We have italicized the passage which we wish to make the subject of our inquiry, for, unless we are mistaken, two instances may be pointed out in which the texts in question have been garbled or seriously tampered with.
If you produce texts about "one offering," or any others of the sort, he has still a thrust to deliver that it is hard to parry.
Other tenets they have borrowed from Islam; for they regard Mohammed as a prophet, and Mecca as a holy place; and texts from the Koran are engraved on the walls of their temple.
Some of the texts of Scripture upon this subject are, as you observe, indeed strong; but they may admit of a mitigated interpretation.
In many ancient texts a fourth verb is given, which the Authorised Version renders "settle.
In some texts the last three words are not represented, nor are they found in our Authorised Version.
The verb in the besttexts expresses far more than that which is rendered in the Authorised Version, "I will not be negligent.
The longest of these texts is a poem in hexameter, consisting of thirteen lines, of which the eleventh is taken from Homer,[57] and the whole is a Homeric imitation.
Greek texts of this age also occur at Gerasa and elsewhere side by side with Latin inscriptions.
The Nabathean or North Arab texts of the Hauran range from 200 B.
Some seven hundred of these South Arab texts are now known, and in 1877 their relation to the alphabet of South Arabia was demonstrated by Halevy.
Such textsshould be found in Moab, and Sir Charles Warren obtained a copy of one said to exist farther south.
The ruins among which these texts were found include a city (probably the Biblical Hammon) and a temple.
Here I copied many texts and pictures; and outside the gate there is a wall of rock eighty feet in length, once covered with very large figures, like those which I have seen on the outer walls of Italian churches.
My experience in respect to a very large number of ancient texts which I have copied is that the letters are generally better preserved than the surface.
New hieroglyphic texts may be expected from Northern Syria, and the Siloam inscription cannot be unique.
They are all so kind to us there, and teach us such beautiful verses and texts about God and our Saviour.
In the meantime, I lay down and looked at all the texts the young ones had brought to me, as was their custom before the Sunday dinner, and which on this day they had chosen for themselves.
I care nothing for any texts of Scripture, even though you should bring forward many more against me; for I have the Lord and Master of Scripture on my side,” etc.
It is thus that he expresses himself concerning the argument which the lawyers had, as a matter of fact, drawn almost exclusively from canon law, the texts of which they misread.
To show that he meant it all in deadly earnest, he adduced texts from Scripture which might prove how “well-grounded” was his interpretation.
As regards the latter assertion the texts to be adduced will afford a better opportunity of judging.
But in the case of textsfrom the Percy Folio, where the labour is rather to decipher than to transcribe accurately, I have resorted not only to the reprint of Hales and Furnivall, but to the Folio itself.
The texts were, of course, chopped about and pruned to suit contemporary taste.
Many of his most interesting texts were printed for the first time from manuscripts in private hands.
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Whole texts of the Bible are said to have been inscribed on the edges of gowns and petticoats.
Illustration: Polly Coggeshall's Sampler] In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries it was high fashion to have mottoes and texts carved or painted on many articles where they would frequently catch the eye.
I have heard this and similar texts ingeniously explained away and brushed from the path of the aspiring Christian by the tender Greatheart of the parish.
Several of the texts of the Gospel histories were quoted with great plausibility by the Gnostics in support of their doctrine.
In the Pali and Sanscrit texts the word Buddha is always used as a title, not as a name.
Torrance was got some way into his first exposition, positing a deep layer of texts as he went along, laying the foundations of his discourse, which was to deal with a nice point in divinity, before Archie suffered his eyes to wander.
Awe at last stole over him as he rode slowly along the quiet lanes, with his hat slouched low over his face; and he was conscious of a deeper meaning in his favorite texts of Scripture than he had hitherto felt.
He found pleasure in thinking of all the texts in which the word occurs, in looking for them, and considering which was the most biting.
He thought that a statement of facts would have more effect on his father than all his eloquence, or all the texts of the Bible, every one of which his father knew as well as he did.
I always thought the Bible-teaching about it consisted of such texts as ‘lie not one to another’?
Every text referred to should be searched out, as these textscontain the essential facts of this book.
At first such an explanation sounds hazardous; but a thousand texts and references confirm it; and it is only by the accumulation of evidence in these cases that the student becomes convinced of a theory's correctness.
Brussels, 1899) gives a great number of texts and epitaphs of the same character as that above-quoted, and they are well worth studying by those interested in the subject.
The determination of texts requires not only effort but also psychological knowledge and the capacity of putting one's self in the place of him who has committed the error.
Gross's erudition is so stupendous that it reaches far out into texts where no ordinary reader would be able or willing to follow him, and the book suffers no loss from the excision.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "texts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
