Sentence examples for text of scripture from inspiring English sources

Premodern Islamic commentaries on the Qurʾān examine the text of scripture in the light of the full panoply of scholarly disciplines that characterize medieval Islamic culture.

A visitor exaggerated when he reported that New Englanders could "neither drive a bargain, nor make a jest, without a text of Scripture at the end on it," but he was not far off.

Deity isn't palpable; it's not indisputably there in the world of this poem, and all we have is the Father's voice, his pronouncements, or in other words all we have is a text just like the text of scripture – or in fact, it is the text of scripture.

There is, first, Qurʾānic exegesis in the narrow sense, consisting of dedicated commentaries that treat the text of scripture in its canonical order, either verse by verse or section by section.

First and foremost, he was an exegete (critical interpreter), as determined to establish the text of scripture scientifically (compare his Hexapla) as to wrest its spiritual import from it.

At First Principles 4.2.4, Origen asserts that the body, the soul and the spirit in the human reader find their respective analogues in the text of scripture.

What keeps the fear at bay is texts of scripture.

Additionally, the Latin Vulgate Bible was reaffirmed against Protestant insistence upon the original Hebrew and Greek texts of Scripture.

Many of his letters are tracts on exegetical problems, and he wrote homilies to monks under his direction on texts of Scripture.

His father had a butcher shop during the Depression, and later sold it to make straps for tefillin, the small leather boxes containing four texts of Scripture worn by Jews during morning prayers on all days except the Sabbath.

He feels "a clogging and a heat at my breast-bone as if my bowels would have burst out"; a preacher's call to abandon the sin of idle pastimes "did benumb the sinews of my best delights"; and he can say of one of the texts of scripture that seemed to him to spell his damnation that it "stood like a mill-post at my back".