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Evangel

noun
1.
The four books in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings.  Synonyms: Gospel, Gospels.



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"Evangel" Quotes from Famous Books



... garden trees Slow pacing, with a dream like tread, The solemn thoughted Plato said; Nor Lack I tokens, great or small, Of God's clear light in each and all, While holding with more dear regard Than scroll of heathen seer and bard The starry pages, promise lit, With Christ's evangel overwrit, Thy miracle of life and death, O Holy ...
— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger
... the subject of vehement and contradictory judgments. His friends have well-nigh canonized him as representing the highest type of public virtue; his foes have painted him as an adept in craft and intrigue. His partisans have held him up as the evangel of a new and purer dispensation; his opponents declare that his ability is marred by selfishness and characterized by cunning. His followers have exalted him as the ablest and most high-minded statesman of the times; his critics have ...
— Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine
... or ours the solemn angel Hath evil wrought; The funeral anthem is a glad evangel— The ...
— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various
... breed Saint Martin's summer in the mind, They feel this last evangel plead, As did the first, apart from creed, ...
— John Marr and Other Poems • Herman Melville


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