Sentences with phrase «biblical phrase from»

Now that this capital is almost exhausted, one wonders, to borrow a favorite biblical phrase from the Puritan preachers, if the «day of trouble» may be close at hand.

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The purpose of my project was to unpack and explore the phrase «biblical womanhood» — mostly because, as a woman, the Bible's instructions and stories regarding womanhood have always intrigued me, but also because the phrase «biblical womanhood» is often invoked in the conservative evangelical culture to explain why women should be discouraged from working outside the home and forbidden from assuming leadership positions in the church.

«Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely» is not a biblical phrase, but it arises from a biblical understanding of human sinfulness.

And so part of the reason for exploring everything from Leviticus 18, to Proverbs 31, to Song of Solomon, to the epistles of Peter and Paul, was to show just how much this phrase — «biblical womanhood» — really entails, and to not take the hermeneutical devices with which Christians are so familiar for granted.

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.

In fact, the very phrase «law written on the heart» is biblical; it comes from the New Testament book of Romans.

Hence with His own statements, so far as they are His own, such a «proportionate interpretation», in a fine phrase from Bishop Westcott, is required quite as much as it is required for other pieces of biblical teaching.