The scoff of Cicero at the divinity of Liber and Ceres (bread and wine) may be translated literally by the modern Protestant; and the sarcasms which Clement and Tertullian flung at the Pagan creed, the modern sceptic returns upon their own.
No doubt it was one of those cases of coming to scoff and remaining to pray that you hear about, but don't often actually see.
Men and women believed strange things of the wonderful western world, and they listened eagerly and without question to things their great-grandchildren would scoff at.
He belittled the strength of his captors, and was inclined to scoffat their thunder-and-lightning tubes.
It is best," he says, "not to make scoff of such matters.
They may scoffat it, the wise ones, but it will come.
It was then that men began toscoff at him behind his back, though some spoke with sufficient backwoods bluntness to his face.
Imperialistic cynics were not lacking to scoff at our protestation that we were fighting Spain in order to liberate Cuba; and yet this, for the American people at large, was undoubtedly the inspiration of the war.
It was at a little town on the outskirts of the city where those who had come to scoff and jeer remained to listen.
He resigns his place, makes the sacrifice cheerfully, and goes to the East Side and preaches Christ and Him crucified every day and every night to little groups of half-civilized foreign paupers who scoff at him.
But these scoff at what they know nothing of, for what they know naturally as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
So now the way of Cain is, to rely on one's own works, and scoff at those works which are good and true, and circumvent and slay those who go in the right way, just as these very ones also are doing.
Therefore they curse and scoff at all Christian doctrine which they are ignorant of.
I may scoff or I may tremble, according as you shall answer me.
Is it to scoff at religion, or does it begin to make you tremble?
Then they who so wantonly flock To the rapture thy kiss can impart, Shall scoff at thy winter, and mock Thy beauty as wrecked as thy heart!
Mr. Sapling's inner feeling was that from now on he would simply scoff and scoff and scoff.
You have drained philosophy to the dregs, and scoff at everything.
Albeit, the Archbishop was highly offended at the scoff and bitter mock, as well as at the bold liberty of that learned man; yet durst he not hazard for that present to execute his malice conceived.
John Knox answered, "Albeit ye think that scoff proper, yet, as it is most untrue, so is it most improper.
Yet many people scoff at them for this loyalty to duty, and many will scoff at Mina Bahadur Rana and call him a crank.
There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said "Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
Sink her whom I adore in the estimation of the world; and render her the scoff of the foolish, the vain, and the malignant?
I should indeed have been the scoff of the very rabble, had I not taken vengeance for my wrongs!
Become thescoff of the tea-table, the bugbear of the bed-chamber, and the standing jest of the tavern?
For this reason, the divines of the age and those possessed of wealth, would scorn and scoff at these people.
To them He said: ‘Though ye scoff at us now, we will scoff at you hereafter even as ye scoff at us.
On the contrary, in every instance, He hath threatened with fire those that repudiate and scoff at the verses, as already shown.
Other folk call it the Puritan virus of over-righteousness, and scoff at it.
We may scoffat the social inequalities as much as we please, but we can't laugh them out of court.
Even old Pippo began to scoff at his miserable appearance, and hinted a hope, that before the season of the contraband begun Gerald would have taken his departure, or be able to make a more respectable figure.
It was the careless scoff of one who deemed that to such as me no sense of delicacy need be observed.
You scoff unseasonably, sir,' said the baronet, indignant at the tone he spoke in.
He would say no word of spray or pruning; he would scoff at the glory of apple blossoms as the rosy illusion of romance; and he would resolutely suppress all mention of--apples.
The penitents declared that Frank had taught his followers to scoff at chastity.
It became the fashion in neo-Chassidean circles to scoff at the Talmudists.
Why do you doctors scoff at miracles when the Bible is full of them and we all live among them?
Another generation may scoffat our too-much-worldliness, with our dreamless grind and visionless toil and harder creeds that reject everything which cannot be computed in the terms of traffic's dollar!
Let us not scoff too loudly at their mystic visions and religious rhapsodies!
The laugh and the scoff are the outward and visible signs of an inward and spiritual belief that the Londoner is the sole guardian and trustee of the English language.
