There was given to him a sign from heaven, that he might be strengthened to bear this responsibility, and that the Messiah might never seem to be only of the Baptist's Appointing and not of God's.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
For what man old enough to have heaped up his sins does not, out of that very ache for a new beginning, seek to bespeak one of heaven by Appointing a time and a season for it?
"The Debit Account"
Oliver Onions
The Cluster Councils retained the power of Appointing the local governors, but aside from that the newly-opened worlds of the Edge were completely under their own rule.
"Warlord of Kor"
Terry Gene Carr