How To Use Seraph In A Sentence

In heaven the seraphim criticize the cherubim, who look down on the thrones: the original bureaucracy. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
Even the Magdalene herself, eyes turned in horror from the abandoned grave to the radiant glory of the seraphim, had the faint touch of that naiveté in her eyes.
Poor dear good old Gwynne, tender, sensitive, shrinking, with the face of a seraph and the heart of a maid. Kempton-Wace Letters
At any rate, in some old books, thrones were a very high order of angels, just below the cherubim and seraphim. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
Overall, the heavenly hierarchy moves from the freedom and might of contemplative adoration (by the seraphim, cherubim, and ophanim) through principled order and sovereignty (ruled by the dominions, princedoms, and powers) to active service toward others in a spirit of compassion and care (by the virtues, archangels, and angels). Archive 2007-09-01

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So with all the angels and saints, with the cherubim and seraphim, let's all bow down in worship before the Lamb of God, who has ransomed us from death and brought us into his eternal kingdom!
Ceilings were painted in Michelangelo-themed angelic pictures, as well as the pictures on the walls lined with the broad spanning wings of seraphs and the pursuit of gliding in avian grace towards the luminescent clouds.
The boys who went there were a lesser kind of seraphs, sitting in the shade of a perennial tree of knowledge. John Godfrey's fortunes, related by himself
His voice was weak, but his countenance was seraphic, his long white hair reaching to his shoulders.
Dr. Raphael Valko and his wife Seraphina Valko orchestrated a campaign to excavate the body of a fallen angel from a cave in the Rhodope Mountains in 1943. Living With Music: A Playlist by Danielle Trussoni - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com
However, seraph may come from a root meaning "princely," applied in Da 10: 13 to Michael [Maurer]; just as cherub comes from a root (changing m into b), meaning "noble." twain -- Two wings alone of the six were kept ready for instant flight in Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
His innocence, and seraphic ways might have been the reason why his father loved him so.
But how faintly it was inbreathed, how passionlessly, as if the seraphim themselves were breathing upon him! A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
They are also called cherubim and seraphim, that is, cherubs and seraphs. Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation
Ye watchers and ye holy ones, bright seraphs, cherubim and thrones Three Stages of Amazement
Seraph stopped when the cloaked figure pulled his cowl down, to reveal a young girl.
Let us sacrifice the seraphs for the good of humankind.
Pulling himself back up to his feet, Seraphine groaned as he held out a hand to Erian, aiding him in standing as well.
He believes that her seraphic new image is down to some kind of medical intervention.
Never in the history of the church was there a saint, an apostle, or even the whole college of apostles, compared in such a way to the cherubim and seraphim!
Right above the bed, in the plaster, were images of a group of seraphs and cherubs, holding harps and bows.
The God who gallops through divine places with the cherubim and seraphim is the same God who changed the world order by simply standing up and walking out of the tomb.
Second, the four-faced angels are the Seraphim and are generally the top of the pile in hierarchies of angels.
When the curtain rose next Grace entered alone to begin her first solo, the King of Thule, filling the amphitheatre with her pure seraphic voice.
What is rapturously sung in the threefold invocation of the seraphs is the infinite exaltation of Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah
Every creature, whether a microbe or a seraph in the seventh heaven, had its mission.
Hydrophilos, having girded his sable cappa magna as high as to his cherubical loins, at solemn compline sat in his sate of wis-dom, that handbathtub, whereverafter, recreated doctor insularis of the universal church, keeper of the door of meditation, memory extempore proposing and intellect formally considering, recluse, he meditated continuously with seraphic ardour the primal sacra-ment of baptism or the regeneration of all man by affusion of water. Finnegans Wake
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The God who gallops through divine places with the cherubim and seraphim is the same God who changed the world order by simply standing up and walking out of the tomb.
In writings of fiction, whether novels or biographies, these death-beds are generally depicted as almost seraphic in lucidity of intelligence. Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
Shen of the Prediction '(while you polarized by Light patterns and can with compatible networks of tele - 39 Through the pineal area, or are within the mental pathways receive telethought communication, thought communication, can in - third eye network, the framework controlled by the servomechanisms your biological form may appear struct the human self with signals of our biological system, operating or' seraphs 'who control the the same, but your body can work which persist i n "real time" by within the dynamic aspects of mechanical imagery of the mind). with multiple biological environ - color patches of quantized brain ac - Gravity waves and Light waves,' The Way of Shen of the Predic - ments in its three-dimensional layer tivities which can order the ma - can experience the boundaries of tion 'is also called' phyva-gsen of physical reality. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
You, dear seraph of the Classic Angel Collection, have twenty more days to teach me this before you're off to your heaven under the stairs. To A Christmas Angel, a triptych
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The seraph is the divine messenger, and he brings a coal from the altar, and lays that upon the prophet's lips, which is but the symbolical way of saying that the man who is conscious of his own evil will find in himself a blessed despair of being his own healer, and that he has to turn to the divine source, the vision of which has kindled the consciousness, to find there that which will take away the evil. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah
It was a lavish manor, decorated with cherubs and seraphs.
Thinking to comfort her love, Seraph sat and cradled Heart to her breast, combing her hair to calm her.
Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar.
He writes of the "damp garden of the seriphs," and I wonder if he means "seraphs," or if he has combined the American "serif" with the British Dbqp: visualizing poetics
looking so seraphic when he slept
Bengalesey, some of 'em 'ookin' it to Suakim, some of 'em retirin 'on the seraphim, which is another name for Berkshires. The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
Right above the bed, in the plaster, were images of a group of seraphs and cherubs, holding harps and bows.
They seemed to pierce the sky like shining daggers, and Simon realized where he had seen that material before: in the hard, glasslike weapons the Shadowhunters carried, the ones they called seraph blades. Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
From the highest to the lowest in rank, the orders are seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominions, virtues, powers, principalities, archangels, and angels.
All of a sudden there was this seraph, this six-winged angel on a cross, floating right in front of me... The Hill of Crosses
In Catholic Theory the seraphim is the only angel higher in the angel hierarchy. Everything2 New Writeups
The speed with which the seraph touches those lips with a coal indicates the readiness of God to remove our guilt and make us ready for God's service.
According to a website specialising in the origin of names, Seraphina is derived from the Biblical word seraphim, which is Hebrew in origin and means fiery ones. Sky Showbiz - Latest
Saint Francis and Saint Anthony, the Seraphic Founder and the Learned Apostle (meo episcopus) of the Franciscan Order, are two great "figures" [not real figures, mind you, but the fake kind that need to go in quotation marks] who have stirred the perpetual engine [the what?] of humble and simple spirituality, a perpetual source for all people who are suffering from an existential aridity. Archive 2008-02-01
Seraph signed the paperwork for the clerk to bill her bank account, having nowhere near the amount in ready cash, and they prepared to take the bed to the apartment.
They say God could have forgiven me, let me repent and brought me back into the fold of the seraphim, yet He chose not to.
Here in Baghdad I am writing next to a table lately sliced in two by a falling pane of glass, and am told by the seraphic ambassador that we could be shelled again at any time.
One day she decided to sort out his wardrobe, and sell off his shabbier clothes to Seraphina. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
None of them had the kind of bankroll Seraph had.
Granite steps, which are guarded by two original lamp-bearing seraphim, lead to the original wide, heavy Georgian door.
The music of dawn floated in through his open window, a gentle melody of two or three seraphic pianolas playing, in unison, a lost song of an eternally troubled composer, whose name is not on one's lips, but in the sky.
Cherubim and seraphim frolicked along the borders of the ceiling and darted among blush-colored clouds.
From the highest to the lowest in rank, the orders are seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominions, virtues, powers, principalities, archangels, and angels.
As more modern recordings came along, old favorites, stereophonic and monaural, were released on Seraphim at a fraction of their original price.
The word seraphim means ‘fiery one,’ which if you study your Libro Rosso, you will recognize as the original name of the Queen of Sheba. The Poet Prince
beano"; while the lonely -- well, one likes to imagine that there are no lonely ones at Christmas-time; or, if there are -- that somebody has asked them out, or they have toothache and so wouldn't appreciate even the society of jolly seraphims. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends
So with all the angels and saints, with the cherubim and seraphim, let's all bow down in worship before the Lamb of God, who has ransomed us from death and brought us into his eternal kingdom!
And the dirt beneath his feet was sacred and rich, because her petite feet had once graced it with their seraphic presence.
Surely, if any spot in the world be sacred, it is that in which grief ceases, and for which, if the voice within our hearts mocks us not with an everlasting lie, we spring upon the untiring wings of a pangless and seraphic life -- those whom we love around us -- our nature, universal intelligence, our atmosphere, eternal love. Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer
From top to bottom, the celestial hierarchy includes seraphim, cherubim, thrones; dominions, virtues, powers; principalities, archangels, and angels.
In among the swirls of blackness, she could see the bright flashes of weapons, the Shadowhunters brandishing the brilliant white daggers Tessa knew now were called seraph blades, each one brought into shimmering life by the name of an angel. Clockwork Angel
We can trace it in the joy of his seraphic graphic art.
Hovering above him were mighty six-winged seraphs.
The theatre is a small gem, quaint and beautiful, recently refurbished in a mellow and plush aubergine, with plaster seraphim and cherubim gambolling cheerily along the fronts of the balcony and boxes.
Insulting the two highest ranking seraphim may not be the most intelligent thing to do.
When used as a sheep-dip it is forbidden to allow sheep producing milk for human consumption to go near Seraphos.
I was the mightiest, strongest, most beautiful and most adored of the seraphim, there was no other above me in the ranks, aside from the Creator and his Son.
And all the cherubim and seraphim sing ‘alleluia.’
Isaiah sees the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty; the hem of God's robe filling the temple, seraphs in attendance, each with six wings.
But meanwhile, let us not forget that the coming of the Friars was a moral protest too; and in that moral protest the sons of St. Dominic from the first took, and were meant to take, their full part; Cherubim and Seraphim must hymn together the dazzling holiness of God. Protestantism
(Ezek. 1), is permanently and before all others immediately united to Him; for the explanation of the Holy Scripture tells us that the most holy throne and the many-eyed and many-winged ranks, which in Hebrew are called cherubim and seraphim, stand before God in the closest proximity. A Source Book for Ancient Church History
The spirit that has inhabited the preacher is known as Genesis, a burning ball of fire with infant features who was conceived between one of the angels of the Seraphi and a demon from hell. 2010 February 26 « The BookBanter Blog
The word seraph would better express their heavenly attributes. The Planter's Northern Bride
He looked at her with eyes unlike anyone else's: eyes that were seraphic bright blue, but with pupils burning with coruscating white fire.
You cease to care much for the melancholy greenness of the disfeatured statues which has been your chief winter's intimation of verdure; and before you are quite conscious of the tender streaks and patches in the great quaint grassy arena round which the Propaganda students, in their long skirts, wander slowly, like dusky seraphs revolving the gossip of Paradise, you spy the brave little violets uncapping their azure brows beneath the high-stemmed pines. Italian Hours
Surely, if any spot in the world be sacred, it is that in which grief ceases, and for which, if the voice within our hearts mocks us not with an everlasting lie, we spring upon the untiring wings of a pangless and seraphic life ” those whom we love around us ” our nature, universal intelligence, our atmosphere, eternal love.” Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer
Over a hundred years later, the earth has plunged into an ice age, and seraphs and demons fight a never-ending battle while religious strife rages among the surviving humans. [INTERVIEW] Faith Hunter (Gwen Hunter) « Urban Fantasy Land
It's like hearing the cherubim and seraphim sing with Satan's own orchestra.
A fiery glow encircled him and it was obvious to the three seraphs there why Michael was the Warrior of God; he was frightening.
In heaven the seraphim criticize the cherubim, who look down on the thrones: the original bureaucracy. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
Never in the history of the church was there a saint, an apostle, or even the whole college of apostles, compared in such a way to the cherubim and seraphim!
We are presented with artistic, albeit traditional, images of heaven and hell, complete with cherubim and seraphim (in the former), and demons and gargoyles (in the latter).
Or Quezacotl the Feathered Serpent (hey, more seraphim?) who is identified as a civilising force of light and good against the forces of darkness and chaos. You Go, Greydanus, or, O'Brien and the Dragon
he imagined a seraphic presence in the room
Bury the creature if you lose control of Seraph.
No seraphs bold, nor angels daring, ever penetrated the darkened highways or flashed on flaming pinions over the howling seas, gyral cataracts and leaping billows of that wide and black waste that divided the empire of sin from the empire of life. Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D.,
Unfortunately, the removal of this section of the picture was accompanied by the destruction of a frescoed lunette, depicting God the Father with Seraphim, which had originally surmounted the main field.
He felt a painful affection for her; she seemed seraphic, untouched by evil, as fine and delicate as a ghost in a tale. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
Growing from the subsoil of peasant culture and shaped by folk religion, they are seraphic, as in Oleksy's devotional works and devilishly rebellious, as in Mucha's powerful carvings.
Above the cornices are three other pedestals, supporting the three Saints, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael; and above St. Michael, in the midst of cherubim and seraphim, is a representation of the Eternal Father. Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
In old times, the _bne Elohim_ and the seraphim are His court, and the angels are alike the court and the army of God; the cherubim are his throne-bearers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
He wears boots of red leather, and huge spurs with bell rowels; and he is never seen without the "seraph". The Rifle Rangers
And the appearance of seraphs heralded three plagues and a devastating war between the forces of good and evil. [INTERVIEW] Faith Hunter (Gwen Hunter) « Urban Fantasy Land
St Thomas Aquinas had an arrangement of angels - they ranged from angels, archangels and so on up to seraphims.
At any rate, in some old books, thrones were a very high order of angels, just below the cherubim and seraphim. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
Of course so have the archangel, the principle, the cherubim, seraphim, and many of the others.
I sorely missed Berenike of "Laodicea" at that moment, for really, it is Berenike who introduced "Seraphic Singles" to the Traddie British bit of the Catholic Blogosphere. Undefined
The Seraph, quick as a robin, was the first to pounce upon a large, but active dew-worm, which, he announced, was Explorers of the Dawn
Dionysius established the celestial hierarchy of nine choirs: seraphim, cherubim, and thrones; dominations, virtues, and powers; principalities, archangels, and angels, the last two having a direct mission to men.
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Seraphina is derived from the Biblical word seraphim, is Hebrew in origin and means fiery ones. Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors celebrity scandals Hollywood gossip blog from Hollywood Grind
One wonders whether he fathered his daughter Margaret or simply dreamed up this seraph with a tip-tilted nose as he portrayed her in Flamma Vestalis.
Funerals are now talked about as much as they ever were in the morbid high Victorian era of mourning stationery and seraphic monuments.
And in a child's voice, so full of seraphic purity, the words were read.
For a time there are smiles, and arms lifted up, and seraphic dreamy looks, and a swaying to the music, and warm embraces of other people and enthusiasm for Christian things.
Seraph is of the highest rank of angels in the Bible.
The cherubim and seraphim were gentle and polite, but their conversation revolved mainly around falling down before Him in adoration and singing praises unto His holy name, and she rapidly tired of it all.
The word seraph means "celestial being" and seraphim represent the highest known rank of angels. WordPress.com News
From top to bottom, the celestial hierarchy includes seraphim, cherubim, thrones; dominions, virtues, powers; principalities, archangels, and angels.

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