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Note the same Lord Christ "ordains" the ordinances in the Old and in the New Testaments (Mt 10: 10; Lu 10: 7).

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

If he "ordains" women, he has no more power to make them into priests than if he were to "ordain" a dog or a rock to the "priesthood" -- notwithstanding that he DOES have the power to ordain Catholic MEN.

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- it grieves me to speak of it in this unseamanlike way, but in these canoes both ends are alike, and chance alone ordains which is bow and which is stern -- stands Pierre, the first officer, also steering; the paddles used are all of the long-handled, leaf-shaped Igalwa type.

Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881

-- "ordains" a woman to the priesthood, not only is she not genuinely (validly) ordained, but any of the men whom he ordains are not validly ordained either, because his purporting to ordain a woman shows that he cannot hold the intention to do what the Church has always done.

Midwest Conservative Journal 2008

M’bo the head man standing in the bows of the canoe in front of me, to steer, then I, then the baggage, then the able-bodied seamen, including the cook also standing and paddling; and at the other extremity of the canoe -- it grieves me to speak of it in this unseamanlike way, but in these canoes both ends are alike, and chance alone ordains which is bow and which is stern — stands

Travels in West Africa 2003

If you are a believer in God and in his son Jesus Christ, you believe in the sovereignty of God -- meaning that God is justified in whatever he allows or ordains in the lives of men.

Randy Miller: Burning The Quran Is Unchristian Randy Miller 2011

If you are a believer in God and in his son Jesus Christ, you believe in the sovereignty of God -- meaning that God is justified in whatever he allows or ordains in the lives of men.

Randy Miller: Burning The Quran Is Unchristian Randy Miller 2011

But of course, the libs have selective short memories believing that what St. Barack ordains must be – and immediately.

Leahy wants committee confirmation vote next week 2009

Next, the denomination ordains openly gay candidates or decides to bless same-sex unions.

Evangelicals and the Gay Moral Revolution R. Albert Mohler Jr. 2011

The things that many find contentious in his work – his view of the nude as a human animal, of its head as just another limb – are exactly as he ordains them.

Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud, by Martin Gayford Laura Cumming 2010