While studying at the seminary in Andover, Adoniram had been working on a New Testament translation from the original Greek.

Born a Congregationalist, he had been baptized as a tiny baby in the usual manner by having a few drops of water sprinkled on his head, yet nowhere in the whole of the New Testament could he find a description of anybody being baptized by sprinkling.

Perhaps the most powerful and most frequently recurring literary influence on the Western world has been that of the Old and New Testament.

The 350th anniversary of the King James Bible is being celebrated simultaneously with the publishing today of the New Testament, the first part of the New English Bible, undertaken as a new translation of the Scriptures into contemporary English.

The New English Bible ( the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a future date ) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered `` simply as the Bible to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship ''.

The New Testament offered to the public today is the first result of the work of a joint committee made up of representatives of the Church of England, Church of Scotland, Methodist Church, Congregational Union, Baptist Union, Presbyterian Church of England, Churches in Wales, Churches in Ireland, Society of Friends, British and Foreign Bible Society and National Society of Scotland.

Prof. C. H. Dodd, 76, a Congregational minister and a leading authority on the New Testament, is general director of the project and chairman of the New Testament panel.

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.

It was not even in writing Latin epigrams, sometimes bawdy ones, or in translating Lucian from Greek into Latin or in defending the study of Greek against the attack of conservative academics, or in attacking the conservative theologians who opposed Erasmus's philological study of the New Testament.

How far the fellowship in most local churches falls below what the New Testament means by koinonia!!

There is a vast difference between the community of reconciliation which the New Testament describes and the community of congeniality found in the average church building.

Yet the truth, according to the New Testament, is that every local church has its existence only by being the embodiment of the whole church in that particular place.

`` The scriptures, both Old and New Testament, are verbally inspired of God and are the revelation of God to man, the infallible, authoritative rule of faith and conduct ''.

The apostle Paul said the same thing in the language and faith of the New Testament: `` He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him freely give us all things??

The New Testament has God declaring himself to be the " Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

Schweitzer found many New Testament references to apparently show that 1st-century Christians believed literally in the imminent fulfillment of the promise of the World's ending, within the lifetime of Jesus's original followers, He noted that in the gospel of Mark, Jesus speaks of a " tribulation ", with his coming in the clouds with great power and glory " ( St Mark ), and states when it will happen: " This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled " ( St Matthew, 24: 34 ) ( or, " have taken place " ( Luke 21: 32 )): " All these things shall come upon this generation " ( Matthew 23: 36 ).

The publication of The Quest of the Historical Jesus, effectively put a stop for decades to work on the Historical Jesus as a sub-discipline of New Testament studies.

Schweitzer established his reputation further as a New Testament scholar with other theological studies including The Psychiatric Study of Jesus ( 1911 ); and his two studies of the apostle Paul, Paul and his Interpreters, and the more complete The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle ( 1930 ).

This examined the eschatological beliefs of Paul and ( through this ) the message of the New Testament.

No other New Testament account includes this event.

Though the New Zealand leg of the tour did not take long in comparison to the number of Australian games, the British and Irish experienced considerable difficulty across the Tasman after white-washing the Australians.

In comparison, his adulthood, especially the week before his death, is well documented in the Gospels contained within the New Testament.

For comparison, London shipped 18, 727, 230 tons ( 16 billion kg ), and New York shipped 20, 390, 953 tons ( 18 billion kg ).

Finally, a recent cost comparison with reformatting options per volume yielded $ 125 for microfilming, $ 50 for scanning and minimal indexing, and, based on a New York Public Library project, $ 16. 20 for deacidification.

The most notable difference, according to Dana F. Sutton is that New Comedy, in comparison to Old Comedy, is “ devoid of a serious political, social or intellectual content ” and “ could be performed in any number of social and political settings without risk of giving offense ”.

By the end of the season, Short had issued an ultimatum: unless someone was willing to buy the Senators for $ 12 million ( in comparison, the New York Yankees were sold in 1973 for $ 8. 8 million ), he would not proceed to renew the stadium lease and move the team elsewhere.

Owing to the latitude near the Tropic of Cancer, the permanent snow line is among the highest in the world at typically around-for comparison, equatorial mountains in New Guinea and the Rwenzoris have a snow line some lower.

Further information will be available after the completion of the BSL corpus is completed and allows for comparison with the Auslan corpus and the Sociolinguistic Variation in New Zealand Sign Language project.

The General Sherman of California has a volume of 1, 489 cubic meters ; by way of comparison, the largest giant sequoias in Great Britain have volumes no greater than 90-100 cubic meters, one example being the 90-cubic-meter specimen in the New Forest.

It consisted of an enormous metropolis ( an ecumenopolis ) that stretched deep underground, and was home to a population of 45, 000, 000, 000 ( 45 billion ) human inhabitants at its height ( although the Second Foundation mentions a figure ten times that of administrators alone ), a population density of 232 per km² ( 600 per mile², in comparison, New York City in real life possesses an estimated 27, 147. 4 people per mile² ).

The title poem portrays the Jewish community of Hester Street New York, and deals with the effects of capitalism, gender conflict and conflicts between generations on this immigrant community in ways that bear comparison to the works of Charles Reznikoff.

For comparison, Yavapai County has about 93 % of the area of the U. S. state of New Jersey.

The advent of high-quality color videotape recorders and portable video cameras coincided with the DIY ethos of the New Wave era, enabling many pop acts to produce promotional videos quickly and cheaply, in comparison to the relatively high costs of using film.

For comparison Lowell is rated safer than Boston ( 104 of 393 ), Providence RI ( 123 ), Springfield ( 51 ), Lynn ( 120 ), Fall River ( 103 ), and New Bedford ( 85 ), but rated more dangerous than Cambridge ( 303 ), Newton ( 388 ), Quincy ( 312 ), and Worcester ( 175 ).

Based on the data from 1997 when the population of Ramsey was 14, 429, Ramsey had the following number of business establishments in total, and per 100, 000 of population in comparison to the New Jersey state average.

The Silver Creek Central School District has been recognized by Business First as the number-one school district in western New York, as shown by a comparison of academic outcomes and socioeconomic conditions for two years in a row.

By comparison, the western end of the town remained very rural, with the only centers of population being located at Greene and Summit, both being established as railroad stations on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.

By comparison, in the only other states or territories in Australia with unincorporated areas, only 0. 02 % of the population of New South Wales, 0. 002 % of Victoria's population and 0. 6 % of the population of South Australia, live in unincorporated areas.

The New Testament parables are thought by scholars such as John P. Meier to have been inspired by mashalim, a form of Hebrew comparison.

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" Ned Raggett of Allmusic describes it as surf-inspired power pop with a New Wave edge: " Not quite Devo if they grew up on the coast, but there's something to that comparison.

Orographic precipitation is well known on oceanic islands, such as the Hawaiian Islands or New Zealand, where much of the rainfall received on an island is on the windward side, and the leeward side tends to be quite dry, almost desert-like, by comparison.

Smaller wagons have declined in popularity, in comparison with Europe, although they have traditionally been more popular in New Zealand than in Australia.

In comparison to Australian Riesling, New Zealand produces lighter and more delicate wines that range from sweet to dry.