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The glorious angels, who, for burning in fervour and devotion, are called seraphims, are chosen by God to serve him in heaven.
The Ten Commandments 1692
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She was a dark horse, in field of fleet footed seraphims, a thick oil in the spun gold tapestry of the world around her.
somewhere she went impetuousme 2007
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Those cherubims and seraphims are up to all sorts of tricks.
A Wicked Gentleman Jane Feather 2007
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Those cherubims and seraphims are up to all sorts of tricks.
A Wicked Gentleman Jane Feather 2007
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The bright form, lifting up my charmer through it to a firmament stuck round with golden cherubims and seraphims, indicates the charming little boys and girls, that will be the fruits of this happy reconciliation.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Through the aperture the imaginative artist had made a spirit to be passing — - his head and shoulders were in paradise; these were also gilt and glorious, and on his shoulders two little seraphims were fixing wings; his nether parts below the aperture, were still brown and dingy, as were the four recumbent spirits who rested on their gridirons till the time should come that they also should be passed through.
La Vend�e 2004
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Isaiah, recounting his own awakening, reveals the spirit power of the shaman: “Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: and he laid it upon my mouth and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged”
MYTH IN BIBLICAL TIMES FRANCIS LEE UTLEY 1968
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So, when he came to declare his dreadful work of the final hardening and rejection of the Jews, -- one of the most tremendous effects of divine Providence, a work which, for the strangeness of it, men "would in no wise believe though it were declared unto them," Acts xiii. 41, -- he was signally proclaimed Holy by the seraphims that attended his throne, Isa. vi.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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And one of the seraphims flew to me, and in his hand was a live coal, which he had taken with the tongs off the altar.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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Upon it stood the seraphims: the one had six wings, and the other had six wings: with two they covered his face, and with two they covered his feet, and with two they flew.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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