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So I resolved to pour out My wrath on them, to accomplish My anger against them in the wilderness. Moses said to the people, "Remember this day in which you went out from Egypt, from the house of slavery; for by a powerful hand the LORD brought you out from this place And nothing leavened shall be eaten. You have also given me the shield of Your salvation, And Your right hand upholds me; And Your gentleness makes me great. With whom My hand will be established; My arm also will strengthen him.
Even there Your hand will lead me, And Your right hand will lay hold of me. Then we journeyed from the river Ahava on the twelfth of the first month to go to Jerusalem; and the hand of our God was over us, and He delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the ambushes by the way.
Now Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, "Oh that You would bless me indeed and enlarge my border, and that Your hand might be with me, and that You would keep me from harm that it may not pain me! For thus the LORD spoke to me with mighty power and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,.
I did not sit in the circle of merrymakers, Nor did I exult Because of Your hand upon me I sat alone, For You filled me with indignation. So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away; and I went embittered in the rage of my spirit, and the hand of the LORD was strong on me. Now the hand of the LORD had been upon me in the evening, before the refugees came And He opened my mouth at the time they came to me in the morning; so my mouth was opened and I was no longer speechless. In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was taken, on that same day the hand of the LORD was upon me and He brought me there.
The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the princes commanded by the word of the LORD. For on the first of the first month he began to go up from Babylon; and on the first of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, because the good hand of his God was upon him. According to the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man of insight of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel, namely Sherebiah, and his sons and brothers, 18 men;.
All who heard them kept them in mind, saying, "What then will this child turn out to be? And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a large number who believed turned to the Lord. The Arameans on the east and the Philistines on the west; And they devour Israel with gaping jaws In spite of all this, His anger does not turn away And His hand is still stretched out. But being full of the Holy Spirit, he gazed intently into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God; and he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened up and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.
Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,.
Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time,. I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your doings; I muse on the work of Your hands. For Permission to Quote Information visit http: Topical Bible Thematic Bible. God's Hand Strength Of God. It should also be pointed out that the BBC never once questioned the appointment of a linesman from notorious footballing hotbed Azerbaijan during the World Cup , and look what happened there.
Argentina had most of the ball but did very little with it, though Maradona looked dangerous when probing down the channels. Terry Fenwick blootered one shot 40 yards into the blue. At one point, Steve Hodge, looking to hoof clear, sliced a high ball backwards into his own area. It should have been an end to his afternoon.
A symbolic moment, the last men fighting the good fight for the old-fashioned beautiful game, crushed by the wheels of modernity. Whither improvisational brilliance in international football now? Five minutes after the restart, Fenwick clumped Maradona on the head as the pair went up for a challenge in the centre circle. And with five minutes to go, he upended the marauding Jorge Valdano with an absurd last-man slide tackle.
Whether Maradona was that fussed about all this dubious attention is a moot point. For a start, if you accept that deliberate and systematic fouling of talent represents the mother of all unintended compliments — the ultimate, often quite literal, stamp of approval — then this gives Maradona No1 status among those in the pantheon. Consider the questionable treatment meted out to the other greats in World Cups: But Maradona has been famously worked over on the biggest stage of all not once but twice: Second — and with far more relevance to this particular battle — it put Maradona in the frame of mind to attempt a little rule-bending of his own.
So poor old Steve Hodge never did learn his lesson from the first half, and we all know what happened: Maradona raced off towards the right-hand corner flag to celebrate, stopping only a millisecond to take a quick peek back over his shoulder, just in case the referee was wise to the grift. Nobody came out of this affair looking good, not Maradona, not Shilton, not Hodge, not Fenwick. And certainly not referee Ali Ben Nasser Tunisia , who had just presided over the biggest balls-up in World Cup history.
But perhaps we should try to understand his mistake.
Projecting our knowledge on to the canvas is almost unavoidable. And perhaps the most instructive tool to help us is the aforementioned BBC commentary that accompanied the heist live, and remains an honest historical document of first impressions. It took another 32 seconds and two television replays before the penny began to drop that something was seriously amiss. Now, as we mentioned earlier, Davies might not have enjoyed the greatest of first halves.
But for all his occasional bombast, Davies was a journalist of the highest order, a class act, the Maradona of the microphone. And it was in response to this incident that his quality — as well as his humility and humanity — shone through. Ravenna , Sant'Apollinare in Classe , 6th century. The upper part of the semi-dome depicts the Transfiguration. Ascension from the Drogo Sacramentary , c. Mosaic Baptism of Jesus from Daphni , c. Hand with halo in 13th century stained glass of the Agony in the Garden. Detail of Russian icon of the Last Judgement , 18th century. The hand often blesses rulers from above, especially in Carolingian and Ottonian works, and coins.
The hand may hold a wreath or crown over the ruler's head, or place it on the head.
The rest of the game was a rather strange affair. And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? Maradona did a good job of selling it by wheeling away in celebration, though his quick glances at the officials were telling. The Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod. Then Saul, who also is called Paul, filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him,
A posthumous coin of Constantine the Great the "deification issue" had shown the hand reaching down to pull up a veiled figure of Constantine in a quadriga , in a famously mixed message that combined pagan conventions, where an eagle drew deified emperors up to the heavens, with Christian iconography.
From the late 4th century coins of Late Antique rulers such as Arcadius and his empress , Galla Placidia and others show them being crowned by it — it was in fact mostly used for empresses, and often only appears on issues from the Eastern Empire. A similar symbolism was represented by the "Main de Justice" "Hand of Justice" , part of the traditional French Coronation Regalia , which was a sceptre in the form of a short gold rod surmounted by an ivory hand in the blessing gesture.
The object now in the Louvre is a recreation, made for Napoleon or a restored Bourbon king, of the original, which was destroyed in the French Revolution , although the original ivory hand has survived now displayed separately. Engraved gems are used for an authentic medieval feel. Here the hand represents the justice-dispensing power of God as being literally in the hands of the king. Charlemagne , flanked by two popes, is crowned, manuscript of c. The emperor is crowned by the hand. The hand can also be shown with images of saints, either actioning a miracle associated with a saint — in Catholic theology it is God who performs all miracles — or above an iconic scene.
In the Bayeux Tapestry the hand appears over Westminster Abbey in the scene showing the funeral of Edward the Confessor.
The hand sometimes appears see gallery in scenes of the murder of martyrs like St Thomas Becket , clearly indicating neither involvement nor approval of the deed, but approval of the saint. In the dedication miniature shown, the blessing hand seems pointed neither at Emperor Henry III , nor St Gregory or the abbot, but at the copy of Gregory's book — the same copy that contains this miniature.
This looser usage of the motif reaches its peak in Romanesque art, where it occasionally appears in all sorts of contexts — indicating the "right" speaker in a miniature of a disputation , or as the only decoration at the top of a monastic charter. In Eastern Orthodox icons the hand remained in use far longer than in the Western church, and is still found in modern icons, normally emerging from circular bands. Apart from the narrative scenes mentioned above it is especially often found in icons of military saints , and in some Russian icons is identified by the usual inscription as belonging to Jesus Christ.
In other versions of the same composition a small figure of Christ of about the same size as the hand takes its place, which is also seen in many Western works from about onwards. The earliest surviving icon of the Virgin Mary , of about from Saint Catherine's Monastery , has an often overlooked hand, suggesting to Robin Cormack that the emphasis of the subject is on the Incarnation rather than a simple Virgin and Child.
The hand appears at the top of a number of Late Antique apse mosaics in Rome and Ravenna, above a variety of compositions that feature either Christ or the cross, [37] some covered by the regular contexts mentioned above, but others not. The motif is then repeated in much later mosaics from the 12th century. From the 14th century, and earlier in some contexts, full figures of God the Father became increasingly common in Western art, though still controversial and rare in the Orthodox world.
Naturally such figures all have hands, which use the blessing and other gestures in a variety of ways. It may be noted that the most famous of all such uses, Michelangelo 's creating hand of God in the Sistine Chapel ceiling , breaks clear of God's encircling robe above the wrist, and is shown against a plain background in a way reminiscent of many examples of the earlier motif. The motif did not disappear in later iconography, and enjoyed a revival in the 15th century as the range of religious subjects greatly expanded and depiction of God the Father became controversial again among Protestants.
The prints of Daniel Hopfer and others make frequent use of the hand in a variety of contexts, and the personal emblem of John Calvin was a heart held in the Hand.
Very free use of the motif is made in prints relating to the religious and political fall-out of the Reformation over the next two centuries, in prints on the Dutch Revolt for example. In a high Rococo setting at the Windberg Abbey , Lower Bavaria , the Hand of God holds scales in which a lily stem indicating Saint Catherine's purity outweighs the crown and sceptre of worldly pomp. The similar but essentially unrelated arm-reliquary was a popular form during the medieval period when the hand was most used. Typically these are in precious metal, showing the hand and most of the forearm, pointing up erect from a flat base where the arm stopped.