Bible Dictionary: Lying: Unbecoming in Rulers

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Proverbs 17:7
Excellent speech becomes not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.
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Life at Herrnhut.
... the laws, or conducted themselves in an unbecoming, frivolous or ... thus anyone who
happened to be lying awake was ... circle alone, but for all rulers, all churches ...
/.../hutton/history of the moravian church/chapter iv life at herrnhut.htm

Treatise on the Priesthood. Book iii.
... to avoid submitting to something which is unbecoming or unworthy ... I used to deride
secular rulers, because in ... of holiness is always surprising and lying in wait ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/treatise on the priesthood book 3.htm

Exposition of the Moral Law.
The Institutes of the Christian Religion. <. ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 8 exposition of the.htm

Useful Phrases
... despondent exaggeration. despotic rulers. destructive radicalism. ... luxuriant richness.
lying equivocations. M. ... unbeaten track. unbecoming behavior. unbending reserve ...
/.../kleiser/fifteen thousand useful phrases/section i useful phrases.htm

On the Death of his Father.
... gone before, since it would have been unbecoming to begin ... a more simple man than
our present rulers of the ... room, and noticing the tokens of his lying upon the ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/oration xviii on the death.htm

Rom. Ix. 1
... this rule, will be suspecting sundry unbecoming things ... mind's aptitude, knew the
pearl though lying in the ... dishonored priests, and elders, and rulers, and cast ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily xvi rom ix 1.htm

Dialogue i. --The Immutable.
... is the Prophet lying? ... Eran."About what is perfectly clear it is unbecoming to dispute,
and ... they that live in poverty, servants and masters, rulers and ruled ...
/.../theodoret/the ecclesiastical history of theodoret/dialogue i the immutable.htm

The Christ of the Gospels. By Rev. Professor Schaff.
... but as a truly human child, silently lying and smiling ... There is nothing premature,
forced, or unbecoming his age ... of the devil, betrayed him; the rulers of the ...
/.../the christ of the gospels.htm

The Strait Gate;
... is natural to professors; they think to get to heaven by lying, as it were ... by that
word, "We wrestle"with principalities and powers, and the rulers of the ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the strait gate.htm

The Last Days of the Old Eastern World
... free to do so, to make war on the barbarians, and seduced from their allegiance
the crews of the vessels just returned from Naxos, and still lying in the ...
/.../chapter iithe last days of 2.htm

Subtopics

Lying

Lying About Giving

Lying Lips

Lying: A Characteristic of the Apostasy

Lying: A Hindrance to Prayer

Lying: An Abomination to God

Lying: Ananias

Lying: Antinomians Guilty of

Lying: Cain

Lying: Cretans

Lying: David