Sentences with phrase «hang upon every word»
The «War on Christmas» exists only in the minds of conservative pundits and those who hang upon their words.
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(A point which I have attempted to argue in The Gospel of the Kingdom [1940]-RRB- Their interests are very largely centered upon the apostles, but at the same time the surviving tradition within them makes it clear that Jesus» influence upon the populace of Galilee resulted in «multitudes» following him about and hanging upon his words.
The chief priests and scribes and the principal men of the people sought to destroy him; but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people hung upon his words.»
Not exact matches
Let me leave the last word to that master of double meaning, the poet and preacher John Donne, who concluded his final sermon with this sentence: «There we leave you in that blessed dependency, to hang upon him that hangs upon the cross.»
Seventhly, the three hours during which He hung upon the cross, that is, from the sixth to the ninth hour, are represented; in signification of which we make once more a triple sign of the cross at the words, Through Him, and with Him, and in Him.