A Club; An Assembly of Good Fellows, (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BIBLE WORDS AND PHRASES As stated in "The Bible and Modern Life," the following words and phrases have been merely marginally noted in Bible reading, and then, so far as was feasible, those of kindred meaning assembled together. As an indication of the wealth of the Bible vocabulary, it may be said that many a similar selection ran be made, and that the quotations in the essay furnish the material for no insignificant one. Not a few of these words and phrases occur but once or twice in the Bible or the Apocrypha; and from the Oxford Historical Dictionary, we may learn that some of them appear for the first time and often, in the books of general literature. Nevertheless, as a rule, they have what may be called the scriptural impress. Even out of their context and presenting only the suggestion of the completed thought, they are picturesque, rugged, unique; while to the lover of the Bible, the allusion is quite sufficient to recall in many instances, the sentence, the incident, and the page of wondrous power and imagery and inspiration. MAJESTY and dominion and glory, sitting at the right hand of power and coming with the clouds of heaven, the glorious majesty of his kingdom, sovereignty from the Highest, his holy memorial name, an everlasting sign, ascribe greatness, glorify the house of my glory, lift up an ensign, oracle of God, his dominion shall be from sea to sea and from the river to the endsof the earth, the four corners of the earth, the isles afar off, armor of light, marvelous wondrous works, breast-plate of judgment, buckler, golden girdle, go forth in might, salvation for walls and bulwarks, sun and shield, golden splendor, pre-eminence, put down princes from their thrones and exalt them of low degree, longer than the earth and broader than the sea, exalted ab...