Sentences with word «circumlocution»

That Luke is dependent upon Mark, or the tradition which Mark is using, in Luke 22.69 is, we believe, to be argued from the way in which he maintains the Semitic circumlocution for God, «Power», while adding «of God» for the sake of his Gentile readers who may not understand the construction.

In certain peculiarities of expression, in the habit of sometimes speaking of God in circumlocutions, Jesus resembles the pious Jews, if our record is to be trusted on this point.

This extravagant circumlocution seems to be an elaborate way to avoid to the term «subject,» either because he did not wish to contrast it with «subjective aim,» or because he was uncertain just how the subject should now be conceived.

It is a well - known feature of Luke's editorial work that he follows his sources as closely as he can; to restrict himself to the explanatory addition rather than to remove the, to him, unnecessary Semitic circumlocution would be quite typical.

As a result, many of our statutes define, as we have noted, T in terms of «striking circumlocution».

Miller says, «The coming years will not be lacking in interest in this regard — which is a Vatican circumlocution for saying they will be exciting.»

Other epithets indeed were chosen which were based rather on reflection, and which expressed still more strongly the remoteness of God, His distance from the world: «Heaven,» «Magnificence,» «Majesty,» «Glory»; or in reverent awe circumlocutions were used: for example, not «God has determined,» but «it was determined.»

Even so, «their unity of subjective aim» would be an odd circumlocution, for how are the many feelings united by one conceptual feeling?

For still others such Germanic circumlocution is impossible to understand, let alone embrace; they will regard the resurrection in a rationalistic, relatively «old - fashioned» deist - liberal manner as a prescientific way of expressing the timeless content of Jesus» life and ministry — his preaching about the love of God and the need for human fellowship.

With one blow it pulverized the contradiction in that without circumlocutions it placed materialism on the throne again... One must oneself have experienced the liberating effects of this book to get an idea of it.

I was getting tired of this Celtic circumlocution.

Labour's deputy leader was guilty of a clumsy circumlocution, telling LBC radio on Monday that:

When Turner isn't flummoxing his listeners with floridly baroque circumlocutions, his characteristic grunt speaks even more eloquently as a wicked deflation of social hypocrisy and cant.

Now, seriously, I always try to be creative in my translations, whenever possible I use synonyms and circumlocutions a-plenty to avoid any repetition!

Rather than furthering one's comprehension of his practice, the reading was a performance that pushed the limits of endurance — of the performer and the audience — and operated beneath a veneer of theoretical circumlocution that obfuscated its lack of substance.

For this reason, instead of engaging in circumlocution and saying nothing, a rejoinder where absolutely necessary should provide superior information that effectively counters the original article.

Questions as to whether the dozen or so photographs exhibited are the final phase of Nayar's latest project or merely documentation of her process come off a ponderous circumlocution that detracts from the dynamic effect of the images themselves.

This could be done either directly or by circumlocution, depending on the susceptibility of the scribe concerned.

He will be troubled by the uneasy reticence, the circumlocutions, the sense of strain.

Because if you're wasting your thoughts and my time on a circumlocution on what gold is really «worth», you'd better be the latter.

Because if you're wasting your thoughts and my time on a circumlocution about what gold is really «worth», you'd better be the latter.

These are circumlocutions that really take the long way around.

What's more, the bishops adopt the circumlocutions of the Canadian government, which instituted the new suicide regime, along with the antinomian clichés of the current pontificate.

And by now he had in any case learnt to cut down a little on the circumlocutions The letter, dated 22 September 1512, was addressed to: «The reverend, venerable and godly fathers, to the Prior, the Master, and the seniors of the monastery of the Order of the Eremites of Bishop St Augustine in Erfurt, my fathers, honoured in the Lord.

3:5, 7, 9) and as a circumlocution for «I», the evangelist, but the most natural interpretation is to take it as referring to the same person who has seen.

In questionnaires that ask if one is Christian, Jew, Hindu, or whatever, I employ no circumlocution.

This is suggested by the passive now found in Luke 12.9; it would also be an Aramaism (the passive voice as a circumlocution for the divine activity), and it would provide a basis from which the «I» and «Son of man» forms could have developed in the tradition, as variant ways of giving Jesus a role in the judgement.

7.13 found in Mark 14.62 and the same combination found in the pre-Lukan formulation of Acts 7.56 can not be dependent upon one another, since the one, Mark with the circumlocution, reflects a Jewish way of thinking, and the other, Acts with the direct mention of God, reflects a non-Jewish way of thinking.

This passive was a circumlocution for the activity of God, as is regularly the case in Aramaic.