Word: covenanter
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After the wedding the two young officers, their wives and mothers, set off by mule caravan for Constantinople, this time to attend staff college. Shortly after their arrival war broke out in the Balkans, and Nuri went off to the front, but he and Jafar became convinced that advancement was...
...from the impious enemy. Then the Romans came, and in that summer A.D. 68 the Community of the New Covenant at Qumran sank beneath the surging tide of history that laid waste Jerusalem and began the great dispersion of the Jews. For nearly 19 centuries nothing remained of the covenanters but a dim tradition and a ruin in the desert like an enormous graveyard. Christianity spread from Palestine, Rome fell, Mohammed's conquering armies passed within a few miles of that graveyard; so again and again did the Crusaders, never suspecting its secrets. Today Qumran is yielding up those...
The Matrix. The scroll community called itself the people of the New Covenant or New Testament, and some of them may have become Christians after the Romans scattered them from their center on the Dead Sea. But the scholars on the ground agree that they were in no sense Christian...
Now, of the virtue of this Gospel there is no doubt. From the time of our Covenant with all the mighty we have prospered as has no other sect on the face of the earth. We have grown in wisdom and in virtue, in character and in charity, in science...
who have turned away from Thy covenant.