He did not, however, draw the natural conclusion that they represented three languages, but supposed that the proud builders of Persepolis had written their inscriptions in threefold form.
It was here that he first uttered the words of threefold prophecy that were soon to echo through the world.
The catholic preserves in the background of his thought the distinction between the ousía and the threefold hypóstasis, between the essential godhead and the three persons.
It is one type of thethreefold process roughly described at the close of Chapter I.
For the distinction between octave and sestet has disappeared, there is a threefold division of the first twelve lines, and the final couplet gives an epigrammatic summary or "point" which Petrarch took pains to avoid.
As to the organization of the society, it is now perfectly clear that there was a threefold division of offices: bishops, presbyters, and deacons.
The same idea may be said to have entered it already in a more implicit form in the statement of the threefold harmony in ontogeny.
The issues of Treasury notes were increased until, in December, 1863, the currency in circulation amounted to more than six hundred million dollars, or more than threefold the amount required by the business of the country.
And consequently a threefold proclamation was made, of all and singular opposers, at the door of the parochial church aforesaid; and so as is customary in these cases.
There were no leading articles for several years, yet in the very first year the Times displays threefold as many advertisements as its contemporaries.
Here are the allies, the threefold armies of Despotism on the one side, and of Democracy on the other.
If it passes this threefold ordeal, it becomes a statute of the land.
Render the maid to the God, and expect from the sons of Achaia Threefold recompense back, yea fourfold, soon as Kronion Grants us to waste and abolish the well-wall'd city of Troia.
That subject is: The threefold discipline of our spiritual experience, as compared with thethreefold order in the expanding nurture of the human family.
The progressive formation of the earth takes a threefold course, since it begins in a threefold and yet single manner in granite.
Being, generally, is an act, and that, indeed, of a threefold nature.
God is a threefold Trinity; at first the Eternal, then the Ætherial, and finally the Terrestrial, where it is completely divided.
The flower-vesicle is according to its essence a threefold vesicle.
The granite appears under a threefold form as quartz, feldspar, and mica-granite.
From their being addicted to evil ways, they are guilty of a threefold sin.
The picture tells no story; deals with no incident or condition of the human life of Christ, but presents the ideal figure in the threefold aspect of prophet, priest, and king.
London had a threefold share of incendiaries; indeed, the letters inserted in the newspapers, received by various persons, are disgraceful even to the most abandoned character.
If any effect was observable from the presentment, it was that of threefold eccentricity and impropriety of subjects for his Orations.
The apostle dwells upon the personal glory of Immanuel, contemplating him in his threefold office of prophet, priest and king.
The author, speaking of the delay in bringing it before the public, states that Horace's nonumque prematur in annum could be applied in threefold measure to this work (p.
On this excellent family I look back with threefold affection, on account of their goodness to Coleridge, and because they were then unfortunate, and because their union has long since been dissolved by death.
This threefold statement has great theological interest which we will consider shortly.
But it seems to the present writer most probable that everywhere the threefold ministry came into existence by (1) a change of arrangement, and (2) a change of name.
With this earliest state of things in our mind, we shall perceive that where an apostle or apostolic man was permanently resident in one particular church, a threefold ministry, like that of later church history already existed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "threefold" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
