9 sentences with 'divine'
Example sentences and phrases with the word divine and other words derived from it.
• « At the other end of the Chinese soil lived Sheng Nong or the divine plowman, better known as the Red Emperor, who taught men to cultivate the land. »
• « The idea that the disease was a divine punishment was consolidated with the advent of Christianity. Christus Medicus Salvator was the name given to the son of God. »
• « It was not a divine punishment, but an epidemic that spread throughout the territory because the elementary rules of prophylaxis had not been observed. Unfortunately, such mistakes are still being made today. »
• « The idea was that divine harmony existed only in Egypt and had to be brought to the rest of the world, by force if necessary. »
• « Pharaohs were still thought of as divine, but that did not mean that they simply bullied their subjects. »
• « Each king had five names: his birth name, three related to his divine status and one related to the rule of the two unified kingdoms. One of the divine names referred to the divine kingship itself, temporally linked to the actual holder of that title: whoever was king at the time. »
• « The key difference between this belief and the idea of divine wrath in other ancient religions was that Yahweh only punished those who deserved it. He was neither capricious and cruel like the Mesopotamian gods, for example, nor frivolous and quarrelsome like the Greek gods. »