How To Use Testament In A Sentence

according to the Old Testament, Elijah defeated the priests of Baal at Mount Carmel
In a richly ornamented setting with animals and plants on a red background, in 14 copper rosettes placed between lacunars, there are the Wise Virgins and Foolish Virgins of the New Testament parable; the former hold lighted lamps, the latter have lamps already extinguished.
The success of our initiative is testament to the high quality calibre of the producers in our region.
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It recognizes the Ten Commandments as eternal law and the Old Testament as Holy Writ.

His work deserves careful reading by New Testament scholars, church historians, and liturgiologists interested in the history of early Christian cult.
His face was smooth and beardless, a testament to his youth, with high cheekbones and a delicate looking nose and mouth.
People who longed for a more thorough introduction of Reformation principles during the reigns from Henry VIII to James I heavily relied on the Old Testament.
I asked how they knew what Jesus exactly said and meant, since there had been so many translations and versions of the New Testament.
Nowhere in Scripture is the Old Testament law divided into moral/civil and ceremonial.
Start with Leviticus 24: 16 in the Torah/Old Testament, which states clearly that "blasphemers" who question the Lord are to be stoned to death. Ali A. Rizvi: The Atheist Bus Campaign: Why it's Okay to Offend the Religious
And he shows that all those comminations and threats which we read in the Scriptures of the New Testament in no way belong to the nature of the Gospel properly so called, but are the confirmation of the law.
It will stand as a testament (like the sound they created) to their importance in the world of music.
Testament to all of this are the ear splitting cheers to which Jon-Lee exits the stage.
The spirit of my father grows strong in me, and I will no longer endure it; therefore allow me such exercises as may become a gentleman, or give me the poor allottery my father left me by testament; with that I will go buy my fortunes. Act I. Scene I. As You Like It
By the mid-fourteenth century, another specialized court emerged to hear, and record, public acknowledgements of property transfers, known as recognizances, including those made through testaments.
As for him, he believed the Quakers to be those agents of the devil foretold in the New Testament, who ‘despise dominion and speak evil of dignities.’
Within this framework, much of the First Testament has functioned in a typological or prefigurative manner, or as a shadow-like version of the truth God revealed in the gospel.
The New Testament injunctions to turn the other cheek and love thy neighbour were a great advance in civilisation.
Lengeling provides tables of the frequency of readings from both Testaments in fourteen Western liturgical books but without indicating where there might be only one such usage on the vigil of a feast not celebrated widely.
New Testament deacons serve the Lord by conducting the caring ministry of the church.
In May my English pen-friend since 1964 corrected my essay grammatically and sent me a small white English New Testament. Baron Pál Podmaniczky and the Norwegian Bible
The natives so embraced the pageantry and the promise of the new faith; and centuries later, testament to that Christian hegemony is the ubiquity of an iconolatry, none as dispersed into the bowels of urban and rural religious life as the icon of the Santo Nino.
Without once explicitly citing Israel's scriptures, it contains more allusions thereto than any other New Testament writing.
The tale is a testament to the fact that the past cannot be reclaimed once lost.
It was - and is - a compelling testament to the power of citizenship, otherwise known as strength in numbers.
The New Testament writers never quote from any of the apocryphal books.
The Second Testament Judean writers used the Greek term eirene for shalom, possessing much the same meaning and usage to apply to the gospel.
But the full concept of salvation in the New Testament is deliverance from our present sins.
In sum, the histories and the prophecies of the Old Testament and the gospels and epistles of the New Testament have had one and the same scope, to convert men to the obedience of God: 1. in Moses and the priests; 2. in the man Christ; and 3. in the Apostles and the successors to apostolical power. Leviathan
His pictures contained some of the most innovative action sequences ever recorded on film, a testament to the skilled directors, cameramen, stuntmen, and special effects people at Republic.
The Spirit's distinct personhood was no part of Old Testament revelation.
They were filled with a kind of righteous indignation that characterized Old Testament prophets like Amos, Isaiah, and Jeremiah!
Finally the One From Whom All Wisdom Springs cupped water, sky and loam in His hands, and wrought the most perfect of beasts, a creature of the purest substance, one which would bestride the world as a testament to the perfection of His creation, whose power would know no equal, whose visage would rival the angels, and whose consciousness could grapple with truth. Apocrypha « BAHAY TALINHAGA
Four volumes deal with different kinds of material in the Old Testament: narrative, prophecy, poetry / psalmody, wisdom and law.
PROBATUM fuit Test [= m] coram d [= n] o ca [= n] t Archie [= p] o apud London decimo die mensis Junij Anno d [= n] o mille [= m] o quingentesimo quinquagesimo secundo Juramento Thome Atkynson E [= x] in hmoi testamento noiat Ac Approbatu et insumatu et comissa fuit admotraco om [= n] bonoru The Ship of Fools, Volume 1
The obvious problem of pseudonymity of New Testament books is only briefly considered.
Making all allowance for the older sources utilised, and to a large extent transcribed word for word, in Judges, Samuel, and Kings, we find that apart from the Pentateuch the preexilic portion of the Old Testament amounts in bulk to little more than the half of the entire volume. Prolegomena
We believe the United States Marine Corps-wide ATO is a testament to the value and importance of our security system," said Dr. Nelson Ludlow, CEO of Intellicheck Mobilisa.
His Protestant heirs continue to view the New Testament as a seriously flawed historical document.
It's his masterwork, a testament to his love affair and a journey into moral territories that his late wife could only have approved of.
One of their answers they did not give forth publicly, but only to us in private -- when they said that the writings of the New Testament had been tampered with by unknown persons who desired to ingraft the Jewish law into the Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
The first thing I noticed was how bright the display looked-a testament to its luminance, which is measured at Macworld
The merchant maintains that the day for obeying the New Testament rule, "Let the wife fear her husband," will never pass away; that although unfaithfulness, which is assumed to be impossible on the part of the wife, may happen in other classes, in the merchant class it does not happen, and that the carouses of married men at the fair, which the narrator has heard him relating, and of which he reminds him, form a special topic which must be excluded from the discussion. Tolstoy's "Kreutzer Sonata"
With your agreement, I'll throw in the New Testament in Greek.
He did not see his seed, nor prolong his days, since he died childless; and we will not permit the word seed to be spiritualized on this occasion, for the word seed in the Old Testament, means nothing else, than literally children, which it is not pretended he ever had; and how could he prolong his days, when he was cut off in his 33d year. The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old
This is his last will and testament.
An unusual aspect of Wingate's life was his unwavering support of Zionism nurtured perhaps by his unshakable belief in the Old Testament.
Many 21st Century Westerners imagine that there are two Gods; the God of the Old Testament - harsh and unmerciful - and the God of the New Testament - loving and forgiving.
They respond with some fine, committed playing, a testament to the fine quality of this orchestra.
It's all a testament to the spendy tastes and fiercely pro-urban character of the people who live in this part of town.
Upper-level college texts focusing on individual biblical books from both Testaments further complement the series.
The final surprise is that in the Old Testament the Spirit does not appear as a divine being.
Needless to say, the Old Testament teems with such types and pictures which (as we saw last month) were specifically given to provide insight, instruction and illumination in relation to their new-covenant antitypes.
But the success required to reach those plateaus is testament to his ability as a quarterback. Brady? Manning? Dead heat for title of 'NFL's best quarterback'
And what if can be shown that intertestamental literature had an apocalyptic dominance too? Mythicism and Historicism as Theories (and an Altar Call to Take a Leap of Doubt)
Here's the effort of New Testament scholar Charles Talbert to get the whole of John's plot or story into one long sentence: "John tells of one who came as revealing, empowering presence; who picked / produced a new community and provided them and others during his public ministry with warrants for a different kind of worship; who privately predicted what their future would be like, offering promise, parenesis, and prayer for that time; and who ultimately made provision for their future community life, worship, and ministry before he returned to whence he had come".
Though it is little used today, especially since we have the completed Word of God, it was evident in the New Testament apostolic times.
Testament itself calls the entire work after its main contents (ha) tora or sefer (), ha-tora, that is, "the book of the Torah", as in The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
The immaculate state of the garden bears testament to a lifetime's effort.
The argument runs that because the word cease is different from come to an end, it means tongues will stop at an earlier date, that is, when the New Testament is complete. How I Became a Sci Fi Catholic, Part 2
That is a testament to the teams' hard work over the last few years and their expertise in this realm, " program manager Jaime Engdahl told reporters during a call-in conference for the press.
That Turturro can be convincing both as a Russian chess master and a Mississippi hayseed is a testament to his versatility as a performer.
All that happened was that the solicitor did nothing at all for a period of time, with the result that the testator died before his new testamentary intentions could be implemented in place of the old.
The word “berith” is sometimes used for a single promise without a condition, Gen.vi. 18, ix. 9; whence the apostle, handling this very promise, changeth the terms and calleth it a “testament.” The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
The word rightly translated 'laboured' will appear in its full force if I recall to you a couple of other places in which it is employed in the New Testament. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)
Another obvious gender difference was in the marital status of the testators: while male testators were single, married, and widowed, most women's testamentary documents, at least those that have survived, were written by widows. 50 Most of these were disposing of relatively small estates, often in exchange for support in their old age, and they tended to be less preoccupied with maintaining properties in the patriline, although this may simply have been a reflection of the lesser significance of the properties they were transferring. Gutenber-e Help Page
The Greek verb is used purposely instead of "builded," in order to mark that the building meant is not a literal, but a spiritual house: the Church both of the Old Testament and New Testament; and that the building of such a house includes all the preparations of providence and grace needed to furnish it with "living stones" and fitting "servants. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Appearently this ‘testament’ reached the ears of muhammed as well. One Ring to Rule Them All | Jewschool
In New Testament terms, it is as if the Epistles were preserved, without any of the four Gospels or Acts of the Apostles.
When reading this passage, our religious friends visualize church psalm-books. In their opinion, these psalm-books could include any Old Testament psalm set to music.
Messianic character of which is recognized by both Rabbinical interpreters and New Testament writers (see Condamin, "Le livre d'Isaie" Paris, 1905), graphically describes the servant of Jahveh, that is the Messias, Himself innocent yet chastized by God, because The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
Earlier we traced the new emphasis which, by contrast, Liberal Theology laid upon the historical approach to the New Testament.
His whole farm is a testament to the rich agricultural heritage of Gloucestershire.
Bugnini goes on to list the biblical scholars who were then asked by the coetus in 1965, thirty-one in all, to select all the passages from both Testaments that they thought would be suitable for liturgical use.
It places itself, as witness, before a regime that wishes its behavior to remain hidden, secret, undiscussed, and without testament.
Faced with such institutionalised miserabilism it is a testament to young people's resilience that more are not seriously depressed. Times, Sunday Times
It ought to be rendered, just as the word berith of the Old Testament, "covenant. Easton's Bible Dictionary
The term Jewish is modern, the Greek word in the New Testament meant "Judean, person of Judea". Dissident Voice
The aircraft's safety record is a testament to its designers' skill.
Perhaps even more significant, they were also adept at interpreting even the writings of the New Testament according to this dualistic code.
The war in Testament of Youth, then, is clearly a different kind of war from that which appears in texts by canonical male writers examined by critics like Fussell.
It's not possible to read Paul's New Testament writings and remain unmoved by his open heart, intellectual prowess and staggering bravery. John Shore: Toward a Christianity of Common Sense
As a codicil it does not annul the testament or cancel the promises.
The manual, launched on 22 February, will help in writing wills and testaments.
Testaments were vitiated in several ways: nullum, void from the beginning, where there was a defect in the institution of the heir or incapacity in the testator; injustum, not legally executed and hence void; ruptum, by revocation or by the agnation of a posthumous child, either natural or civil; irruptum, where the testator had lost the civil status necessary for testation; destitutum, where the heir defaulted because dead or unwilling, or upon failure of the condition; recissum, as the consequence of a legal attack upon an undutiful will. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
That first handful of novels, slim as panatellas, are testament to that.
Hey “wittynamehere,” did you know your New Testament was produced, written and edited by a bunch of dignitaries from the Roman Empire in the year 325? Think Progress » Paul Broun goes birther: ‘I don’t know’ if Obama is an American citizen.
The discovery of Noah's ark would reinforce a literal interpretation of the Bible, says Claude Mariottini, an Old Testament professor at Northern Baptist Seminary outside Chicago.
Hence a certain decision as to the Jewish or Christian origin of the poem seems to me especially turned by the fact, that the author's moral teaching coincides only with the Old Testament and not with the moral legislation of Christ, as we have it in the synoptists.
The first illustration called on chapter eleven, which itself drew from the entire Old Testament and intertestamental periods. Our Man In Heaven: An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews
His lashes were intended to kill; that they did not was testament less to her speed than to the imprecision of his fury. THE HELLBOUND HEART
The pre-Roman name, the Latin (our culture is a Romanized one, don't forget), and the castle being of course a visual testament to the spirit that made its construction necessary. It's moderation, Jim, but not as we know it.
It is to be noted that in the pre-sapiential books of the Old Testament, the uncreated The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
Among all the nation, the Old Testament concentrated on one — the Hebrews belonging to the Semitic tribe.
Her bending body evoked wordless memories of love and life, her supple arms gave meaning to nameless emotions, and her springing legs bore testament to perfection.
This favored stop in Homestead is one man's kitschy do-it-yourself testament to lost love: Latvian immigrant Ed Leedskalnin dug up over 2.2 million tons of coral rock to build this mock castle.
The Qur'an holds some of the same story as the Bible, and unless I'm mistaken, the Torah is the original old testament. Friendly religious questions for Christians and other monotheists
Their current position in the table is a testament to the kind of hard work, patience and stability that is very rare in football nowadays.
In Old Testament times, blood from sacrificed animals was applied to certain vessels in the tabernacle or temple to make them holy for God's use.
They are respected in the entire United States as being faithful expositors of the Old Testament.
Those who are familiar with the New Testament record of his teachings would admit that the material we possess is unsystematic and sporadic in nature.
In fact, the current hoo-ha there is a testament to the ruthless way in which the élite has traditionally withheld the details of EU agreements from the population.
The aircraft's safety record is a testament to its designers' skill.
The fact that he, Fletcher, could hear and smell nothing was simply a testament to the decadence of his senses. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
Both very old and very new, the permanent diaconate dates to the New Testament, but later became subsumed as a stepping-stone to the priesthood. As Priests Decline, Deacons Step In
Testament the Hebrew word berith is always thus translated. Easton's Bible Dictionary
The infinitive is most likely imperatival, an uncommon infinitive in the New Testament.
his easy victory was a testament to his skill
They were also troubled by what many saw as the antisupernaturalistic and antitheistic bent of science: could one really believe in the New Testament world of spirits and miracles in the era of the steam engine and ocean liner? Warranted Christian Belief
Including entries for many more words, the new edition also lists more than 25,000 additional references to classical, intertestamental, Early Christian, and modern literature. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, 3rd Edition « Books « Literacy News
Stewart's pained expression was frightening testament to the quality and precision of Hatton's work.
The Old Testament in Hebrew (which was the native language of the people of God of old), and the New Testament in Greek (which at the time of the writing of it was most generally known to the nations), being immediately inspired by God, and by his singular care and providence kept pure in all ages, are therefore authentical; [880] so as in all controversies VIII. The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
Mr. Chan holds a will granting Nina's entire estate to him. burned for good luck but not as a testamentary instrument - after amending earlier pleadings that Nina lacked capacity and Mr. Chan used Telegraph, the flamboyant Nina (dubbed in Hong Kong as "Little Sweetie" after a Japanese cartoon character because she favoured pigtails, colorful micro-miniskirts, bobbysocks and white PVC macs), had resisted attempts to have her late husband declared dead. Toronto Estate Law Blog
The immaculate state of the garden bears testament to a lifetime's effort.
The participants were very enthusiastic and excited about his chiasmatic division of the book of Revelation which helps in the understanding of this difficult book of the New Testament. Archive 2010-02-01
What must be acknowledged is precisely the lack of a Christian redaction of the Old Testament.
Back then he orated openly on Jesus and the New Testament, rebutting missionary claims and engaging missionaries in public dialogue and exchange. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: What Is Motivating The Global Ban On 'Kosher Jesus'?
Fiction has it that Mrs Marcos was a grand art collector, acquiring beautiful paintings as a testament to her taste.
In the New Testament, the term Galatia occurs three times. Galatians �� where was Paul��s epistle destined to?
New Testament nowhere speaks of the indwelling Spirit in such a sense as implies an obliteration or absorption of the conscious individual ego, while "effacement" instead of fellowship is a favorite expression in the Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891
Ruse sticks to the New Testament view of God as ‘an all-powerful creator who acts out of pure love’.
It was covered with inscriptions from top to base, in vivid white and blue, save where a vast and glaring kinematograph transparency presented a realistic New Testament scene, and where a vast festoon of black to show that the popular religion followed the popular politics, hung across the lettering Graham had already become familiar with the phonotype writing and these inscriptions arrested him, being to his sense for the most part almost incredible blasphemy. When the Sleeper Wakes
Each is supported by an Old Testament prophet: John by Isaiah, Mark by Daniel, Matthew by Jeremiah, and Luke by Nehemiah.
The Art Bulletin, 85/1 (2003): 114 – 36; Veldman, Ilja M. “The Old Testament as a moral code: Old Testament stories as exempla of the Ten Commandments.” Art: Representation of Biblical Women.
From a Christian point of view the Incarnation crowns the Old Testament manifestations of God's love.
Although the Old Testament is a literature about an ancient people called Israel, it is not simply a national literature in any narrow sense.
Both the Visigoths and the Franks, in emulation of the Old Testament, anointed their kings with holy oil.
If we look back in to the Old Testament, at books such as Leviticus, we see the word of God that could not possible be conceived as acceptable in modern standards.
Mr Parker claimed that due to his mother's illness, she lacked the testamentary capacity to make a valid will.
In the Old Testament it was manna in the wilderness.
As I admire the beauty of the Three Peaks from a distance I notice the visible scars of the footpaths, which is a testament to the erosion caused by thousands of walking boots.
He does not, however, represent recognizable Jewish thought or practice in his mis- representations of the Torah and other Jewish sancta -- or for that matter, New Testament and Christian biblical interpretation and theology. Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D.: Eddie Long Is Not A 'King'
Yet Seferis survived all this, and the lyrical anguish of the poetry is his testament.
The New Testament records that observant Judeans wore decorations called tassels on their garments.
But the energy of their protest brought its own peril, as they tended to become suspicious of any pronounced sacramental emphasis, even the genuine sacramentalism of the New Testament.
Their story is told in sacred writings of the biblical period, although the two books of the same name are not officially a part of either testament.
Thus a privileged land-tenure was created -- bookland; the rules as to the succession of kinsmen were set at nought by concession of testamentary power and confirmations of grants and wills; special exemptions from the jurisdiction of the hundreds and special privileges as to levying fines were conferred. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
Lynn Bauman explains, The term liturgy comes from the language of the New Testament itself. Archive 2010-03-01
The real leader is the drummer who makes a super-duper testament to rock, full of passion and rapier wit.
In the Old Testament, the law of Moses was given to the people on tablets of stone.
His introduction offers a winning format: the book is filled with hundreds of photos, organized as sidebars to help illustrate the discussion of the New Testaments content and the views of its chief interpreters.
Epistles to Timothy and Titus, which is assisted by a supposed analogy between the position of the Apostles and of their successors; although the term bishop is clearly used in the passages referred to as well as in other parts of the New Testament indistinguishably from Presbyter, and the magisterial authority of bishops in after ages is unlike rather than like the personal authority of the Apostles in the beginning of the Gospel. Scripture and Truth: Dissertations by the Late Benjamin Jowett with Introduction by Lewis Campbell.
3 — The constant sense of the word evinced — Dikaioō, use of it in other authors, to punish — What it is in the New Testament, Matt.xi. 19; xii. The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
In her last will and testament she left her assets equally to her husband and her children, being one quarter share each.
From the granite-and-marble statues of Old Testament kings above the main courtyard, to the blue azulejo tiles in the royal apartments (to say nothing of the Titians, El Grecos, and Riberas), the Escorial has borne up splendidly over four centuries. The Caudillo’s Cloister
It's a testament to her powers of enchantment---powers which in this case she exercised, as she was fond of saying," without the juju. GALILEE
The Old Testament was written in Hebrew, with a sprinkling of Aramaic.
In the light of all this, the question of how, precisely, the church ought to understand the relation between the two Testaments clearly belongs among those contemporary theological issues that stand in urgent need of rearticulation.
As one reads into the New Testament lessons, the idea of the new song can be concretized first through an understanding of the Greek translation of ‘new song.’
By 10-years-old, children were studying the Mishnah, which is commentary upon the Old Testament. Menachem Wecker: Why Does Pastor Mark Driscoll Say Judaism Is Anti-Children?
New Testament the same idea is expressed in the Greek word agape, which is variously translated as love, compassion, charity, etc. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
Although no one can say for certain whether the gnarled old tree is the very one cited in the New Testament -- the local Greek Orthodox church venerates the remnant of another ancient tree, for example -- experts who have examined it say it may very well date back to the time of Jesus. Zacchaeus' Tree Now A Top Tourist Destination
Everything necessary for daily observance is here: church season prayers, saints' days, canticles, selected psalms, and a 30-day cycle of New Testament readings.
he stated his political testament
Testament Scriptures -- one which was at once erroneous and singular among the Fathers of the Church -- applied the title Apocrypha to the excess of the Catholic canon of the Old Testament over that of the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
For the Old Testament prophet as well as the Puritan merchant, the real fear was that God would punish the entire community for spiritual as much as for literal whoredom.
This is not to imply that stemmatics is useless for the New Testament.
Hittite, for example, died out when its civilisation disappeared in Old Testament times.
This profoundly gripping, hopeful and crucial testament is a work of the utmost skill, sympathy and moral clarity. Strength in What Remains: Summary and book reviews of Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder.
But the moral law of the Old Testament retains eternal validity.
The fact that America has witnessed a devastating offshore drilling accident more than 40 years after a massive spill occurred off the coast of Santa Barbara is a testament to why we still need people like Adams. Robert Redford: The Force That Fights Deep-Pocketed Polluters and Wins
In Zoroastrian eschatology there is much which has become familiar from reading the Jewish and Christian testaments: heaven, hell, redemption, the promise of a Sashoyant (Messiah), the existence of an evil spirit Ahriman and – most striking of all – the prospect of a final battle for the salvation of man at "the end of time" between Ahura Mazda and Ahriman leading to the latter's final defeat. Zoroaster – forgotten prophet of the one God
For both scholars, the two Testaments are part of the theological enterprise; theirs is a biblical theology.
A framer in Washington, D.C., is rehousing George and Martha Washingtons' last wills and testaments with Alpharag Artcare.
Herbert's confidence and trust in the God of grace and love leads him to share in the same sort of intimacy characteristic of the relationship between Old Testament prophets like Jeremiah or psalmists like David and God.
New Testaments, and the idea that shall reconcile all as so many several forms, and as it were perspectives, of one and the same truth -- this is still a 'desideratum' in Christian theology. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Friday is Shabbat for Helen, and as testament to her upbringing she religiously goes home for dinner every week. THE MANANA MAN
Among other material now available online is Scotland's statutory registers of births, deaths and marriages along with wills and testaments.
Properly completed bequeathal forms have legal status, a formal last will and testament is not required.
The fact that he is continuing with his work is certainly a testament to his spirit and to his fortitude.
It has now been over seven years since Keith's death and his last will and testament has still not been honoured.
The slaves, who were liberated by a generous master, immediately entered into the middle class of libertines or freedmen; but they could never be enfranchised from the duties of obedience and gratitude; whatever were the fruits of their industry, their patron and his family inherited the third part; or even the whole of their fortune, if they died without children and without a testament. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Babits was a classicist: the legacy of Greece and Rome meant more to him than what he felt was the barbarousness of the Old Testament.
Like many other Old Testament witnesses and prophets, Jacob is shown struggling with God and not giving up.
The notion of God's fathership is also prominent in the Old Testament.
The Hours correspond to the Old Testament services beginning each of the four "watches" of the day.
The New Testament begins with the four Gospels - Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
This is his last will and testament.
Thus the Father had been the principal actor during the period of the Old Testament.
Boning a trotter is the ultimate testament to how you value your truffles, good work. At My Table
Testamentis, Divini praedicatio, per quod Verbum Deus ipse sese nobis revelavit, quemadmodum scripta Prophetarum et Apostolorum nobis indicant; proximum indicium est, legitima sacramentorum Jesu Christi administratio, quae cum verbo et promissionibus divinis conjungi debent, ut ea in mentibus nostris obsignent et confirment. The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke and disannul all and every former will, testament, legacies, bequests and exaction by me in any way before named, willed or bequested in ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament.
Try the patience of owners as it might, such uncertainty is testament to evolution.
The "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" is a term used to describe a concept from the New Testament of the Christian Bible, in chapter six of the Book of Revelation.
By Clause 10 he declared that all death duties and funeral and testamentary expenses should be paid in equal shares out of the shares in his estate given to Colin, Peter and John.
The monument is a worthy testament to the courage of the men who fought in the war.
All of those things are lasting legacies and testaments to the man's hockey career.
The theoretic coherence of their visionary practice is a testament to its reality.
An unusual aspect of Wingate's life was his unwavering support of Zionism nurtured perhaps by his unshakable belief in the Old Testament.
The most recent world records by Ian Thorpe in the 200 and 400 meter freestyles are the latest testaments to the strength of freestyle swimming by Australians.
The deputy judge had to take into account also the other evidence relevant to the issue of testamentary competence.
Barr suggests not only that biblical theology is not theology in the doctrinal sense, but that a serious unification of both Testaments can be accomplished only with doctrinal, not biblical theology.
As befitted such a grand success of the Church, the Crown, and the university scholars, the first edition was issued in folio in 1611; in the same year the New Testament was issued in twelvemo; by the end of the year 1612 the entire Bible would be issued in both quarto and octavo.
a canonical book of the Christian New Testament
5 However, even the few references in the New Testament that touch upon the worship of the early Church show that, far from being a wild group of free-spirited "Charismatics," the Christians in the New Testament worshiped liturgically as did their fathers before them: they observed hours of prayer (Acts 3: 1); they worshiped in the Temple (Acts 2: 46, 3: 1, 21: 26); and they worshiped in Synagogues (Acts 18: 4). Latest Articles
If God had wanted somebody with Saint Francis's consistently winning personality for the job in the New Testament, He'd have picked him, you can be sure.
The American biblical scholar Bart Ehrman, in a book whose subtitle is The Story Behind Who Changed the New Testament and Why, unfolds the huge uncertainty befogging the New Testament texts. The God Delusion
All Star Comics, the JSA's home in print), and it began a long "intertestamental" period in the history of DC-Earth. Blog@Newsarama
He stood perhaps a few inches shorter than me, and while he was clearly in fighting trim—the moaning hoodlum on the pavement a testament to the strength of his blows—the ill-fitting boilersuit made him look somewhat paunchy. Masked

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