They had remarkable legends, sayings which they ascribed to a mythical Idoosi; also they have a song which runs: O well in the forest!
Never have I spoken of this to the Chief of the Isisi," Iberi went on, "nor he to me, yet we know because of certain wise sayings that the treasure stays and young men of our houses have searched very diligently though secretly.
He is mistaken when he converts all the sayings of Jesus into commandments.
With several of the personages present at Worms, and forming the flower of the nation, Luther had occasionally conversations full of that salt with which his sayings were always seasoned.
It is curious to note how some of these famous sayings have been wrongly assigned.
Common also to all nations must some at least of these primitive sayings be, for there is a primæval simplicity about them that knows nothing of race or civilisation.
To him, though the sayings and opinions of the famous "Gys Grandit" were not exactly new, there was something terrible in hearing him utter them with such bold and trenchant meaning.
Among the wise sayings of Epictetus we find the following: "We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts: our simple duty is confined to playing them well.
Every person may learn something from the recorded life of another; and even comparatively trivial deeds and sayings may be invested with interest, as being the outcome of the lives of such beings as we ourselves are.
I have made at different times three several tours with him, the results of which I have given in three several series of a work, entitled the "Clockmaker, or the Sayings and Doings of Mr. Samuel Slick.
If, however, I shall be enabled so to do, it is my intention, hereafter to add another series of theSayings and Doings of the Attache, so as to make the work as complete as possible.
Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.
Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth thesayings of the prophecy of this book.
And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all thesesayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judaea.
And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayingsof the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
And he said unto me, These sayingsare faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
God, not to view with too critical an eye the sayings and writings of men.
Let them rather approach such sayings and writings in a spirit of open-mindedness and loving sympathy.
There are differences, certainly, between the sayings contained in the Sermon on the Mount and the Rabbinical parallels to them; and for some of them no Rabbinical parallels can be found.
For the basis of such a description of the Pharisaic ideal, I take a remarkable passage now included in the Mishnah, in the treatise called the Pirke Aboth, or Sayings of the Fathers (M.
It is just conceivable that slight and unimportant sayings of his might have been picked up and made current amongst the Rabbis.
The Ring of Pope Xystus: a collection of Aphorisms and Short Sayingsin use among Christian Communities in the Second Century.
No Pharisee ever challenged him on either point, or on many another of the directly religious and ethical sayings which he uttered.
The general character of the sayings there grouped together is thoroughly Jewish; so much so that one could hardly imagine a Greek saying them.
All this goes to show that there cannot have been any borrowing from Jesus on the part of those who recorded in the Talmud sayings similar to his, or who used phrases implying similar beliefs.
That proverbial sayings should be used alike by Jesus and the Rabbis is not wonderful.
In view of the sharp contrast expressed in the two sayings just referred to, it might seem that the Pharisees and Jesus had nothing in common.
These sayings may properly be taken as symbolical or allegorical; but the evident intention was to assure his followers that God would protect them in their daily life.
His sayings are interpreted in many different ways.
Most of the sayings of Jesus regarding violence or non-resistance were intended to apply chiefly to personal relationships; he said little of international strife.
Is it possible for any one to keep the sayings of Jesus before he knows them?
Corinthians 2:14) Nor is it at all surprising that they had forgotten some of the sayings of Jesus concerning his betrayal, his death and resurrection.
How could Adam and Eve apply the sayings of Job to themselves?
John 8:51) Men cannot keep the sayings of Jesus until they hear them; and the world cannot hear until the Lord's due time.
What did the Psalmist mean when he said: "I will incline mine ear to a parable; I will open my dark sayings upon the harp"?
One of hissayings commends humility in the following paradox: "My abasement is my exaltation.
Epictetus, the philosopher, and Papias, a disciple of St John and author of a lost work on the Sayings of Jesus, were born there.
From the kitchen the chore boy takes up the sayings to the teamsters, "All is life, All is love, All is joy, All is God.
The waves of ether in the atmosphere of Orangeville were pregnant with all these sayings and produced such an effect on a number of ladies as to make them call at different times at the Treelawn home.
But we need not enlarge upon these sayings of Franklin.
One of Bunyan's pungent, alarming sayingsto the careless was, 'Once die, we cannot come back and die better.
And here those sayings are of their own natural force: 'How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?
And fear came on all that dwelt round about them, and all these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judea' (Luke 1:65).
And both these sayings must have respect to the souls of these men; for, as for their bodies, we know at present it is otherwise with them.
We must therefore diligently consult the meaning of the text, by comparing it with other the sayings of God; so shall we be better able to find out the mind of the Lord, in the word which he has given us to know it by.
Take two or three sayings of his, for the confirming of what is now said.
Coventry, the man I find a wonderful witty, ready man for sudden answers and little tales, and sayings very extraordinary witty, but in the bottom I doubt he is not so.
Such sayings themselves grow harder and adhere more firmly with age, and it would take many blows with a trowel to clean an old wiseacre of them.
The mortar on them was fifty years old, and was said to be still growing harder; but this is one of those sayings which men love to repeat whether they are true or not.
The anecdotes and sayings of Tsz-ch'an are as numerous and as practical as those about Julius Caesar or Marcus Aurelius.
His purpose was to trick her into heedless sayings that could indicate that the Voices had sometimes given her evil advice--hence that they had come from Satan, you see.
In the "Sayings of the Lord" of Matthew, these events were not narrated; but all the sayings were placed together, like the proverbs in the book of Solomon.
Another series of sayings and doings, from which the following passages were derived: iii.
Marcion, moreover, opposed allegorizing the sayingsof Scripture, and insisted on their literal interpretation.
Two of the sayingson the Cross are correctly given.
It is probable that when the apostles founded churches, their instructions on the sayings and doings of Jesus were taken down, and in the absence of the apostles were read by the president of the congregation.
Want of order: it is made up of a string of episodes and anecdotes, and of sayings manifestly unconnected.
The compiler of the first Gospel has shown throughout his work the greatest anxiety to insert every particular he could gather relating to the doings and sayings of Jesus.
Those sayings we may well believe were cherished in the memory of the early disciples.
The statement of Papias does not justify us in supposing that Matthew wrote the Gospel in Hebrew, but only a collection of the logia, the sayings of Jesus.
Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart," and "His mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
Whosoever heareth thesesayings of mine and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man who built his house upon a rock.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sayings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
