56 Metaphors for kingdoms

The burthen of the song, upon the present occasion, was literally translated by Dr. Price, and was as follows:"The golden glory shines forth like the round sun; the royal kingdom, the country and its affairs, are the most pleasant."

With Jesus the kingdom was a kind of watchword which was continually on His lips.

The northern kingdom, including the great tribe of Ephraim or Joseph, was the richest, most fertile, and most powerful; but the southern kingdom was the most strongly fortified.

At his death there were several claimants for the succession, and the kingdom in consequence became the theatre of civil war.

You believe, of course, that the kingdom and power and glory of all we see is God's.

CHAPTER 1 THE NEUTRALITY OF BELGIUM AND LUXEMBURG I The kingdom of Belgium is a comparatively new creation, but the idea of a Belgian nation is older than the kingdom.

As regards myself, I promise truly in this assembly of the Kurus, that if thou canst pass this time confounding my spies and undiscovered by them, then, O Bharata, this kingdom of the five rivers is once more thine.

" Grave is the Master's look; his forehead wears Thick rows of wrinkles, prints of worrying cares: Uneasy lie the heads of all that rule, His worst of all whose kingdom is a school.

KINGDOM, the, of Christ, which is heaven, is a kingdom of uses, 7. LABYRINTH, paradisiacal, 8.

On the 1st of March Napoleon landed, with two hundred men, to conquer the kingdom of France and Navarre; and on the 20th of the same month that kingdom became the French Empire.

I might go on and give you a thousand instances more, but they all come alike to this; that whensoever you fancy that you cannot earn your daily bread without doing wrong yourself, or leaving your children to learn wrong, then you do not believe that the kingdom, the power, and the glory of this earth on which you work is your Heavenly Father's.

The Romans had made use of these Attalids for the purpose of reconstructing in all essential points the kingdom of Lysimachusthe destruction of which had been the most important achievement of the Macedonian rulers after Alexanderand of placing alongside of Macedonia a state, which was its equal in point of power and was at the same time a client of Rome.

The Kingdom of Sardinia became the Kingdom of Northern Italy.

After glancing at the three, the King said: "Without doubt, at my death the kingdom will be Dummling's.

For a woman's kingdom is the home, my dear, and her throne is in the heart of her husband" "All this is but another way of saying your lordship would have us cups upon a shelf," she pointed out"in readiness for your leisure.

The father's kingdom is the son's mite.

The kingdom of heaven is not an ecclesiastical establishment; it includes the whole of life,business, politics, art, education, philanthropy, society in the narrow sense, the family: when all these shall be pervaded and controlled by the law of love, then the kingdom of heaven will have fully come.

Had I stood aside when in defiance of pledges to which my kingdom was a party, the soil of Belgium was violated and her cities made desolate, when the very life of the French nation was threatened with extinction, I should have sacrificed my honor and given to destruction the liberties of my empire and of mankind.

"Art thou one of His disciples?" "My kingdom is not of this world"Before the High Priest.

"The magisterial offices are no longer bestowed upon upright and just individuals and, as a consequence, this once flourishing and well-governed kingdom is day by day falling into decay, and is rapidly gliding down the path that leads to a terrible and, perhaps, speedy dissolution.

Lucifer becomes enamored of the tart quality (the centrum naturae or the matrix) and will not grow into the heart of God; and it is only after such lingering behind that the kingdom of wrath become a real hell.

Both the border kingdoms to the north, Palmyra and Hira, were Christian, and in the time of their prosperity had influenced Arabia in the direction of Christianity.

All are parts of God, but the human kingdom is the highest expression of the Creator.

"In families, where there is, or is not, poverty, there is commonly discord: if a kingdom be, as Imlac tells us, a great family, a family, likewise, is a little kingdom, torn with factions, and exposed to revolutions.

The kingdom is a growth, a movement working itself out in history, and therefore it may be said to be past, present, or future, according to our point of view.

56 Metaphors for  kingdoms