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For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel.
There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever.
The god of the world's leading religion.
Those small brown men who sell their sisters on the streets of Cairo were once the mighty Egyptians.
Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.
For now that it was gone, it all seemed Far stranger: more fantastical than Pharaoh. And he was changed: a foreigner among them.
There is nothing new in Egypt. Egyptians are making history as usual.
Philo of Alexandria,
It could hardly be made since the pyramids, it is thought, were erected in the predynastic age under the regency of Pharaoh Cheops. This pharaoh, who was also known as Khufu, lived between 2589 and 2566 BC, or one thousand years before the Hyksos (Levites) were ever heard of.
Despite the miracles they had seen God perform in Egypt, their eyes were on the power of the Egyptians. But
His Greatness the King Pteppicymon XXVIII, Lord of the Heavens, Charioteer of the Wagon of the Sun, Steersman of the Barque of the Sun, Guardian of the Secret Knowledge, Lord of the Horizon, Keeper of the Way, the Flail of Mercy, the High Born One, the Never Dying King.
This is now our life's work: we will create the Egypt they died for.
Survival in Egypt begins with a yes to God's call on your life.
The Egyptians have grown in confidence, they've tasted freedom, and there's no way back.
King of kings, that must be Elvis.
Apollodorus came, Caesar saw, Cleopatra conquered.
I will treat everyone equally and be a servant of the Egyptian people.
We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.
Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.
King Alexander, the son of Ammon and of Philip the king, also supreme king of Europe and all Asia, Egypt and Libya, to the Tyrians who are as nothing.
All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh's heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace.
Bloody Egyptian gods in their bloody revealing swimwear.
Every human face is more enigmatic than the timeworn expression on the famous Sphinx out there in the sands of Egypt.
At times, God's history seems to operate on an entirely different plane than ours ... Exodus identifies by name the two Hebrew midwives who helped save Moses' life, but it does not bother to record the name of the Pharaoh ruling Egypt (an omission that has baffled scholars ever since).
The mighty Caliph of Khorasan. The King of Kings. Her beautiful monster.
Annabeth nodded. "That's right.Alexander conquered Egypt.After he died, his general Ptolemy took over. He wanted the Egyptians to accept him as their pharaoh, so he mashed the Egyptian gods and the Greek gods together and made up new ones."
"Sounds messy," Sadie said. "I prefer my gods unmashed.
Moses had to re-check Gods' directions constantly. He obeyed God, spoke to Pharaoh, and everything went wrong, but Moses didn't quit. He went back to the Lord to clarify what was happening.
offered an overland excursion to view pyramids and sphinx,
The gods of Djelibeybi In the river kingdom of Djelibeybi, the national religion
The Sovereign LORD is a mighty KING.
Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.
Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of a fame outlasting the Pyramids by which he insensibly learns to live in a life beyond the present, and nourish dreams of a good unattainable by the senses?
Egypt is a large, complex, very important country.
In the empire of desert, water is the king and shadow is the queen.
People who know very little about ancient Egypt are most likely, if they know anything at all, to have at least a vague idea about the Pharaoh Akhenaten and be able to recognize the face of his beautiful wife, Nefertiti.
A fortune teller long ago warned him he would die in Egypt, and she walks like an Egyptian.
In an Empire where rats ruled, he was the king of the rats.
In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.
I am a monarch of God's creation, and you reptiles of the earth dare not oppose me. I render an account of my government to none save God and Jesus Christ.
The Ancient Egyptians were not fools, Carter. They built the pyramids. They created the first great nation state. Their civilization lasted thousands of years."
"Yeah," I said. "And now they're gone.
Sometimes you are garrulous, Taita.' Pharaoh was less than captivated by my lecture on the palace architecture. 'Get on
The study of the cultures of antiquity in general, and of ancient Egypt in particular, can serve to guide us out of the secular and dualistic impasse that we now face.
Brothers and sisters of Egypt, you have given the world the most precious gift: the belief that ultimately right will prevail.
It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream, And times and things, as in that vision, seem Keeping along it their eternal stands.
Man,
the aristocrat amongst the animals.
The people of Egypt, are the greatest people of earth; and they deserve a Nobel Prize for Peace. To all Egyptian: Be proud to be Egyptian.
A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.
Egyptians believed that the Pharaoh would be resurrected, but they did not accept the resurrection of the mases
Egypt has a presidential system. The president runs the state. Who the president is matters profoundly.
Tie my heart in Egyptian threads.
There's a reason cats were near deity in ancient Egypt. Dogs may be loyal, but cats are smart. This one must recognize our bond. You can take the cat ouf of Egypt, but you can't take Egypt out of the cat. Wow, I should have that embroidered on a pillow or something.
O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the Persians their empire. Do not therefore begrudge me this bit of earth that covers my bones.
Whether you're talking about the Egyptian pharaohs or Hollywood movie stars it all ends the same way. DEATH
Her name was Zenobia and she was a descendant of Cleopatra. She
In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.
Diadem, Cleopatra took part throughout the trip in religious
I tried to close my ears to the strange worshipful chanting and fix my mind on God, but the Egyptians' idolatry weighed down my weary shoulders and brought tears to my closed eyes.
People kept on talking about the true king of Ankh-Morpork, but history taught a cruel lesson. It said - often in words of blood - that the true king was the one who got crowned."
resplendent chambers of a true king's tomb.
Kings are the slaves of history.
OT Old Testament
The hideous god of war.
The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.
Unfortunately, the Egyptians weren't the greatest artists in the world.
We have here another interesting proof of a connection between XIIth Dynasty Egypt and early Minoan Crete.
The Mighty King is the God of all grace.
no more effect upon [him] than the miracles of Moses had on the heart of Pharaoh." The argument boiled
MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.
The queen's mocking laughter cut in. "This is your treasure, Lord Sheftu?"
"Aye. The greatest treasure in Egypt - a maid whose loyalty cannot be bought. Whatever bargain we make, Daughter of the Sun, must include her freedom.
I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.
As the Egyptians say, Ramses can hear a whisper across the Nile.
It is difficult to gaze in awe at the wonders of ancient Egypt with modern Egypt tugging so insistently at your sleeve.
And Pythagoras is reported to have been a disciple of Sonches the Egyptian arch-prophet; and Plato, of Sechnuphis of Heliopolis; and Eudoxus, of Cnidius of Konuphis, who was also an Egyptian.
[Stromata, 1.15]
This Plantagenet king comes from the devil.
Egyptians cannot believe Israelis are all
Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction to none of them, and yet he is the only despot who can never die, while any of his subjects live.
The tomb of ancient Egyptian Great Chief of the Oryx, Baqet III (2500 B.C.)
Pontius Pilate! God will not let you clean your hands of this!
If the Egyptian people can create a democracy in the heart of the Arab world, it will be a more significant contribution to civilization than the great pyramids.
[Moses] is obsessed with hip-hop and wanted a gold chain like his uncle Jay-Z.
O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest The soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil, And fruits, and poisons spring where'er thou flowest.
Only God, no other kings!
Akhenaten could have possibly been the ancient Egyptian figure onto whom authority descended (either by self proclaimed inspiration or any other means) to literally and physically cut off the link with the upper heavens.
And from this springs the extraordinary question: Did the Egyptians know about electricity?
The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher.
Had anyone suggested at the time that it would not be the Egypt of the pharaohs that would survive and change the moral landscape of the world, but instead a group of Hebrew slaves, it would have seemed the ultimate absurdity.
He's my elvis. I idolize Nusrat, he's a god, too
A king is history's slave.
Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite of novelty with perpetual gratifications, survey the Pyramids, and confess thy folly!
What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination
Thou wouldst make a good monarch of a desert
He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!
The mad King, the bad King, the sad King. Ring-a-ding-ding, all hail the King!
A king with no place to lay his head. A king who came to serve, not to be served.
13And Moses said to the people, g Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will work for you today. For h the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again. 14 i The LORD will fight for you, and you have only j to be silent.
Since when are Egyptians not white? All I know are.
The God of More Than Enough.God-- Joel Osteen
But if I endure in trouble, then Pharaoh and his troops are plunged into the deep, and the way out I have hoped for is opened to me.
Gobartes the son of Artabazos