Bible Dictionary: Ambition: Connected With: Cruelty

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Habakkuk 2:12
Woe to him that builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Library

Pride of Prosperity
... Thus pride, ambition, prodigality, and indulgence bore fruit in cruelty and exaction. ...
as to countenance licentious, revolting rites connected with the ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 3 pride of prosperity.htm

The Sun Rising Upon a Dark World
... little repute, that had they not been connected with His ... and opulence, for the monuments
of ambition and arts, but habitations of cruelty, infatuation, and ...
//christianbookshelf.org/newton/messiah vol 1/sermon viii the sun rising.htm

Womanhood of the Byzantine Decadence
... and rage, he ordered Martha, though connected by birth ... regent, and was subjected
to great cruelty and privations ... Theodora on the altar of his ambition gave her ...
/.../brittain/women of early christianity/xv womanhood of the byzantine.htm

The Historical and Spiritual Causes of the Death of Christ
... c) Closely connected with this ... part of the Pharisees, love of gain and political
ambition on the ... and revealed in their true horror, and cruelty, and selfishness ...
/.../beibitz/gloria crucis/ii the historical and spiritual.htm

The History of Simon Magus.
... word." Upon these passages thus connected, the following ... long and uninterrupted course
of cruelty and blood ... calculated to foster vanity, ambition, and enthusiasm ...
/.../dick/lectures on the acts of the apostles/lecture x the history of.htm

The Roman Conflagration and the Neronian Persecution.
... of Peter and Paul is connected by ecclesiastical ... Troy, and to gratify his ambition
to rebuild Rome ... new entertainment for his diabolical cruelty, Nero wickedly ...
/.../history of the christian church volume i/section 37 the roman conflagration.htm

Accession of Cyrus to the Throne.
... and he endeavored to stimulate his rising ambition to the ... It was more or less connected
with the government ... he had first gratified the despotic cruelty of his ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/abbott/cyrus the great/chapter v accession of cyrus.htm

Other Self-Asserting Augustae --Verina, Ariadne, Sophia, Martina ...
... movement with which Irene's name is so intimately connected. ... power of the mother,
in whom ambition had stifled ... mankind, but dread of her cruelty prevented any ...
/.../women of early christianity/xii other self-asserting augustaeverina ariadne.htm

The Birth of Cyrus.
... to be, in some mysterious way, connected with his ... prompted by his selfishness and
ambition, which had ... been perpetrated, to remorse for his unnatural cruelty. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/abbott/cyrus the great/chapter ii the birth of.htm

The End
... It was ingenuity of cruelty to let him see for ... their life and prosperity are inseparably
connected with faithful ... The ferocity and ambition of a grim and bloody ...
//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions of holy scripture g/the end.htm

Subtopics

Ambition

Ambition: Aaron and Miriam

Ambition: Abimelech

Ambition: Absalom

Ambition: Adam and Eve

Ambition: Adonijah

Ambition: Ahithophel

Ambition: Antichrist

Ambition: Builders of Babel

Ambition: Christ Condemns

Ambition: Connected With: Covetousness