39 examples of apocalyptic in sentences

Cain is apocalyptic; it is a revelation not before communicated to man."

And the common people are willingly taught by the canonists and feed their hope of better days upon the innumerable legends of the olden time and the equally innumerable apocalyptic prophecies about the future.

The apocalyptic vision granted her Of Love immortal, vital and supreme, Kept by the grace of God all undefiled, Had dowered her with largess; what she gave, Albeit not the utmost, was more worth Than best had been from her starved soul before.

Of Blake's longer poems, his titanic prophecies and apocalyptic splendors, it is impossible to write justly in such a brief work as this.

Adj. scriptural, biblical, sacred, prophetic; evangelical, evangelistic; apostolic, apostolical^; inspired, theopneustic^, theophneusted^, apocalyptic, ecclesiastical, canonical, textuary^. 986.

Unable, or unwilling, to understand the apocalyptic moment as anything but the wrath of God, they blamed the feminists, homosexuals and civil libertarians of New York City for having brought this terrible but heavenly decree on themselves.

Again, I protest against all identification of the coming with the Apocalyptic Millennium, which in my belief began under Constantine. II.

A divine spectacle ensued of holy mystery, with evangelical and apocalyptic images, which gradually gave way and disclosed a car brighter than the chariot of the sun, accompanied by celestial nymphs, and showered upon by angels with a cloud of flowers, in the midst of which stood a maiden in a white veil, crowned with olive.

morocco extra, APOCALYPTIC SKETCHES; OR, LECTURES ON THE BOOK OF REVELATION.

APOCALYPTIC SKETCHES, THIRD SERIES; OR, LECTURES ON THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA MINOR.

And a good many other things which that Chancellor did, such as his quotations from Scripture in the House of Commons, and his attempts to convince that assemblage (when Attorney-General) that Napoleon I. was the Apocalyptic Beast or the Little Horn, certainly point towards the same conclusion.

Some time, after sad and strenuous after-lives; some time, after fierce and apocalyptic incarnations; in some strange world beyond the stars, I may become at last a Cockney humourist.

His world is a strange onea world not of hills and fields and flowers and men of flesh and blood, but one where the people are embodied ecstasies, the colours tints from evening clouds or apocalyptic jewels, the scenery a flood of light or a background of illuminated gold.

Men and women without another theological interest in the world are yet keen to argue about Millenarianism, and to try their 'prentice hands on the interpretation of the imagery of the apocalyptic literature of both the Old Testament and the New.

The Apocalyptic, Catastrophic Type.

Later Judaism, however, and especially the apocalyptic writers, interpreted literally and developed still further this picture of Jehovah's great judgment day until it became a prominent teaching of later Jewish and Christian thought.

Like the priest-prophet Ezekiel he is exceedingly fond of apocalyptic symbolism.

In chapters 7 and 8, which conclude the original sermons of Zechariah, the apocalyptic language with which he clothed his earlier predictions regarding the future of the Judean community disappeared, and he spoke as did Amos and Haggai, plainly and directly regarding the questions which were then stirring the people.

THE SEVEN AGES OF THE CHURCH; or, THE SEVEN APOCALYPTIC EPISTLES INTERPRETED BY CHURCH HISTORY.

As I pushed off and took up the oars he had eyes for nothing but the flaming cone, as if its leaping fires held for him an Apocalyptic vision.

These Orphic-apocalyptic sentences are a sort of foundation for a new Romantic bible.

Troubled as he was, no doubt, by the sombre events of 1850-1, and by the slow progress that the principles of peace seemed to be making in the world, yet the inspiration of that vision was never lost, and in the apocalyptic vision of the poem Plein Ciel he gave superb lyrical expression to the thought that man will find his heaven, not above the clouds, but in a regenerated earth, penetrated with the spirit of light and love.

That influence, owing to this misconception, is chiefly to be traced in the growth of an apocalyptic literature, and in the fantastical and material expectations of the Messianic Kingdom which they encouraged.

He pontificated and vaticinated from his retreat in the rue Saint-Sulpice, haranguing the reader with an apocalyptic language partaking in spots of the bitterness of an Isaiah.

APOCALYPTIC WRITINGS, writings composed among the Jews in the 2nd century B.C., and ascribed to one and another of the early prophets of Israel, forecasting the judgments ordained of God to overtake the nation, and predicting its final deliverance at the hands of the Messiah.

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