divine decree

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The British colonizers were driven by the belief that they were entitled by divine decree and by royal declaration to live on and use the land and resources of North America.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Moreover, it is certain that I am not a champion of religion by the law of Nature, that is, by the divine decree.

From The Philosophy of Spinoza by Ratner, Joseph

This divine decree was reported to Alcestis, Admetus’ beautiful young wife, who in a passion of self-sacrifice offered herself as substitute, and cheerfully gave her life for her husband.

From Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by Guerber, H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline)

He pictured the long lingering illness that followed that fatal wound, the patience of the sufferer, the unfaltering front with which he faced death, and his simple resignation to the divine decree.

From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by Sherman, John

But this duty, as I say, has been enjoined me by the deity, by oracles, by dreams, and by every mode by which any other divine decree has ever enjoined anything to man to do.

From Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Cary, Henry