How To Use King James Bible In A Sentence
- Jefferson famously excised all miracles from his copy of the King James Bible; as a rationalist and a deist, he considered such stories to be needless embellishments.
- The language is a wild mixture of vaquero-cowboy Spanglish and the King James Bible — you ' ll find words like " pulverulence " and " sudorific, " and one character says, without a shred of irony: " Lo, would you behold what has arrived? Southwestern Gothic
- The King James Bible was meant to be read in churches, and the idea was that if you didn't gloss it, people wouldn't be able to understand it properly, and they'd have to come to church and they'd have to ask the parson in the normal way to teach.
- For in that time the same church hierarchy has ruthlessly suppressed the King James Bible, along with the Book of Common Prayer. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- Last week, I wrote about the quatercentenary of the King James Bible, regretting that none of the great literary festivals had plans for a public reading of this astonishing monument of English prose. Booksellers (and e-readers) – you have never had it so good
- Numerous passages in the King James Bible mention angels flying.
- BTW, "dung" is in the King James Bible (aka God's Word according to some literalists), whereupon we find this coprophiliac passage in Isaiah 36: 12: THE.... Sodomite Hal Duncan!!
- The locutions of the King James Bible echo through our literature so pervasively that we often take them for granted.
- English Professor Leland Ryken, in his recent book The Legacy of the King James Bible, identified four distinctive prose styles characteristic of the KJV: noun-of-noun constructions men of strength rather than strong men, woman of Samaria rather than Samaritan woman, interjections such as lo and behold to call attention to something important, the intensifying word verily and frequent and repeated use of the conjunction 'and.' Roy M. Pitkin: The King James Bible: 400 And Going Strong
- Kenneth respected the Word, but he wrestled with archaisms in the King James Bible - a certain portent of future editorial tasks.
