"Alleluiah" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... often to do, when alone with me, in order to pray. But I was mistaken. That redeemed soul had gone, on the golden wings of love, to join the multitudes of those who have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb, to sing the eternal Alleluia. ...
— The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional • Father Chiniquy
... instruction is given "dispositively," when the Lectors and Sub-deacons read aloud in the church the teachings of the prophets and apostles: after this "lesson," the choir sing the "Gradual," which signifies progress in life; then the "Alleluia" is intoned, and this denotes spiritual joy; or in mournful offices the "Tract", expressive of spiritual sighing; for all these things ought to result from the aforesaid teaching. But the people are instructed "perfectly" ...
— Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas
... oppression, until "all they who are in their graves shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live forever," where the "tears shall be wiped from off all faces"—and where the righteous bondman shall no longer fear the driver's lash or master's frown, but freely join in the song of "Alleluia! The Lord ...
— Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman • Austin Steward
... multitude cry "Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb,"—synchronizes with that of the "great multitude," which, like the voice of many waters, and of "mighty thunderings," shouted "Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth" (19:6), immediately preceding the marriage-supper of the Lamb (19:6-9). They are removed above the troubles of earth, which are impending upon ...
— A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse • Sylvester Bliss
... "Amen and Alleluia!" said Father Warner, who probably little suspected that he was using Hebrew words to express his abhorrence ...
— Earl Hubert's Daughter - The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century • Emily Sarah Holt
... In the same spirit, the heavens, the holy apostles and prophets, are called upon to rejoice over Babylon in the hour of her destruction; and a great voice of much people is heard in heaven, saying, "Alleluia; salvation and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God; for true and righteous are his JUDGMENTS." "And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up ...
— Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I • Francis Augustus Cox
... depicted. The original design of this is at South Kensington. Noah, with a rainbow offering as he came out of the Ark, faces; and both are suggested by the neighbouring altar. Above, the subject is the Sea giving up its Dead, and the words "Alleluia," "Sanctus." ...
— Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of St. Paul - An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch • Arthur Dimock
... tones with which many of us are so familiar at home. I found the words welling up in my mind: "The voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth." I was glad there was no one with me as we dispersed, to speak to me. I could not have answered, my heart was too full. But I went back to the Maison Carree, and looked again at it for long, and then realised, ...
— In Troubadour-Land - A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc • S. Baring-Gould
... streets shall say, Alleluia; and they shall praise him, saying, Blessed be God, which hath extolled it ...
— Deuteronomical Books of the Bible - Apocrypha • Anonymous |
