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  • "Thou answeredst them, O Lord our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions," Ps. xcix.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • And let them take heed who are under this frame; for although God may deliver them, yet it will be by “terrible things,” as Ps.lxv. 5, — such terrible things as wherein he will “take vengeance of their inventions,” Ps.xcix. 8, though he do forgive them.

    A Treatise of the Dominion of Sin and Grace 1616-1683 1965

  • (I praef, II lxxi 3 & lxxvii 5, V v 6, VII xcix 7).

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • As a work of art the poem does not rank high, though its tone is serious and earnest, especially where the poet pleads for his ideals, as in chapter xcix, entitled "Von abgang des glouben" (on the decline of faith).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

  • St. Thomas teaches (Summa, II-II, Q., xcix) that a different sort of holiness attaches to persons, places, and things.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • + In his "Dialogue" (xcix, 8), St. Justin quotes, almost literally, the prayer of Christ in the Garden of Olives, in Matthew, xxvi,

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • (Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes, LII, 1891, pp. 7 sqq.) differs from Sickel, and maintains that the original version of most of the formularies, and among them the most important, must be referred to the years after 682, and that only the last formularies (nn. lxxxvi-xcix) were added in the time of Hadrian I, though some few of these may have existed at an earlier date.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • Then comes the answer in Psalm xcix., which begins "THE LORD REIGNETH; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubim, let the earth be moved" (marg., stagger).

    Commentary on Revelation 1837-1913 1909

  • The slight anthropomorphism in v. 54, where ‘sitting’ is implied in Th, expressed in Oʹ, is more conformable to Babylonian than Alexandrian ideas; but this may be a mere reminiscence of Psalms lxxx. 1, xcix.

    The Three Additions to Daniel: A Study. 1906

  • ( 'Occhi, piangete, accompagnate il core') is a dialogue between the poet and his eyes, while his Sonnet xcix. or cxvii. is a companion dialogue between the poet and his heart.

    A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892

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