Gentiles Sentence Examples

The success which attended the work of the great apostle to the Gentiles stamped Christianity as a.

Indeed even Gentiles helped them, so that the whole world (Dio Cassius says) was stirred.

The writer already sees the Messianic kingdom established, under the sway of which the Gentiles will in due course be saved, Beliar overthrown, sin disappear from the earth, and the righteous dead rise to share fr1 the blessedness of the living.

We are still among the exiles at the close of the captivity, or, as others think, amidst a poor community in Jerusalem, whose members have now been dispersed among the Gentiles.

The promises of Old Testament prophets that the Gentiles would share in the blessing of the coming of Christ are also recalled, ii.

Meanwhile the new movement spread quite naturally beyond the confines of Palestine and found adherents among the Jews of the dispersion, and at an early day among the Gentiles as well.

For the Gentiles he had no message except as they might become members of the family of Israel, assuming the responsibilities and enjoying the privileges of proselytes.

Thus Jesus had the same significance for one man as for another, and Christianity was meant as much for Gentiles as for Jews.

He thus did away with the fundamental distinction between Jews and Gentiles.

Whether the Hebrew names of angels came to him direct from the Jews or not we cannot tell, but they were, as the Greek magical papyri prove, widely diffused among the Gentiles long before his age.

According to Ramsay, then, Peter was present during the famine, and made a private agreement with Paul that the latter should preach to the Gentiles, and so far Gentile Christianity was recognized, but the conditions of the intercourse between Gentile and Jewish Christians were not defined, and the question of circumcision was perhaps not finally settled.

Paul insists that he was appointed the apostle to the Gentiles, as Peter was to the Circumcision; and that circumcision and the observance of the Jewish law were of no importance to the Christian as such.

But in Acts it is Peter who first opens up the way for the Gentiles.

Throughout the whole of Acts Paul never stands forth as the unbending champion of the Gentiles.

In Galatians he claims perfect freedom in principle, for himself as for the Gentiles, from the obligatory observance of the law; and neither in it nor in Corinthians does he take any notice of a decision to which the apostles had come in their meeting at Jerusalem.

Peter's function in relation to the Gentiles belongs to the early Palestinian conditions, before Paul's distinctive mission had taken shape.

Now, however, emerges a new apostleship, that to the Gentiles; and with the change of mission goes also some change in the type of missionary or apostle.

Whereas the various nations of the Gentiles were subject to angels, Israel was subject to God alone.

In this kingdom the Gentiles had neither part nor lot.

He maintained the everlasting validity of the law, he held the strictest views on circumcision, the sabbath, and the duty of shunning all intercourse with the Gentiles; he believed in angels and in a blessed immortality.

If God determines to extend the promise of faith to the Gentiles, who shall accuse Him of injustice?

Mercy to the Gentiles and the punishment of "the sons of the kingdom" is foretold viii.

In fact, broadly speaking, the Sadducees for the period during which they are reported to exist, represent and embody the tendency to conformity with neighbouring Gentiles, which is deplored and denounced by Jewish writers from Moses to Philo.

On these grounds Peter complains that, when he was setting out for the Gentiles to convert them from their worship of many gods upon earth, the Evil Power (KaKla) had sent Simon before him to make them believe that there were many gods in heaven.

Had the author been consciously opposing the great apostle to the Gentiles he would probably have treated the subject less superficially.

He had already, before the opening of the Council, defined his personal attitude towards the dogmatic problem in two essays, Against the Gentiles and On the Incarnation, without, however, any special relation to the Arian controversy.

But the dislocation of religious thinking, when Christianity ceased to be a Jewish faith and found a home with Gentiles, destroyed the continuity of Paulinism and of Jewish thought working through St Paul.

The story foreshadows the end of the times of the Gentiles.

It was the truth, revealed to him as the chosen apostle to the Gentiles by the author of all truth God himself.

Thankful to be rid of him the leaders of the Jerusalem Church allowed him to go on his self appointed mission to convert gentiles.

James is stating unequivocally that it is wrong to admit gentiles into the church contrary to the law.

What was abolished were the ceremonial laws which excluded the gentiles from being the people of God.

I do not think that gentiles tend to do so either.

The conception Jesus had was that righteous gentiles would come to the Jerusalem of God's Kingdom in supplication.

He finished the Summa contra gentiles, wrote various disputed questions and began the Summa theologiae.

The ' malignant leprosy ' is the contamination by the outside world which results from education with the Gentiles.

Their whole purpose in life seems to have been to prepare for God's holy war against the gentiles and unrepentant sinners.

This work, Contra Gentiles, may be taken as an elaborate exposition of the method of Aquinas.

And it is further probable that some of the Gentiles, who afterwards became Christians, were either Jewish proselytes or adherents who paid reverence to the God of the Jews.

Yea, I will make you a light to the Gentiles that my salvation may be unto the end of the earth."

Those numbered 11-22, written in 344, are almost all directed against the Jews; the subjects are circumcision, passover, the sabbath, persuasion (the encyclical letter referred to above), distinction of meats, the substitution of the Gentiles for the Jews, that Christ is the Son of God, virginity and holiness, whether the Jews have been finally rejected or are yet to be restored, provision for the poor, persecution, death and the last times.

It is my intention, moreover, to recount the misfortunes which immediately came on the whole Jewish nation in consequence of their plots against our Saviour, and to record the ways and times in which the divine word has been attacked by the Gentiles, and to describe the character of those who at various periods have contended for it in the face of blood and tortures, as well as the confessions which have been made in our own day, and the gracious and kindly succour which our Saviour has accorded them all."

Jesus said you are not to be like the " rulers of the Gentiles " and " lord it over " people.

The passage explains how the stumbling of Israel has resulted in the salvation of the Gentiles.

Their whole purpose in life seems to have been to prepare for God 's holy war against the gentiles and unrepentant sinners.

Gentiles may confuse it with Hebrew, but in fact Yiddish is a blend of Hebrew and other languages that is rarely used anymore.

Some Gentiles might not realize that a difference exists between Yiddish and Hebrew.

The process by which the "gentiles" have been robbed of their legitimate history was the inevitable result of a religion whose sacred books make them lay figures for the history of the Jews.

The distinction between these two was made emphatic by Aquinas, who is at pains, especially in his treatise Contra Gentiles, to make it plain that each is a distinct fountain of knowledge, but that revelation is the more important of the two.

In the Summa Catholicae Fidei contra Gentiles he shows how a Christian theology is the sum and crown of all science.

Greek ' Bvri, tribes, races, the word used for the "Gentiles" in the New Testament.

With them were all the resources, and the only people they found at Jerusalem were hostile gentiles and Samaritans.

The writer of Acts ii., anxious to prove that Providence from the first included the Gentiles in the Messianic Kingdom, assumes that the gift of tongues was a miraculous faculty of talking strange languages without having previously learned them.

Certainly the asceticism and ritualism might so be interpreted, for there was among the Jews of the Dispersion an increasing tendency to asceticism, by way of protest against the excesses of the Gentiles.

When Felix was recalled by Nero in 60 the nation was divided against itself, the Gentiles within its gates were watching for their opportunity, and the chief priests robbed the lower priests with a high hand.