Word: hosea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Huey Long quoted from the Bible, tried to look up his quotation in the Book of Hosea, found it was not there. So he expounded some other passages instead. Then he asked how many Senators had read the Schechter case decision. Only Idaho's Borah held up his hand. Thereupon Senator Long proceeded to expound...
...reges regnant et tyranni per me tenent terram," "through me kings rule and tyrants hold their power." Later, in the Sententiae of St. Isidore of Seville, iii 48, we find a long explanation of the sanctions of the tyrant's rule centering around a dictum of the Prophet Hosea "I shall give them a king in my wrath." Gregory the Great, in his commentary on the Book of Job, insists that the ruler, whatever be his weight or fineness, must not only be supported, but reverenced as a limb of God. More, in his Regulae Pastoralis iii 4, he praises...
...front porch of the church is a thin John the Disciple carved on the median jamb of the red double doors. St. John is the greeter. For "ushers" he has on one side of the porch Prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Hosea, Amos, Micah; on the other side followers of Christ SS. Simeon, Stephen, Paul, Barnabas, Timothy. Carved above them on the arch of the porch are two rows of angels framing a row of greatest scientists (Hippocrates to Albert Einstein, only living person yet figured in the whole church), a row of philosophers (Pythagoras to Ralph Waldo Emerson, only American figured...
...best Negroid rhetoric. After Moses has been called to his heavenly home, the world is again steeped in sin. When the Lord God visits a jazz cellar in Babylon, so outraged is he that he repents of his creation and resigns mankind to perdition. But the prophet Hosea inspires faith in his followers together with sympathy born of suffering. Beholding his works, the Lord God's attitude changes accordingly, and, at another fish-fry within the pearly gates, he presages another attempt to redeem mankind...