noncontinuance

They fancied that the Boeotians had been persuaded by the Lacedaemonians to raze Panactum and to enter into the treaty with the Athenians, and that Athens was privy to this arrangement, and even her alliance, therefore, no longer open to them — a resource which they had always counted upon, by reason of the dissensions existing, in the event of the noncontinuance of their treaty with Lacedaemon.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

Thus God now reveals His will, not by direct theophanies, as in the first dispensation; not by inspired men, as in the second; but by the written word which liveth and abideth for ever (as opposed to the desultory manifestations of God, and the noncontinuance in life of the prophets, under the two former dispensations respectively, 1Pe 1: 23; 2Pe 3: 2, 16).

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

They fancied that the Boeotians had been persuaded by the Lacedaemonians to raze Panactum and to enter into the treaty with the Athenians, and that Athens was privy to this arrangement, and even her alliance, therefore, no longer open to them -- a resource which they had always counted upon, by reason of the dissensions existing, in the event of the noncontinuance of their treaty with

The History of the Peloponnesian War 455? BC-395 BC Thucydides 1866