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  • And thence it is that tithes and other tributes paid to the Levites as God's right, amongst the Israelites, have a long time been demanded and taken of Christians by ecclesiastics, jure divino, that is, in God's right.

    Leviathan 2007

  • His sixth argument is this: if bishops have their jurisdiction de jure divino, that is, immediately from God, they that maintain it should bring some word of God to prove it: but they can bring none.

    Leviathan 2007

  • + (1) There are Divine actions exercised by God the Son in common with the Father and the Holy Ghost (e.g. the creation of souls or the conservation of the universe) in which His human nature bears no part whatever, and these cannot be called divino-human, for they are purely Divine.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • And thence it is that tithes and other tributes paid to the Levites as God's right, amongst the Israelites, have a long time been demanded and taken of Christians by ecclesiastics, jure divino, that is, in God's right.

    Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651

  • His sixth argument is this: if bishops have their jurisdiction de jure divino, that is, immediately from God, they that maintain it should bring some word of God to prove it: but they can bring none.

    Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651

  • But of things that are done jure, nothing can be said done jure divino, that is not also jure civili, unless it be done by them that having sovereign power, are not subject to the civil law.

    The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 1650

  • Mas essa natureza está envolta nas amarras dos séculos de dor, do obscurantismo, dos grandes enigmas e contradições da própria existência, do divino e do amor.

    Global Voices in English » Brazil: Indian writers and poets on the blogosphere 2009

  • And so they saw each other, not by design and yet not by chance, but, as afterwards became clear, by the divine will divino nuto.

    Archive 2008-03-01 The Medieval Club of New York 2008

  • And so they saw each other, not by design and yet not by chance, but, as afterwards became clear, by the divine will divino nuto.

    Nutus Divinus, or, Everything Depends on Seeing Each Other Nicola Masciandaro 2008

  • Ne confundam vesanos et foedos amores beatis, sceleratum cum puro divino et vero, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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