Sentence examples for text purports from inspiring English sources

The novel, which takes its title from St. Augustine's classic text, purports to be the journal of a writer named Everett.

The biblical text purports to relate a real vision experienced by an otherwise unknown Jew named John — not the Apostle John, nor the same person as the anonymous author of what we call the Gospel of John.

The text purports to be the minutes of the secret meetings of a cabal of Jewish masterminds, which has co-opted Freemasonry and is plotting to rule the world on behalf of all Jews because they believe themselves to be the chosen people of God.

He'd been summoned thither by a text purporting to be from sexually frustrated Caroline.

It was after the failed revolution there in 1905 that The Protocols of the Elders of the Zion, a fraudulent text purporting to reveal a Jewish-Masonic plot for world domination, began to gain circulation.

Yang's teachings seemed to Mencius to sit on the opposite end of the spectrum from Mohism (there is no surviving text purporting to articulate and defend Yangism).

Mencius, in the text purporting to be a record of his teachings, explicitly sets himself to the task of defending Confucianism not only against Mohism but the teachings of Yang Zhu.

Photius, writing in the 9th century, found various text appended to manuscripts of the seven canonical books, which lead Daniel Heinsius to suggest that the original eighth book is lost, and he identified the text purported to be from the eighth book as fragments of the Hypopotoses.

It was the last her friend would hear from her, although she would receive odd texts purporting to be from her two hours later.

Voters in a race in Virginia received robo-texts purporting to be from "concerned parents", saying that a candidate had voted to allow schools to conceal children's disciplinary records.

In the week before its release, a number of texts purporting to be genuine leaks appeared in various forms.