Claiming sovereignty over the people because of his continuing action in history on their behalf, he had established a covenant (berit) with them and required from them obedience to his teaching, or law (Torah).
As attested in the Bible, God established a covenant with the Hebrew people and gathered the disparate tribes into one religious nation, Israel, taking steps to overcome the alienation between God and humans and to reconcile God's people.
But with thee will I establish my covenant: and thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy 10 chosen creatures.
They are trying to establish a covenant for the building, which postal officials said in a letter last December to the State Historic Preservation Office was, "slated for sale," though it has yet to be listed.
"As for me, I am establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you, and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the domestic animals, and every animal of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark".
In the biblical Book of Genesis, God establishes a covenant with all living creatures, and in the New Testament, St . Paulalludes to animals being redeemed (along with humans) in his Letter to the Romans where he compares "the groans of creation to the pain of childbirth and creatures awaiting their redemption in Christ," Linzey said.
A covenant established by the Smith family in the 1940s prevents development in Hambleden without the consent of the National Trust, one of Britain's most influential preservation organizations.
In 1638 the Scots had rebelled against the religious policies of Charles I, established a national Covenant and abolished episcopacy.
We are deeply reluctant to alter the terms of Our long-established covenant with Our Creation.
The century following Aquinas was marked by the development of the "theology of the two powers," which distinguished between what God can do absolutely (potentia absoluta), or logically, and what he has bound himself to do in accordance with the covenant he established with humankind (potentia ordinata).
US State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf issued a statement hours before the hanging asserting that, while the US "supports bringing to justice those who committed atrocities in the 1971 Bangladesh war of independence," Bangladesh should abide by the process of International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) trials established by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and other agreements.
