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scripture

/skrip-cher/US // ˈskrɪp tʃər //UK // (ˈskrɪptʃə) //

经文,经书,佛经,圣经

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Often Scriptures. Also called Holy Scripture, Holy Scriptures. the sacred writings of the Old or New Testaments or both together.
    • : any writing or book, especially when of a sacred or religious nature.
    • : a particular passage from the Bible; text.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as infact
Forms: scriptures
as ingospel
Forms: scriptures

Examples

  • In keeping with the facade, Williams showed himself to be dedicated preacher who “knows his scripture.”

  • Like all good scripture, Me & Dog can be read literally as well as metaphorically.

  • Checking Scripture demonstrates quickly that this is just not so.

  • It is not easy work, but it calls the bluff of those who would say “we have to take scripture seriously.”

  • For evangelicals, the way forward is not around scripture, but directly through it.

  • To fix on any one stage in such an evolution, detach it, affirm it, is to wrest a true scripture to its destruction.

  • The observance, under various phases, is described in Scripture as an undisputed and indisputable reality.

  • Circumstances might occur, in which there would be no warrant from Scripture or providence for making a given vow.

  • The fact that vowing and swearing to God are a part of his service is manifest, as we have seen from sundry passages of Scripture.

  • And again another scripture saith, "They shall look on him whom they pierced."