Not exact matches
Much
biblical language is refined and elevated, and while many Englishmen were doubtless delighted to discover Pharaoh had a proper butler, the KJV
often sounded artificial and abstruse to them because the translators frequently followed
biblical idiom and syntax and not the
language and idiom of their contemporaries.
For the over-all result of the great reaction has been a sophistication of the true simplicity of the gospel, the use of a jargon which the common man (and the intelligent one, too,
often enough) can not understand, and a tendency to assume that the
biblical and creedal
language as it stands need only be spoken, and enough then has been done to state and communicate the point of the Christian proclamation.
Jefferson, unlike Lincoln, did not
often resort to
biblical language, but the injustice of slavery called it forth in him.
Simple reassertions of
biblical language by themselves have
often proved inadequate.
Those who have had basic courses in the
biblical languages and are willing to devote 20 minutes a day to such
language study should gain enough
language ability to base their sermon text study on the original text, and they should have enough linguistic skill to use the best of the great philological commentaries, which
often cite words from the original
languages.
Liturgical innovation and church school curricula have
often abandoned
biblical language and instruction in counterproductive attempts at relevancy.
First of all, responsible liturgical revision can not consist only in the use of more contemporary
language or in the avoidance of what are known as «sexist» phrases (which are so dominantly masculine that women
often feel excluded from what is going on) or in a return to
biblical idiom to replace other (perhaps medieval) terminology.
Often he used
biblical language, also that of the early Church and of the medieval schools.
``... The rhetoric of «worldliness,» like other
biblical language, is
often misused.
Catholics have not used the
language of primordiurn much because they see
biblical history within the tradition and the tradition within history, but the conservatives are
often primitive in their views about origins of episcopacy and papacy, and contemporary moderates
often try to settle things by going back to
biblical accounts of early ministry and communal life.