Sentences with phrase «biblical reference before»

Not exact matches

Some defy my taxonomic skills, either because they're on the borderline (PLAN AHEAD — IT WAS NOT RAINING WHEN NOAH BUILT THE ARK has a biblical reference but no necessary spiritual meaning) or because they're incomprehensible: What does CHECK UP BEFORE YOU CHECK OUT mean?

In fact, say biblical experts, these terms and concepts were already familiar to residents of the Roman Empire who knew them as references to the authority and divinity of the emperors, beginning notably with Caesar Augustus before the dawn of the first century.