hanifites, however, as well as other Muslims, acknowledge the six standard collections of Traditions as direct revelations of the will of {70} God.
The Companions of the Prophet had special knowledge of the various circumstances under which special revelations had been made; they alone knew which verses of the Qurán abrogated others, and which verses were thus abrogated.
The child philosopher and materialist often becomes the visionary of riper years, running into illuminism, magnetism, and transcendentalism, with its inspired priests and priestesses, its revelations and oracular responses.
There is one grand and beautiful idea underlying all his revelations or speculations about the future life.
Peter winced with a consciousness of the half-truth of her reproaches, but the curiosity and excitement awakened by the revelations of her frenzy were greater than his remorse.
All these, however, with their occasional revelations of the menage behind them, were also familiar to her, but now she began to wonder which was his.
Asanga was the founder of the later and more scholastic system called Yogâcâra and is also associated with a series of revelations said to have been made by Maitreya.
Yet this idea has deep roots in the heart of Bengal and with it another idea: the terrors of death, plague and storm are half but only half revelations of the goddess-mother who can be smiling and tender as well.
Asanga was alleged to have received revelations from Maitreya and five of his works are attributed to this Bodhisattva who enjoyed considerable honour at this period.
In the south two Tamil hymnals, the Devaram of the Śivaites and Nâlâyira Prabandham of the Vishnuites, are recited in temples and are boldly stated to be revelations equivalent to the Veda.
His images are frequent in all parts of the Buddhist world: he was believed to watch over the propagation of the Faith,[57] and to have made special revelations to Asaṅga.
Many of the gentiles receivedrevelations of Christ, as is clear from their predictions.
Now divine revelations are made even to the blessed angels.
Accordingly prophecy, properly and simply, is conveyed by Divine revelations alone; yet the revelation which is made by the demons may be called prophecy in a restricted sense.
Wherefore the Divine enlightenments andrevelations are conveyed from God to men by the angels.
Again in the state of the Law the first revelation which was given to Moses was more excellent, and on this revelation all the other revelations to the prophets were founded.
Now, all that was best in her, all her loyalty to the traditions of her family, rose in revolt against a popular favour which applauded the rhymes of a ruined boy and admired the shameless revelations of debauchery.
As for understanding first causes, the human race never had and never could; and as for a belief in heavenly revelations or in divine influences, all such tendencies ended in philosophic absurdity.
If we will doubt or overlook the difference between man and brutes, the difficulty of ascribing to man peculiar privileges, is made as great by the revelations of geology, as of astronomy.
But this is only the first step in the asserted revelations of astronomy.
It contained further revelations concerning the King's ship (they would call it the Black Ship no more), and the land to which it bore those for whom it was sent.
And for those who, in that moment, on this side, for the first time met the eyes that had been watching them so long across the sea, who can utter what the revelationsof that moment were!
On the eve of its appearance, rumors of its extraordinary revelations got about, and persons of influence applied to the Admiralty for copies.
There was a controversy about the revelations made in this work; but as the eccentric anomalies took no part in it, there is nothing for my purpose.
The seer," he said, "was one in whom memory predominated, and many of his visions were recollections rather of a former than revelations of a future state.
And when the depths of his thinking have been fathomed by modern observers it will be soon enough to speak of new revelations and arcana.
The 28th chapter of Deuteronomy contains the revelations of blessings and curses promised the Jews, and, we may add, all mankind, for obedience to the laws of God, and for disobedience to the same.
His first efforts were directed against the Jews, who refused to receive Mohammed’s effusions as the revelations of heaven, and, in consequence, suffered the loss of their possessions and lives.
If we believe the Bible to be a true book, then we must believe that God did make theserevelations to Moses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "revelations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
