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Holy Scripture

noun

The sacred writings of the Christian religions. Synonyms: Bible, Book, Christian Bible, Good Book, Holy Writ, Scripture, Word, Word of God.

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... our law or our faith—against reason or the holy Scripture? For my part, I find nothing in the sacred Bible that is against it. But tell me, if it had been the will of God, would you say that he could not do it? Ha, for favour sake, I beseech you, never emberlucock or inpulregafize your spirits with these vain thoughts and idle conceits; ...

— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais

... tell you," said the parson; "a tooth, or a finger, or hair clippings is not enough to read the burial service over. Anyhow, there ought to be so much remaining that one can see that a soul has been in it. But to read Holy Scripture over a toe or two in a sea-boot! Oh, ...

— Weird Tales from Northern Seas • Jonas Lie

... evidence to satisfy them about the Revelation of John, they expressed their opinion, and the grounds of it, for the information of the world.[66] Into these reasons we will hereafter inquire, for our faith in Holy Scripture does not rest on their canons. We are not now asking what they thought, but what they did; and we find that they did criticise certain books, reported to be written by the apostles of Jesus Christ some three hundred years before, approve some, and reject others as spurious, ...

— Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith - Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity • Robert Patterson

... him in holy Scripture read, Who hailed him thus, the monarch said, Upraising from his sleep his head: "Go, Rama, hither lead as thou Wast ordered by the queen but now. Come, tell me why my mandate laid Upon thee thus is disobeyed. Away! ...

— The Ramayana • VALMIKI

... weak and vacillating. The great need was for solidity and steadfastness, as it is in the present day, for it is only when the heart is established by grace and in holiness that it can in any true sense serve God. This emphasis on a fixed or stablished heart is brought before us several times in Holy Scripture (cf. Ps. lvii. 7, cviii. 1, cxii. 7; Heb. ...

— The Prayers of St. Paul • W. H. Griffith Thomas

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