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No one form of Church polity as permanently unalterable is laid down in the New Testament though the apostolical order of bishops, or presbyters, and deacons, superintended by higher overseers (called bishops after the apostolic times), has the highest sanction of primitive usage.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

You will say, however, that facts remain unalterable; and that in some unlucky instance, in the changes and chances of human affairs, you may be proved to have been to blame.

Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification 1798

Hitherto most philosophy, the illegitimate heir of religion, had been a consolation and an apology for the constraints and limits of human existence which were represented as necessary; it had therefore been a prop supporting the existing social order, just because its definitions of freedom had been abstract and had claimed some kind of unalterable necessity.

Sartre's Cage Hampshire, Stuart 1965

Being sent for education to any Popish school or college abroad, upon conviction, incurs (if the party sent has any estate of inheritance) a kind of unalterable and perpetual outlawry.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

Constitution makes clear that the court may only inspect such articles according to their form and not their content, while others say the court has the authority to intervene if an article contradicts the Constitution's first three "unalterable" articles.

Hurriyet Dailynews 2010

What is commonplace in this second sense of the term is people's ability to assign violently competing values to the same object, whether that object be gold, free silver, friendship, or an "unalterable" sense of reality.

Mises Institute Daily Articles (Full-text version) 2010

_ "unalterable" _ regulations were unnecessary where, as in a republic, all power was vested in the people.

The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut Maria Louise Greene

"unalterable" Seven Commandments into Napoleon's own laws.

George Orwell and the Politics of Animal Farm 1995

It crushed them with the weight of unending vastness and unalterable decree.

The Trail of Meat 2010

We are all bornwith a serious and unalterable defect: We grow old — at least the lucky among us do — and then we die.

Nobody Gets Out of Here Alive Joseph Epstein 2011