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

In such a nation as this, an election is equivalent to a divine decree, and irreversible.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

The empire of the sword has also illustrated the divine decree: “All that take the sword shall perish with the sword”.

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Allies, Thomas W.

The Council, so to speak, of “headmen” accept the divine decree, and the assembled tribe pass the Act.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various

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