Will, also called testament, legal means by which an owner of property disposes of his assets in the event of his death.
The word "scandal" derives from the Greek skándalon, originally having the meaning of "trap" but coming in the New Testament to mean "cause of offense," and translated in the King James Version as "stumblingblock," as in St . Pauls first letter to the Corinthians: "But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness".
In the Protestantism of my childhood, the Bible, especially the New Testament, was meant to be read, but reverentially.
Protestants generally read the New Testament to mean that James was the son of Joseph and Mary; in this case, Mary presumably gave birth to Jesus as a virgin and then had James and other children.
The most common purpose has been discovering the truths and values of the Old and New Testaments by means of various techniques and principles, though very often, owing to the exigencies of certain historical conditions, polemical or apologetical situations anticipate the truth or value to be discovered and thus dictate the type of exegesis or hermeneutic to be used.
It's such a sad testament, I mean, this whole society we live in--you're nobody if you're not a star.
(Substantial in the context, one assumes given the selection of The Testament of Mary, means formally and intellectually, not physical size or word count).
Sticking to his guns, today was testament that Berman means business.
It's a testament and it means that you can have a life-long career playing this type of music if you do it right.
And for Amy Elkins, a young artist based in Los Angeles, those testaments offered a means to humanise the grim statistics of the death penalty in the United States.
