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 Bible tells us that God made us in His image and placed us here to carry out a divine decree.
From In His Image by William Jennings Bryan
There is one place in the world devoted by divine decree to pure air.
From Among the Forces by Henry White Warren
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 Henry Cary
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 Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
