This was Jean de Brébeuf, descendant of a noble family of Normandy, and one of the ablest and most devoted zealotswhose names stand on the missionary rolls of his Order.
I think while zealots fast and frown, And fight for two or seven, That there are fifty roads to town, And rather more to Heaven.
For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered is best: For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
The orthodoxy of the Luther-zealots of the 16th century had its basis in the reformers’ retention of a series of old Catholic presuppositions and dogmas which were really in disagreement with their own fundamental ideas.
The Luther-zealots were thrown into hopeless confusion by the necessity in which they found themselves, of harmonizing the older Evangelical theory with the doctrine of penance whilst avoiding the pitfall of Melanchthon’s synergism.
But the king soon found, that the happiness chiefly of the allusion had tempted the preacher to employ this text, and that the covenanting zealots were nowise pacified towards him.
Certain zealots had erected themselves into a society for buying in of impropriations, and transferring them to the church; and great sums of money had been bequeathed to the society for these purposes.
The nobility and priesthood played into the hands of the Zealots by applying to Florus to put down the revolt.
If ever the zealots of the Mosaic law become Emperors, and govern the world as their own, they may choose, if they please, the law of Moses; but Christians at all times are bound to support the law which the civil authority imposes.
Since the Schmalkaldic allies had rejected the Emperor with his invitation to a Council, the Romish zealotsmight well hope that Charles at length would prepare to use force against them.
Other thousands there are of Zealots whose hands are ever near a blade.
A great following hath he of Galileans, Zealots and Judean warriors.
The Zealots took refuge in the Temple and summoned the Idumaeans to their aid.
His organization of local government and his efforts to maintain law and order brought him into collision with the Zealots and especially with John of Giscala, one of their leaders.
In the war with Rome he belonged to the peace party, and finding that the Zealots were resolved on carrying their revolt to its inevitable sequel, Johanan had himself conveyed out of Jerusalem in a coffin.
In Egypt and in Cyrene fugitiveZealots endeavoured to continue their rebellion against the emperor, but there also with disastrous results.
Judas and his zealots were thus able to maintain their prominence and gradually to increase their power.
So far as this influence extended, the Jewish community was threatened with the danger of suicide, and the distinction drawn by Josephus between the Pharisees and the Zealots is a valid one.
It seems that the Zealots made more headway in Galilee than in Judaea--so much so that the terms Galilean and Zealot are practically interchangeable.
Albinus fostered and turned to his profit the struggles of priests with priests and of Zealots with their enemies.
The famine was perhaps interpreted by the Zealots as a punishment for their acquiescence in the rule of an apostate.
Some of the Zealotsescaped with John and Simon to the upper city and held it for another month.
The Sicarii or Zealots who had appealed to the arm of flesh were exterminated.
Here and there hot-headed Zealots rose up to repeat the errors and the disasters of their predecessors.
Some too would be sure to remain of the leaders and zealots of the majority.
A numerous party among his troops, including the same zealots who had forced arbitration upon him, now cast him off because he had accepted it, fell out from the ranks, and raised the standard of revolt.
The zealots were confirmed in their faith, the waverers convinced, the disaffected overawed.
Rebellion of the fugitiveZealots in Egypt and Cyrene.
In general, he considered the opposition between the schools of Hillel and Shammai not merely theoretic but also political, and he identified the rabid Zealots with extreme Shammaites.
They hoped for a kingdom as tangible as the Zealots sought, yet they preferred to wait for the consolation of Israel.
Josephus indicates that it was Herod's fear lest John should lead these Zealots to revolt that furnished the ostensible cause of his death.
The Zealots were looking for a victory, which should set Israel on high over all his foes.
The Devout were midway between the Zealots and the Apocalyptists.
The zealots thenceforth ruled, and all the bonds of civil, religious, and moral order were dissolved.
The moderate patriots were soon overpowered by thezealots with the help of the levy of the rude and fanatical inhabitants of the Idumaean villages (end of 68), and their leaders were slain.
However this may be, all hope of compromise is dashed by the zealots who are in power at Paris.
The constables were resisted, the magistrates insulted, the houses of noted zealots attacked, and the prescribed service of the day openly read in the churches.
Abraham Holmes, a retired officer of the parliamentary army, and one of those zealots who would own no king but King Jesus, had been taken at Sedgemoor.
These zealots were most numerous among the rustics of the western lowlands, who were vulgarly called Whigs.
To reasons such as guide the conduct of statesmen and generals the minds of these zealots were absolutely impervious.
Thus the appellation of Whig was fastened on the Presbyterian zealots of Scotland, and was transferred to those English politicians who showed a disposition to oppose the court, and to treat Protestant Nonconformists with indulgence.
The jurymen, selected by the Sheriffs from among the fiercest zealots of the Tory party, conferred for a moment, and returned a verdict of Guilty.
New to us also is the story of the petition presented to the United States Congress "by some zealotswho entertained strong religious objections against the use of oil.
I frequently wonder whether anyone of these misguided zealotshas ever been inside the popular theatre, the theatre of the Musical Comedy.
All these hasty inexperienced zealots labored that winter under the delusion that one great battle might end the war.
If at any time Lincoln was tempted to forget Seward's worldly wisdom, it was when these influential zealots demanded of him to do the very thing he intended to do.
But the frontier zealotsof the 'forties were not of the Wesley type.
The hole by which they made entrance to the hollow trunk, however, was left uppermost after the fall, and apparently the little zealots had not been seriously disturbed.
Then the dance would grow fiercer, and the chanting would break out anew, while always the cherry stones rattled dismally and urged the zealots on.
To neither of them, in my opinion, unless we have a mind to enlist ourselves and become zealots in either party.
There are enow of zealots on both sides, who kindle up the passions of their partisans, and, under pretence of public good, pursue the interests and ends of their particular faction.
The customs-officers, also, were abhorred by the zealots of the law.
Continual seditions, excited by the zealots of Mosaism, did not cease, in fact, to agitate Jerusalem during all this time.
The facts that to impartial minds are evidential of the poet's untruthfulness, the most extravagant of the Shelleyan zealots regard as so much evidence that their idol possessed an inordinately powerful imagination.
Walking as near to the little battlement as the length of her chain would allow, she looked down into the Court of Israel, where many of the Zealots had gathered to catch sight of her.
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