In general, the New Testament writers quote from the Septuagint (" LXX ") version of the Hebrew Bible, as it was then in common use among Gentiles, both Roman and Greek, while Jews of the time spoke mainly Aramaic and Hebrew, and would either have read the Hebrew Bible in its original Hebrew, or in an Aramaic translation.

There has been some debate over the details of his life, which the following quote from the entry " Bible, English " in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica illustrates:

After the meal he would reportedly begin to chant, and placing his hand upon his forehead, would ask those present to quote any verse from the Bible.

She returned at the program's conclusion to offer a brief passage from the Bible or a famous quote that reflected upon the evening's story.

It is a quote from the Old Testament of the Bible, Psalm 111, verse 10.

She usually quotes something of Shakespeare ( sometimes attributing the quote to the wrong play ) or the Bible.

Apap has drawn particular attention to a passage of the Appeal in which Walker encourages blacks to “ ever make an attempt to gain freedom or natural right, from under our cruel oppressors and murderers, until you see your ways clear ; when that hour arrives and you move, be not afraid or dismayed .” Apap has interpreted Walker ’ s words as a play on the Biblical injunction to “ be not afraid or dismayed .” As he points out, “‘ be not afraid or dismayed ’ is a direct quote from 2 Chronicles 20. 15, where the Israelites are told to ‘ be not afraid or dismayed ’ because God would fight the battle for them and save them from their enemies without their having to lift a finger .” In the Bible, all the Israelites are expected to do is pray, but Walker asserts that the black community must " move.

* The granite slab at the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean, which is a World War II War Memorial, which remembers ex-cadets who died on military service, includes the Bible 2 Timothy 4: 6 – 8 ( King James Version ) quote,

Kac's first transgenic artwork, titled " Genesis "' involved him taking a quote from the Bible ( Genesis 1: 26-" And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth "), transferring it into Morse code, and finally, translating that Morse code ( by a conversion principle specially developed by the artist for this work ) into the base pairs of genetics.

Kac intended to present the viewer with a philosophical problem, a dichotomy: If the viewer disagrees with allowing man to have dominion over nature as the quote from the Bible suggests, then in order to destroy the idea ( i. e. activate the UV light which causes mutation in the genes, thereby altering the statement ), he must assert his own power over nature, thereby in a way contradicting himself.

Continuous pesharim take a book of the Hebrew Bible, often from the prophets, such as those of Habakkuk, Nahum, or from the Psalms, quote it phrase by phrase, and after each quotation insert an interpretation.

They quote from the Bible, or appeal to the Trinity, or to Jesus, or to saints.

The portion of the episode where characters quote the Bible in support or opposition of clowning were carefully researched.

Klein regarded himself as a shrewd and tenacious businessman, exampled by him having a modified Bible quote on his desk, reading: " Though I walk in the shadow of the valley of evil, I have no fear, as I am the biggest bastard in the valley.

Although Stott was not scheduled to speak, he used his position as chairman of the meeting to rebuke Lloyd-Jones publicly, stating that his opinion was against history and the Bible ( though John Stott greatly admired Lloyd-Jones's work and would often quote him in Stott's own books ).

Espejo argued that the people of Quito were accustomed to adulation and that they admired any preacher who could quote the Bible in a pompous and insubstantial way.

Though, this quote is taken from an article where Wise opened stating, " It is evident that Moses was opposed to slavery ..." The article itself, entitled On the Provisional Portion of the Mosaic Code, with Special Reference to Polygamy and Slavery defends the Mosaic form of slavery as found in the Hebrew Bible while at the same time offering certain criticisms.

Sarah precedes the following quote with the comment that all translations are corrupt and the only inspired versions of the Bible are in the original languages.

The title may spring from the Bible quote " In my Father's house are many mansions " ( John 14: 2 ), implying the pristine forest is a natural and sacred cathedral.

His texts quote extensively from the Bible and so are useful as sources for the Vetus Latina.

As types of local martyrologies we may quote that of Rome, formed from the Depositio martyrum and the Depositio episcoporum of the chronograph of 354 ; the Gothic calendar of IJililas Bible, the calendar of Carthage published by Mabillon, the calendar of fasts and vigils of the Church of Tours, going back as far as Bishop Perpetuus ( d. 490 ), and preserved in the Historia Francorum ( xi.

The track, “ Starless and Bible Black ”, a quote from the opening monologue, is probably the best demonstration of Wellins ' lyricism and the highlight of Tracey ’ s whole career.

At a recent meeting of the Women's Association of the Trumbull Ave. United Presbyterian Church, considerable use was made of material from The Detroit News on the King James version of the New Testament versus the New English Bible.

Its ground for this recommendation was that, while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17, 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ), that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching, the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was no longer doing so and, on the contrary, had relinquished both his Pioneer and Bible Student Servant positions.

Hands on Bible, seaman Lodley and carpenter Staffe swore that Juet had tried to persuade them to keep muskets and swords in their cabins.

The council agreed it should more firmly state its belief in and dependence on the Bible.

Incurably optimistic, dogmatic, and utterly fearless, in his youth a devout Baptist, in spite of his friendship for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1807-1892 ) he eventually attacked the orthodox churches for what he deemed their cowardly compromising on the slavery issue and in his invariably ardent manner was emphatically unorthodox and denied the plenary inspiration of the Bible.

He wrote a considerable number of works on the Bible and religious subjects generally.

Furthermore, they claim that in the Bible there's no evidence showing that the office must be conveyed by laying on of hands and no Biblical command that it must be by a special class of bishops ( the laying on of hands is repeatedly used to give a commission to some person in scripture.

Between 1220 and 1227, he wrote a Glossa in quatuor libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi ( A Gloss on the Four Books of the Sentences of Peter Lombard ), which was particularly important because it was the first time that a book other than the Bible was used as a textbook during biblical study.

He plied Origen with questions, and urged him to write his Commentaries () on the books of the Bible, and, as a wealthy nobleman and courtier, he provided his teacher with books for his studies and secretaries to lighten the labor of composition.

Whether seen as a pagan work with “ Christian coloring ” added by scribes or as a “ Christian historical novel, with selected bits of paganism deliberately laid on as ' local color ', as Margaret E. Goldsmith did in “ The Christian Theme of Beowulf ,” it cannot be denied that Christianity pervades the text, and with that, the use of the Bible as a source.

The Bible can fall into both the category of ecclesiastical sources and also this category, as the Beowulf poet would have relied on Old English translations.

* Richard J. Coggins, 1 and 2 Chronicles in Dunn, James D. G., Rogerson, John William ( eds ), " Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible " ( Eerdmans, 2003 )

The following is from Margaret Barker's commentary on Isaiah in Eerdman's Commentary on the Bible

A Plague Inflicted on Israel While Eating the Quail ( illustration from the 1728 Figures de la Bible )

There is no biographical information on the prophet Habakkuk ; in fact less is known about him than any other writer of the Bible.

1: 13 You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he, ( World English Bible )

The " Jerusalem Chamber ” is a replica of the room in Westminster Abbey in which work on the King James Version of the Bible was conducted, and it displays a collection of rare Bibles.

" In 1982 BJU's then-president Bob Jones III, during interviews in which he defended the school's tax-exempt status, cited nine passages from the Bible-drawn both from the Old and New Testaments-which he claimed demonstrated that God intended races to be segregated: " The Bible clearly teaches, starting in the 10th chapter of Genesis and going all the way through, that God has put differences among people on the earth to keep the earth divided ", he said, adding that inter-racial marriage was " playing into the hands of the antichrist and the one-world system.

At that time, survivor Clive Doyle was living at the Mount Carmel Center with supporter Ron Goins, operating a small visitor museum as well as holding weekly Bible studies on the Sabbath.

The general pattern of Bible reading in 1549 was retained ( as it was in 1559 ) except that distinct Old and New Testament readings were now specified for Morning and Evening Prayer on certain feast days.

Though there are many important differences of interpretation and opinion of the Bible on which Christianity is based, Christians share a set of beliefs that they hold as essential to their faith.

In the second century Christianity was criticized by the Jews on a various grounds, e. g. that the prophecies of the Hebrew Bible could not have been fulfilled by Jesus, given that he did not have a successful life.

** Jewish commentaries on the Bible