The idea of a theocracy was the basis of Calvin's system of legislation, as it was that of Leo I.
Another application still of this vision of the flying roll may be made in connection with the established theocracy during the coming age.
It seems to us very clear that the vision represents the Jewish theocracy restored, Israel in their glorious inheritance as the light of the world.
The true form of government for the earth has been restored, a Theocracy through His chosen and restored people, the seed of Abraham.
In them, as we have seen, the whole future of Israel, their restoration to the land and regeneration, as well as the theocracy and the judgments connected with it, were revealed.
Here they are the two witnesses who give their testimony during the great tribulation in Jerusalem, and who stand in direct relation to that theocracy which is then about to be established in Israel.
The first visions the prophet had were visions of comfort for Jerusalem and the dispersed nation, the overthrow of Babylon and all their enemies, divine forgiveness and the theocracy restored.
Their theology is strongly millenarian, centering in the hope of a world-wide theocracy with its seat at Jerusalem.
We have traced it in the middle ages burning the rich man's châteaux and experimenting in theocracy and communism.
We well know that the theocracy of the Jews was the only true one, and that those of other nations were false; but in all other respects, the case was precisely the same with them as with the Jews.
Even in the time of this same Saul, theocracy participates in power with royalty.
The character of the English Reformation after the first tumultuous conflicts, the fierce essays of royal theocracy and Jesuit reactionism, set steadily towards Liberty of Conscience.
The period of imperial theocracy showed Rome in her pomp and splendour, covering inner hollowness and gradual decay with marble slabs.
The Caesarian theocracy required these abodes of splendour and self-glorification.
The Romans had to reverence and submit to theocracy under the form of a triple authority--the political authority; the paternal authority; and the legal authority.
The Despotism of Christian powers causes Italian peoples to desire the yoke of the Turks--The Papal theocracy renews with the empire the compact of Charlemagne.
The Despotism of Christian powers causes Italian powers to desire the yoke of the Turks--The Papal theocracy renews with the empire the compact of Charlemagne.
The essence of a theocracy is freedom from secular control, and this craving for freedom was the dominant instinct of monasticism.
By David’s successes the theocracy attained unto a high degree of political significance, and by Solomon’s building of the temple the typical form of worship reached the highest point of its development.
The history of the preparation for Christianity in the history of the Israelitish theocracy moves along the lines of Oriental culture.
There is one kind of government that will secure permanent prosperity and happiness, and that is theocracy or the government of God through his prophet, seer and revelator.
But the consideration of the character of the age forbids us to condemn the conscientious men who put Williams out of the Massachusetts theocracy as they would have driven the devil out of the garden of Eden.
They wanted less of theocracy and more of aristocracy.
With his death the military theocracy and the palmy days of the Patriarchal Caliphate draw to a close.
To them we are indebted for the Messianic idea, the hope of a better time in which their high ideal of the theocracy should be realized.
He was the leader in restoring the theocracy after the exile, “a ready scribe in the law of Moses, who had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.
The Jewish theocracy is the centre of history; Israel the elect people; and all wisdom is embodied in the law.
Had Israel only been loyal, had it even been a point of conscience and a point of honour with them to obey God's voice, had they even had a holy recoil from every act offensive to Him, the theocracy would have worked most beautifully.
Other things began to press upon them, other cravings began to be felt, that the theocracydid not meet.
Theocracy is a divine fact in a larger sense than has ever been attached to the word.
It is a vision of theTheocracy taking shape from a keen and original mind.
The Hebrew people under the theocracy may represent the one ideal; Gideon's sifting of his army points to the other; neither, it must be frankly confessed, has ever been realized.
Jesus came to call it out of the theocracy to Himself.
In the midst of the blinded theocracy of Israel in the days of Jesus there was a faithful, though small, remnant.
The Messianic Theocracy is transformed into a Church Theocracy.
The transformation of Christianity into a sacerdotal theocracy was achieved.
But theocracywith these nations was not synonymous with the domination of priests.
This is quite in accordance with the sacerdotal spirit of the times, when the theocracy was emerging into power to take the place left vacant by the decay of the house of David.
It was the more remarkable because the newtheocracy was just now coming into power.
There is no government but theocracy (priestly rule), and every constitution comes from God.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "theocracy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
