Zealots Sentence Examples

Judas and his zealots were thus able to maintain their prominence and gradually to increase their power.

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.

Some of the Zealots escaped with John and Simon to the upper city and held it for another month.

My friends never had occasion to vindicate any one circumstance of my character and conduct; not but that the zealots, we may well suppose, would have been glad to invent and propagate any story to my disadvantage, but they could never find any which they thought would wear the face of probability.

The result of this alliance between a revolutionary and a Pharisee was the formation of the party of Zealots, whose influence - according to Josephus - brought about the great revolt and so led to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70.

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 headwa y in Galilee than in Judaea - so much so that the terms Galilean and Zealot are practically interchangeable.

The famine was perhaps interpreted by the Zealots as a punishment for their acquiescence in the rule of an apostate.

Albinus fostered and turned to his profit the struggles of priests with priests and of Zealots with their enemies.

The Zealots' zeal for the Law and the Temple was flouted by their pro-Roman king.

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.

Trusting in Hildebrand's support, and in the justice of his own cause, he presented himself at the synod of Rome in 1059, but found himself surrounded by zealots, who forced him by the fear of death to signify his acceptance of the doctrine " that the bread and wine, after consecration, are not merely a sacrament, but the true body and the true blood of Christ, and that this body is touched and broken by the hands of the priests, and ground by the teeth of the faithful, not merely in a sacramental but in a real manner."

Representatives of the Zealots would probably have protested against his pro-Roman prejudices.

The confessors of the Gallican Church at Lyons were of opinion that communion ought to be maintained with the zealots of Asia and Phrygia; and they addressed a letter to this effect to the Roman bishop, Eleutherus.

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.

Shortly after Froben's death the disturbances at Basel, occasioned by the zealots for the religious revolution which was in progress throughout Switzerland, began to make Erasmus desirous of changing his residence.

To put down the Zealots he favoured an even more violent sect, the Sicarii ("Dagger-men"), by whose aid he contrived the murder of the high-priest Jonathan.

He supported Peel in his Corn-Law legislation, and throughout all this later period of his life, whether in office or in opposition, gained the admiration of discerning men, and excited the wonder of zealots, by his habitual subordination of party spirit and party connexion to whatever appeared to him the real interest of the nation.

Many zealots objected to the introduction of these innovations in the sacred text, but theological consistency had to yield to practical necessity.

But in yielding to the will of the majority he excited the displeasure of the minority, the genuine zealots, who in Moawiya were opposing the enemy of Islam, and regarded Ali's entering into negotiations with him as a denial of the faith.

Lighted candles certainly continued to decorate the holy table in Queen Elizabeth's chapel, to the scandal of Protestant zealots.

Into the balance must be thrown the hundreds, if not thousands, of zealots who had fled abroad and returned in 1558-1559.

This is where the zealots push forward their pet solution - usually something open-source like Linux, or completely noddy like Mac.

When the crusading zealots have pushed through the measures Iâve mentioned above are they going to rest on their laurels.

When ordinary parish life is disrupted by agenda wielding zealots - what future the Gospel for this country?

Far too much damage has been done by zealots fighting in a worldly way while claiming to be doing God's work.

The Soil Association would be Britain's prime example - populated by sincere zealots and right-minded people.

In some cases, like John Brown, religious zealots paved the way for the end to slavery.

There can be no guarantees against attacks from religious or political zealots.

Saddam underestimated the Iranian resistance, typified by young zealots pouring across mine fields to attack Iraqi troops who had occupied their land.

Fighting helmet zealots with reason is not only challenging, arguably it's no longer an option.

How will all those rabid foaming at the mouth right wing zealots suddenly be able to be pro Euro tho?

The anti-tobacco zealots in the UK have been stoking up the hysteria ready for the big push on smoking in public places.

Every week some new law targetted at drivers is dreamed up by the anti-car zealots in government and the civil service.

The famine affected all alike - the populace, who desired peace, and the Zealots, who were determined to fight to the end.

He continued for about sixteen years to disseminate his views by writing and teaching, without being directly interfered with by either his civil or ecclesiastical superiors, greatly to the scandal of the multitude and of the zealots, in whose eyes Berengar was 4 ` ille apostolus Satanae," and the academy of Tours the " Babylon nostri temporis."

There may first be mentioned the zealots such as the Akalis, who, though generally quite illiterate, aim at observing the injunctions of Sikhism Guru Govind Singh; secondly, the true Sikhs or Singhs who observe his ordinances, such as the prohibi tions of cutting the hair and the use of tobacco; and, thirdly, those Sikhs who while professing devotion to the tenets of the gurus are almost indistinguishable from ordinary Hindus.

Far too much damage has been done by zealots fighting in a worldly way while claiming to be doing God 's work.

Confronted by health zealots out to ban tobacco, Nick goes on a PR offensive, spinning away the dangers of cigarettes.

The Soil Association would be Britain 's prime example - populated by sincere zealots and right-minded people.

It is the American Jewish zealots who make this wet dream into reality.

It is not lost on them that Bush and Blair are both ' happy clappy ' born again christian zealots.

Fighting helmet zealots with reason is not only challenging, arguably it 's no longer an option.

In due course, religious zealots of the Reformation caused further damage to Glastonbury.

The worship of Baal of Tyre roused a small circle of zealots, and again the Phoenician marriage was the cause of the evil.

In accordance with ancient custom Jerusalem welcomed the fugitive Zealots.

The Zealots took refuge in the Temple and summoned the Idumaeans to their aid.

In Egypt and in Cyrene fugitive Zealots endeavoured to continue their rebellion against the emperor, but there also with disastrous results.