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
It is Asshur that shall do more for the realization of that divine decree first revealed by Moses.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm
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.
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
You do not alter facts by neglecting them, nor abrogate a divine decree by disbelieving it.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Maclaren, Alexander
