Bible Encyclopedia: The Sword:

◄ The Sword: (Living By) of Rapine ►

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The Massacre
... Asia had long been exhausted by rapine, but he would ... to which might stay the fury
of the sword. ... and, cleaving themselves a lane through the living barrier of ...
/.../chapter xxxiii the massacre.htm

A Compendious view of the Christian Life.
... last thou wilt find it bitterer than bile, and sharper than a two-edged sword. ... 1715]
meaning: Thou shalt not come near men who gain their living by rapine. ...
/.../clement/the instructor paedagogus/chapter xi a compendious view of.htm

Again on the Calamity of the City of Antioch. ...
... If, then, thou avoidest luxurious living, thou removest the foundation of extortion,
and rapine, and drunkenness ... For from a flying sword some one might ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/chrysostom/on the priesthood/homily xv again on the.htm

David's Anger
... asses and sheep, with the edge of the sword; those who ... us, O God; if thou be a living
God, a ... will inevitably imitate his cruelties and his rapine and treacheries ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/david/sermon iii davids anger.htm

Against Publishing the Errors of the Brethren.
... a foundation of good; but if for rapine and grasping ... whereas we, laden with countless
sins, living with an ... thing as if one, after whetting his sword, were not ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/against publishing the errors of.htm

Treatise v. An Address to Demetrianus.
... his own property, thus every one hastens to the rapine. ... prison, you punish them with
the sword, with the ... external misfortune or weakness of body: living by the ...
/.../cyprian/the treatises of cyprian/treatise v an address to.htm

The Extent of Messiah's Spiritual Kingdom
... pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation ... has produced few other
effects, than rapine, slavery, and ... from us (if he be yet living) is, the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/newton/messiah vol 2/sermon xxxvii the extent of.htm

The Doctrine of Non-Resistance to Evil by Force Has Been Professed ...
... thronging from abroad with intent to commit rapine and destroy ... who take up the sword
shall perish by the sword. ... was writing to me there was living, at Hopedale ...
/.../tolstoy/the kingdom of god is within you/chapter i the doctrine of.htm

The Fourth Book
... customary vices, with litigation, slander and rapine, with drunkenness ... into even
the least of living things, and ... famine nor nakedness nor the sword should be ...
//christianbookshelf.org/salvian/on the government of god/the fourth book.htm

The Seventh Book
... he is himself a robber: he punishes rapine, though he ... prevent lust, coercing lewdness
by the sword with the ... we speak, who have forbidden loose living as well ...
//christianbookshelf.org/salvian/on the government of god/the seventh book.htm

Torrey's Topical Textbook

Genesis 27:40
And by your sword shall you live, and shall serve your brother; and it shall come to pass when you shall have the dominion, that you shall break his yoke from off your neck.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Subtopics

Sword

Sword of Judgments

Sword of the Malicious Tongue

Sword of War

Sword used by Gideon

Sword used by Goliath

Sword used by Peter

Sword: David's Army Equipped With

Sword: Made of Plowshares

Sword: Symbolical

Sword: To be Beaten Into Plowshares