The national soul in a theocratic State is a god; in an aristocratic age it assumes the character of a hero; and in a democracy it becomes a multitudinous being, definite in character if the democracy is a real social organism.
The way out of the theocratic State was by the drawn sword and was lit by the martyr's fires.
The condition of the colony served as a warning to its neighbors, seeming to confirm the wisdom of their theocratic methods.
The suppression of New Haven by the king, and the practical victory of the Quakers over the theocratic policy of Massachusetts, were staggering blows to the confederation.
They suppose an original Theocratic purpose to have been entertained by Jesus, in which the moral and religious principle predominated, but which was not at first exclusive of the political element.
He had only to separate from the Theocratic predictions of the prophets the partial political element, to bring them into unison with his universal aim.
The characteristic qualities of those who belonged to this kingdom were opposed to the Theocratic spirit.
I pass now to a more subtle hypothesis, that Jesus expected to establish the Theocratic empire by angelic assistance on occasion of his return to earth, which would occur at the same time with the great outward change of the world.
These are the principal reasons which determine me to believe that Jesus did not expect to return visibly to raise the dead, judge the world, and be the head of an external Theocratic kingdom on the renewed earth.
The first criticism to be made upon this hypothesis is, that a Theocratic idea arising out of the Jewish expectations and conformed to them could not dispense with all thought of earthly conflict.
The excessive vanity and theocratic pride of the Jews led them to exclude all the Gentiles, whom they stigmatized as "uncircumcised dogs," from the Jewish salvation.
The Hebrews believed themselves to be exclusively the chosen people of God, who directly ruled over them himself by a theocratic government represented in their patriarchs, law givers, prophets, and kings.
The sections aimed at a theocratic democracy; another party favoured the Duke of Mayenne; a third, the Duke of Guise; a fourth, the Infanta of Spain.
Hospitallers and the Teutonic Knights--and making of the united orders an invincible army to enforce on Europe the decrees of a benevolent and theocratic despotism.
This step at once gave a theocratic bias to the government, which determined all the acts of the monk's administration.
In Egypt and India, for example, the theocratic principle was dominant; in the Greek and Phoenician republics, the democratic principle.
The mild government of the Incas was at once patriarchal, theocratic and despotic.
The great outward event in the life of Samuel was the transition of the Israelites from a theocratic to a monarchical government.
We here see the blending of the theocraticwith the kingly rule.
This excessive theocratic concentration of power resulted in driving from the colony many of its best men.
Though differing from the system as developed in Massachusetts, the Newport government at the beginning had a decidedly theocratic character.
In the earlier part of the story, the Lord Himself appears as the solicitous Shepherd, and by plain implication His example is such as the theocratic leaders ought to emulate.
The law of the tithe had been a characteristic feature of the theocratic requirements in Israel from the days of Moses; and the practise really long antedated the exodus.
How could a theocratic kingdom prosper when the head of it raged against God's anointed one, and strained every nerve to destroy him?
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That man's personal act of refusing the broad and choosing the narrow way marks the birth of the theocratic Church of nationalism.
Sin would consist either in faults of ignorance and inadvertence or in national apostasy from the theocratic King.
But among the Jews this desire appeared, first in their national organization, as a theosophic and theocratic community, and afterward, when this broke down and the nation was divided, in a larger prophetic hope of the Messianic times.
We have seen in a former section that the institutions of Egypt, based on a theocratic monarchy, reach back into a dim and doubtful antiquity.
If its ecclesiastical powers had continued to be regarded as emanating from the Church itself, it would have lost all its hieratic andtheocratic character.
The theocratic reason was, 'the land shall not be sold at all for ever for it is Mine!
Their letters are too long to be reproduced in full; but their purport may be guessed by the extracts given, and to this day they remain choice gems of theocratic morality.
And starting from this point, with the help of Hutchinson and his own writings, it is still possible to discern the outlines of a policy well worthy of a theocratic statesman.
The Council of the next year, which excommunicated the emperor, also enunciated the famous propositions of Baronius--the full expression of the theocratic idea.
Viewed from the standpoint of comparative history, the policy of theocratic Massachusetts toward the Quakers was the necessary consequence of antecedent causes, and is exactly parallel with the massacre of the house of Ahab by Elisha and Jehu.
Yet only very slowly, as the empire disintegrated, did the theocratic idea take shape.
Presumably, therefore, he always regarded himself as still a member of the theocratic state of his fathers, and consequently acted up to his duty in this respect.
But how, if a Jew wishes to be no longer a member of this theocratic state, and goes over to the heathen religion, or to the philosophical, which is nothing more than pure natural religion?
But it is not only in such wonderful changes for good or happy deliverances from the power of evil that these remarkable divine moments or theocratic junctures announce themselves in the history of the world.
Not even in self-defense, or to escape from afflictions or bonds, did they once employ the theocratic powers committed to them.
They all lived in a thoroughly theocratic atmosphere.
She found all the strong walls and bastions, defences of the theocratic city, of which she was the appointed warden, being attacked by an insidious enemy within the gates.
Between theocratic architecture and this there is the difference that lies between a sacred language and a vulgar language, between hieroglyphics and art, between Solomon and Phidias.
It was the prognostication of the philosopher who sees human thought, volatilized by the press, evaporating from the theocratic recipient.
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