It was only through intense discussion and much persuasion that he was able to sway Shabbetai Zevi into accepting his messianic mission.
Yet derangement is often voluble; a sense of injustice combines with a messianic mission to communicate.
For good or ill, Russia was a "church-state" with a "third-Rome" messianic mission.
That was the fundamental and definitive act of his messianic mission.
The important element of the recent Soviet threat was its link to Communism's "messianic mission," to a "universalist idea that was inimical to our way of life."
Presidential rhetoric has changed slightly over time, but as Mr. Wolfe says, "the mission - the messianic mission!
Jesus' messianic mission cannot be understood apart from the cross, which the disciples did not yet understand (vs. 31-33 and ch.
But having seen so deeply, the hacker also has a messianic mission.
Reimarus argued that Jesus had simply wanted to found a godly state and when his messianic mission had failed he had died in despair.
For the mission - the messianic mission!