divine punishment

The people of the time could only imagine such a flood as a divine punishment from God.

In some religions, disease is seen as a divine punishment for sin.

It was also seen by others as divine punishment.

However, the juror could experience divine punishment for breaking the oath.

In society, it was believed that if people lose their chastity, they will get divine punishment.

Could this be taken as divine punishment for his rejection of the horsewoman?

In past centuries, the development of breast cancer was most commonly seen as divine punishment or a trial.

This event was interpreted as a divine punishment for the past violences.

In former times, leprosy was seen as a divine punishment for sins committed.

That suggests they were not originally intended as 'divine punishment.' "

One branch felt that it was divine punishment for forsaking the ways of the ancestors.

Within Christendom, famines were sometimes even seen as divine punishments.

The curse of lycanthropy was also considered by some scholars as being a divine punishment.

Divine punishment was rehabilitative, not penal, and designed to reform the person.

She did not believe in the possibility of divine punishment of vulgarity.

Hence death is Kamunu's divine punishment for his disobedient behaviour.

Many in the empire saw their defeat as "Allah's divine punishment for a society that did not know how to pull itself together".

The history behind the biblical tale of two cities, destroyed in divine punishment for their wickedness.

Alternatively, patients often saw it as divine punishment.

The film switches the infertility from male to female, but never explains its cause: environmental destruction and divine punishment are considered.

They call themselves "earthly agents of divine punishment".

A second complex legal debate centers around the precise divine punishment for stepping onto these forbidden spots.

The Epicureans also denied the existence of an afterlife and the need to fear divine punishment after death.

Asked about the question of divine punishment last September, the Pope did not offer journalists a categorical answer.

Rose believes that even the best political system needs to be supplemented with fear of divine punishment to curb immortality within the law.