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
The words, "To make know," etc., indicate that the making refers, in the meantime, only to the divine decree.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm
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
The priests of such a temple would be exempt, by divine decree, from the rule of yearly travel.
From Temple Trouble by Piper, H. Beam
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
