Quotes About Legions

But Jesus said to him, "Put your sword in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword. Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels? How then could the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must happen thus?" Matthew 26:52–54, NKJV

In between the two were the writers of the Apostolic Tradition, who forbade a catechumen or baptized believer from entering the legions, but permitted him, if he were attracted to the faith while in the legions, to stay there on one condition: "Let him not kill.

Olympians are the product of the Movement, and to get them to the stadiums, pools and playing fields, it takes the actions of legions of people who might not be Olympians.

The public highways, which had been constructed for the use of the legions, opened an easy passage for the Christians missionaries from Damascus to Corinth, and from Italy to the extremity of Spain or Britain; nor did those spiritual conquerors encounter any of the obstacles which usually retard or prevent the introduction of a foreign religion into a distant country.

That a few fanatics had flown airplanes down into all of that seemed less surprising to him than that legions more hadn't yet done the same. Half the world or more was already setting itself against all the complexity in one way or another, going to off to live in caves or gated communities, dreaming of a world with one god, one book, a world small enough to feel that one wasn't lost in it.

In our fervor to halt the potential spread of totalitarianism, what incredible precedent are we setting in Vietnam? By marching our legions through the countryside of foreign continents, burning homes, laying waste to the land, and indiscriminately killing friend and foe alike?

So now I get the scepter? Jason asked. Cupid laughed. Unfortunately, you could not wield it. Only a child of the Underworld can summon the dead legions. And only an officer of Rome can lead them.

Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family

hates Pompey and is determined to defeat Spartacus before Pompey can return with his legions from Spain to take

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Because civilizations are finite, in the life of each of them there comes a moment when the center ceases to hold. What keeps them at such times from disintegration is not legions but language.

The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.

The dictator was due to quit Rome on March 18 to join his legions in Greece.

He was pleased to receive his colleague's ships, but had no serious intention of finding him his legions.

he now controlled eight legions, loyal to him rather than the Republic.

the established legions would refuse to fight under the command of one of Julius Caesar's assassins.

the XVIIth, XVIIIth, and XIXth legions (about fifteen thousand men) were advancing through the countryside in column of route.

Menodorus delivered to Octavian Sardinia and Corsica, three legions, and some light-armed troops.

the Romans were regarded as unwanted occupiers and a plot was formed to entrap and destroy the legions.

following him during the years when he won one victory after another over incompetently led Roman legions.

Of the three legions' fifteen thousand men, few survived to tell the tale.

Quinctilius Varus, give me back my legions!" He kept the anniversary as a day of deep mourning.

And again he remembered the vision of fanatic legions following the green and black banner of the Atreides, pillaging and burning across the universe in the name of their prophet Muad'Dib. That must not happen, he told himself.

Flamininus was as good at his word. The legions departed. It was now up to the Greek city-states to manage their own affairs