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...Martin Luther goes through the seven sacraments of the medieval Catholic Church with his interpretation of the Bible. He teaches his opinions on the different pratices taken place within the Catholic Church and what they should or do represent. The book is seemingly set in an "angry tone" as this was the first time he accused the po...

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... upon biblical principles and shows thorough insight into the meaning of the Bible. At the same time it shows thorough acquaintance with the position... ...ntences. Also, there is more frequent paragraphing. The quotations from the Bible have been changed to the Revised Standard Version, except in the f... ...ohn 6:29]. But we’ll have to give him credit: this Leipzig professor of the Bible can prove anything he pleases from any passage of Scripture he ple... ... 89 Cf. p. 19 n. 33. 90 Commentators on Peter Lombard’s textbook. Cf. p. 29 n. 60. 91 Cf. p. 37... ...riter against the heretics, translator of an important Latin version of the Bible, was also the author of many letters—to one of which Luther is refe... ...he Sentences” 117 in his fourth book; better yet, despise him with all his commentators, who at their best write only of the “matter” and “form” 11...

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...nd purpose, to stir up, and even to oblige the priests to shake off the dust from their Bibles, inviting them to a new study and examination, a new a... ... 1 Part I. -144- present to put my thoughts to silence; and for that end opened the Bible, which was the book that lay nearest my hand, and cast... ...as encreased by time to such an excess, that we may say without exaggeration those very commentators have made it inaccessible, and in some respects ... ...ible to those who in good earnest, and with the best intention desire to study it. The commentators, to speak generally, certainly do not enter into... ... Scripture itself. This which I read with my eyes, I said, taking into my hand the holy Bible, is certain, and of faith divine. God himself is he wh... ...and sometimes very adverse from that which is clearly and expressly told me in the holy Bible. Finding then between God and man, between God who spea... ...estion, with all our heart take up this defiance, and enter to the disputation with the Bible in our hands. But before opening it, I ask of them the ... ...times it hath made me quit the subject entirely. Continually encountering as I read the commentators, especially upon the Prophecies, and the Psalms... ...it, not only those whom you have just cited but innumerable doctors of every class. The commentators treat it, or to speak more correctly, touch it ...

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...hich extend from them, or of their conducts, which is the language of the Bible, or by secular teachings or by people, which is the language of Kabb... ...UTh Four languages are used in the wisdom of truth: 1. The language of the Bible, its names, and appellations. 2. The language of laws. This language ... ... The language of laws. This language is very close to the language of the Bible. 3. The language of legends, which is very far from the Bible, since ... ...bet was formed with the twenty-two letters before us. ThE lAngUA gE of ThE biblE The language of the bible is the primary, rudimentary language, perfe... ..., the language of prayers and blessings is taken from the language of the Bible. 3 8 K a b b a l a h f o r T h e s T u d e n T Th... ... then the Ari and Rav Chaim Vital themselves and the genuine authors, the commentators on their words, could have disclosed and explain the matters ...

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...ed by CDs containing the great books of the East and the West. I read the Bible and the Koran several times. I read Aristotle and Plato, Shakespeare... ...see it as a priest, the most informed approach to morality comes from the Bible, the learned church scholars and the considered opinions of the pope.... ...nsider alternative theories of the origin of the universe when we have the Bible? Why consider us to be animals when we then may be forced to drop t... ...e they are the inspired word of God! So we have a circular argument. ―The Bible says God exists, and God wrote the Bible.‖ Anyone with any expertise... ... ―There is some historical evidence that verifies some events in the Bible. There are the foundations said to be of Solomon‘s Temple. There are... ...ble conclusions that one may make when wrestling with the Scriptures, the commentators on the Scriptures, and the comments on 369 the commentato... ...t you want to do as an individual or as a society. Then there are usually commentators on both sides of most issues. But some are commenting from a ... ...ve future citizens? ―People often think that only scriptures or commentators on the scriptures can give us 376 ethics or morals. But p... ...their faith requires. But the so-called scholars, or perhaps we should say commentators, often disagree. One says that withholding insulin is accepta...

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... multiply, but our traditions have sanctified large families. ―The commentators in our religion have not had the divisive effects that have a... ...s such as animism, witchcraft and other means of magic. The Koran and its commentators speak of good and bad jinns. The Jews and Christians have thei... ...ck then, but in 2008 the Pope said that evolution was compatible with the Bible.‖ —―But the Pope wouldn‘t offer a posthumous apology to Darwin... ...for a dead man? And Lee, this idea of evolution being compatible with the Bible goes back at least as far as Pope Pius XII in 1950 and it was reaffi... .... Lee I am sure you know that the Catholic Church doesn‘t always read the Bible literally, like many evangelicals do. We accept what you might call ... ...eation story, must God accept that too? After all, He is the author of the Bible. So can God simultaneously accept contradictions as both being true?... ...only Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Mao. If people read Rousseau, the Gita, the Bible, and Jefferson they would be more likely to criticize socialistic to...

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...reates. He does this even when he must risk his life, if necessary. The Bible is another book of wisdom, and it tells about a man named Job who u... ...its powerlessness feeds its hatred and vengefulness. I believe that the Bible story of the expulsion from earthly paradise is actually talking ab... ... Homer created the poem the Odyssey in almost the same period that the Bible was written in the West and the teachings of Buddha were put into wr... ...own personal interpretation of the religion of his time. The God of the Bible is a forgiving one, but he is also punishing and vengeful. In the ... ...ore than beauty, is very important in the Eastern tradition. While the Bible and the books of Buddha speak of religious teachings that over time... ... fact that Homer’s poems are books of wisdom was something all the ancient commentators recognized. I am not the first to assert this, and not long ...

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...one of Peace." "On the way back from Palermo I read again the passage in the Bible that described the Angel of Death taking the lives of the first-... ...nd hung up. Alex turned to Brand, and to his amazement found him reading the Bible. He repeated the information to Brand, and without saying a word... ...he said, setting down the tray. The morning passed, slowly. Antonio read the Bible, searching for passages that would help soothe his soul, while G... ...tructed his men to do. He watched the news on television, and listened to the commentators lament the fact that there were no leads as to the wherea...

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...for the booty. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV-TR (2000), the bible of psychiatry, kleptomaniacs feel "pleasure, gratification... ...eart-rending and it gave rise to a veritable not-so-cottage industry of activists, commentators, legal eagles, scholars, and opportunistically symp...

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...ght over the recording and that over the composition. In fact, he quotes the Bible more, and more accurately, than he does Title 17 of the U.S. Code—t... ...ge arrived at his ruling, which has resulted in the case being criticized by commentators. 22 They did like one thing about the decision, however: its... ...teenth century. Openness sometimes begets open- ness.) Would translating the Bible from Latin into the vernacular open the door to unorthodox and here...

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... phenomenon of exclusionary conscience far predates these horrendous events. In the Bible, the ancient Hebrews are instructed to exterminate all Ama... ...for the booty. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV-TR (2000), the bible of psychiatry, kleptomaniacs feel "pleasure, gratification... ...eigning theory tends to colour the interpretation of new data. A cult of "priests' (commentators and pundits) emerges to defend common wisdom and "w...

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... phenomenon of exclusionary conscience far predates these horrendous events. In the Bible, the ancient Hebrews are instructed to exterminate all Ama... ...for the booty. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV-TR (2000), the bible of psychiatry, kleptomaniacs feel "pleasure, gratification... ...eigning theory tends to colour the interpretation of new data. A cult of "priests' (commentators and pundits) emerges to defend common wisdom and "w...

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...an Melville front was in the likeness of a ship’s bluff bows, and the Holy Bible rested on a projecting piece of scroll work, fashioned after a ship’s... ...m. A brief pause ensued; the preacher slowly turned over the leaves of the Bible, and at last, folding his hand down upon the proper page, said: “Belo... ...lf. The Nan- tucketer, he alone resides and riots on the sea; he alone, in Bible language, goes down to it in ships; to and fro ploughing it as his ow... ...him on board the Pequod, quite at home there in the cabin, and reading his Bible as if at his own fireside. Now while Peleg was vainly trying to mend ... ...t—a night-cap for Stubb, the second mate, her brother-in- law, and a spare Bible for the steward—after all this, the two Captains, Peleg and Bildad, i... ..., and crawled into them. Besides, it has been divined by other continental commentators, that when Jonah was thrown overboard from the Joppa ship, he ...

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...ts panelled front was in the likeness of a ship’s bluff bows, and the Holy Bible rested on a projecting piece of scroll work, fashioned 50 Chapter 8 ... ...m. A brief pause ensued; the preacher slowly turned over the leaves of the Bible, and at last, folding his hand down upon the proper page, said: “Belo... ...self. The Nantucketer, he alone resides and rests on the sea; he alone, in Bible language, goes down to it in ships; to and fro ploughing it as his ow... ...him on board the Pequod, quite at home there in the cabin, and reading his Bible as if at his own fireside. Now while Peleg was vainly trying to mend a... ... — a night cap for Stubb, the second mate, her brother in law, and a spare Bible for the steward — after all this, the two captains, Peleg and Bildad,... ... King and Queen, “because of its superior excellence.” And by the soundest commentators this has ever been held a cogent argument in such matters. But...

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...by author ity; but in doing this, he always used the scriptures and their commentators, as the lawyer doth his Coke upon Lyttleton, where the comment... ...ing the horse, than he was discovered to have some time before sold a fine Bible which Mr. Allworthy gave him, the money arising from which sale he ha... ... money arising from which sale he had disposed of in the same manner. This Bible Master Blifil had purchased, though he had already such another of hi... ...or the book, and partly out of friendship to Tom, being unwilling that the Bible should be sold out of the family at half price. He therefore deposite... ...the contrary, from the time when Master Blifil was first possessed of this Bible, he never used any other. Nay, he was seen reading in it much oftener... ...any higher crime in selling one book than in selling another. That to sell Bibles was strictly law ful by all laws both Divine and human, and consequ...

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... Hills, The tents to Nature’s Show, Mistake the outside what we saw. Could Commentators on the sign Of Nature’s Caravan Obtain “admission,” as a child... ... Thief, Compassion for Integrity Is his divinest Grief. CIV THE Bible is an antique volume Written by faded men, At the suggestion of Holy ... ... That such have died enables us 223 The bee is not afraid of me, 114 The Bible is an antique volume 304 The blunder is to estimate,— 259 334 The ...

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... woman.” “Come, Ben,” said Adam, rather sternly, “you let the words o’ the Bible alone; you’re going too far now.” “What! Are ye a-turnin’ roun’, Adam... ...rnin’ noway. I said nought about the women preachin’. I said, Y ou let the Bible alone: you’ve got a jest- book, han’t you, as you’re rare and proud o... ...on inside him. I know a man must have the love o’ God in his soul, and the Bible’s God’s word. But what does the Bible say? Why, it says as God put hi... ... said, ‘Aunt, will he go back to the sky to-night, like the picture in the Bible?’ “That man of God was Mr. Wesley, who spent his life in doing what o... ...e told us as ‘Gospel’ meant ‘good news.’ The Gospel, you know, is what the Bible tells us about God. “Think of that now! Jesus Christ did really come ... ...of interpreting the Scriptures, which is not at all sanctioned by approved commentators; and it is 34 Adam Bede impossibie for me to represent their ...

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... general prin- ciples of their legislation. The Americans have lawyers and commentators, but no jurists;* and they furnish examples rather than lesson... ...the backwoods, and who penetrates into the wilds of the New World with the Bible, an axe, and a file of newspapers. It is difficult to imagine the inc... ... to their own country. Next comes an enormous quantity of religious works, Bibles, ser- mons, edifying anecdotes, controversial divinity, and reports ... ...p, upon a shelf formed of a roughly hewn plank, a few volumes of books - a Bible, the six first books of Milton, and two of Shakespeare’s plays; along...

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...te. Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, Bibles, billet-doux. Now awful beauty puts on all its arms; The fair each m... ...ase, And see what friends, and read what books I please: 103 ‘Bufo:’ most commentators refer this to Lord Halifax. 207 The Poetical Works of Alexand...

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...ill death us do part” is a corruption of “till death us depart.” Wiclif ’s Bible, in Matt. xix. 6, has “therfor a man departe not that thing that God ... ...est. The 1st and 3d person plural be is often found in Shakespeare and the Bible. 10. Yet live there still, etc. See on ii. 692 above. 15. What time. ... ...the morrice-dancers, on whom so much illustration has been bestowed by the commentators on Shakespeare. A very lively picture of these festivities, co...

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...otes in pencil: sometimes compli mentary, sometimes jocose. Some of these commentators, like commentators in a more extensive way, quarrel with one a... ...en of Verbosity were asked to choose between our honourable friend and the Bible, and our honourable friend’s opponent and the Koran. They decided for...

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... and began. “About books now. What have you read? Just Shakespeare and the Bible?” “I haven’t read many classics,” Rachel stated. She was slightly ann... ...cks next door, which is wrong. Sophocles, Swift. You don’t care for German commentators, I presume. French, 161 Virginia Woolf then. You read French?... ...coloured footstools; it had a small pulpit, and a brass eagle carrying the Bible on its back, while the piety of different women had supplied ugly squ... ... Early in the service Mrs. Flushing had discovered that she had taken up a Bible instead of a prayer-book, and, as she was sitting next to Hirst, she ...

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...st man upon earth, and actively looking out for him, in his silver-clasped Bible, the texts which the minister quoted or expounded. I believe it was t... ...er Colkitto. This last leader, who, to the great embarrassment of Milton’s commentators, is commemorated in one of that great poet’s sonnets, was prop...

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...Divine Comedy was to me a vast enigma to which none had found the clue—the commentators least of all. Thus, to understand Dante is to be as great as h... ...aise an important question—that of the date of the various writings in the Bible. The great and immortal Spinoza—most foolishly ranked as an atheist, ... ... God—asserts that the Book of Genesis and all the political history of the Bible are of the time of Moses, and he demon- strates the interpolated pass...

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...lexibility had been the despair of Mr. Striker. All this was what friendly commentators (still chiefly femi- nine) alluded to when they spoke of his d... ...dam and Eve,” said Gloriani, “I suppose you are going straight through the Bible.” He was one of the persons who thought Roderick delight- fully fresh... ... the loveliest of women!” “Very likely! But they mean no more to me than a Bible text to an atheist!” “I utterly fail,” said Rowland, in a moment, “to...

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..., if escape there were, through religion. Religion was to be sought in the Bible. But was the Bible intelligible at the first glance? Far from it. Sea... ...ual searching by very unlearned persons. Our authorized translators of the Bible in the Shakspearian age were not in any exquisite sense learned men; ... ...ianity (she hoped) would mount like an eagle; for just about that time the Bible Society was preparing its initial movements; whilst to my uncle India... ... as mere trifles “Such gifts as we greet modern friends withal;” where all commentators have felt that modern must form the position, mean, slight, ar... ...ke an amulet—or like a conjurer’s charm. Precisely the monkish effect of a Bible when hurled at an evil spirit—not the true rational effect of that pr...

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... of our own country that succeeded the Reformation, the translators of the Bible, Shakespeare, Spenser, the Dramatists of the reign of Eliza- beth, an... ... _20 Had their brains knocked out by them. 6. 6. 6. 6. 6. Clothed with the Bible, as with light, And the shadows of the night, Like Sidmouth, next, Hy... ...lliteration of the text had captivated the vulgar ear of the herd of later commentators.—Shelley’s note.) 408 V olume One P P P P PAR AR AR AR ART 1.... ...ping neighbours came next day— They found all vanished from the shore: The Bible, whence he used to pray, Half scorched under a hen-coop lay; Smashed ... ..._215 For every gibbet says its catechism And reads a select chapter in the Bible Before it goes to play. [A most tremendous humming is heard.] PUR PUR...

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... said Betty, ‘much of a hand at reading writing-hand, though I can read my Bible and most print. And I do love a newspaper. You mightn’t think it, but... ...ersisted in dishing the dinner as well as cook- ing it, and then sat down, bibless and apronless, to partake of it as an illustrious guest: Mrs Wilfer... ...I DEVISED THIS STORY, I foresaw the likelihood that a class of readers and commentators would suppose that I was at great pains to conceal exactly wha...

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...eir admiration for the mysteries plainly attests, that their belief in the Bible is a formal assent rather than a living faith: and the fact is made s... ... ments of sedition and other ills innumerable, I determined to examine the Bible afresh in a careful, impartial, and unfettered spirit, making no assu... ...he masses to devotion towards God, I became thoroughly convinced, that the Bible leaves reason absolutely free, that it has nothing in common with phi... ...gorically and exhaust the whole question, I point out the way in which the Bible should be interpreted, and show that all of spiritual questions shoul... ...e shreds of antiquity for eternal truths – pays homage to the Books of the Bible, rather than to the Word of God. (44) I show that the Word of God has... ...ould see an angel, but this is mere nonsense. (39) The sole object of such commentators seems to be to extort from Scripture confirmations of Aristote...

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...s of the masses with devotion. (74) If, therefore, events are found in the Bible which we can- not refer to their causes, nay, which seem entirely to ... ...ce the reason, but to attract and lay hold of the imagination. (86) If the Bible were to describe the destruction of an empire in the style of politic... ...ption, and refers all things immediately to God. (87) When, therefore, the Bible says that the earth is barren because of men’s sins, or that the blin... ...no similar miracles befell them. (111) In this way many occurrences in the Bible are to be regarded merely as Jewish expressions. (112) There is no ne... ...ii:9, and for all things being referred to God, whence it appears that the Bible seems to relate nothing but miracles, even when speaking of the most ... ...under- standing as this that the masses acquiesce, not in the testimony of commentators; with regard to other questions, the ignorant and the learned ... ...monize them. (50) The Rabbis evidently let their fancy run wild. (51) Such commentators as I have, read, dream, invent, and as a last resort, play fas... ...cles, all I can say is, that he did not know how to state a fact. (53) The commentators make many other assertions of this kind, which if true, would ... ...- nize them. (62) The Rabbis evidently let their fancy run wild. (63) Such commentators as I have, read, dream, invent, and as a last resort, play fas...

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...emn sacrament and with drawal from the world, just as the aged read their Bibles. Whether we live by the seaside, or by the lakes and rivers, or on t... ...ians, than of the Hebrews, which I have come to last. Give me one of these Bibles and you have silenced me for a while. When I recover the use of my t... ... home, to catch fish at the falls; and here also came John Eliot, with the Bible and Cat echism, and Baxter’s Call to the Unconverted, and other trac... ... off, for no binding will avail, and it appears that they are not Books or Bibles at all. There are new and patented inventions in this shape, purport... ...dit, reserved to crown the labors of the printing press. This would be the Bible, or Book of Books, which let the missionaries carry to the utter mos... ...ny communication which they make, that attracts us. Between them and their commentators, it is true, there is an endless dispute. But if it comes to t...

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... or Books of Abraham, mentioned in Sura lxxxvii. 19, p. 40, 41, which most commentators affirm to have been borrowed from them, as is also the case wi... ...il’s Mohammed der Prophet, pp. 361-363. It is understood by the Muhammadan commentators to have a primary reference to the succession of subjects or p... ...abic. The first five verses of this Sura are, in the opinion of nearly all commentators, an- cient and modern, the earliest revelations made to Muhamm... ...ious to the Flight, and with spe- cial reference, if we are to believe the commentators Beidhawi, etc., to the opposition which Muhammad expe- rienced... ...f the envier when he envieth. 1 Lit. who blow on knots. According to some commentators an allusion to a species of charm. Comp. Virg.Ec. vi. But the ... ...7 On Houd, see Geiger, pp. 113 119. He supposes him to be the Eber of the Bible. But Mr. Muir suggests that both Houd and Saleh may have been persecu... ...y, with the view of prov- ing his inspiration–was well acquainted with the Bible his- tories. He wished to appear ignorant in order to raise the elega...

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... inclined, always going to church twice a day when on shore, and reading his Bible on a Sunday in the - 18 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry D... ...he common law as expounded in the decisions of courts, and in the books of commentators, are express and unanimous to this point, that the captain ... ...he institution of Savings Banks for Seamen; the distribution of tracts and Bibles;—are all means which are silently doing a great work for this clas... ...religious influence there, should be the great object. The distribution of Bibles and tracts into cabins and forecastles, will do much toward this.... ...he like, often touches the heart of the roughest and most aban- doned. The Bible is to the sailor a sacred book. It may lie in the bottom of his che... ...d man of our crew, one Sunday morning, asked one of the boys to lend him his Bible. The boy said he would, but was afraid he would make sport of it. ‘...

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...st 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, woul... ...rs have sold more of them in two months’ time than there will be bought of Bibles in nine years. I therefore, your humble slave, being very willing to... ...ts, counsellors, advocates, procurers, attor- neys, and other glossers and commentators on the venerable rubric, De frigidis et maleficiatis. You are,... ...and revealed them to us openly and plainly, and described them in the Holy Bible. There will you find that you shall never be a cuckold, that is to sa... ...his own health, Physi- cian, heal thyself. Galen had some knowledge of the Bible, and had con- 515 Rabelais versed with Christians of his time, as ap... ... precious, praised by all men, and pleasing in all places. Read the sacred Bible, you will find the prayers of those who asked moderately were never u... ... that one of their hypothetes, that’s one of the scavengers, scourers, and commentators of their holy decretals, had written that, in the same manner ... ...f Scotus, though they treat of matters dark enough in themselves. The best commentators on that good father take the jubilee after the thirtieth to be...

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...n, or the Grampians—had he studied Boileau less, and Dante, Milton, or the Bible more—we cannot tell; but he certainly, in this case, would have left ... ...pproves. More legends were there here of wicked wives Than good in all the Bible and saints’ lives. Who drew the lion vanquish’d? ’T was a man: But co... ...th musty dull rules, Have reading to females denied: So Papists refuse The Bible to use, Lest flocks should be wise as their guide. 3 ’T was a woman a... ... even to him, I entreat thee to consider how minutely all true critics and commentators are wont to insist upon such, and how material they seem to th... ...gular character! Of which, let the reader make what he can. Doubtless most commentators would hence take occasion to turn all to their author’s advant... ...st have made her stand. What can I now my Fletcher cast aside, Take up the Bible, once my better guide? 200 Or tread the path by... ... 80 And him and his if more devotion warms, Down with the Bible, up with the Pope’s arms.’ 303 A place there is, betwixt earth, air, ... ... who brings,’ &c. Wonderful is the stupidity of all the former critics and commentators on this work! It breaks forth at the very first line. The auth...

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...ous astronomical treatises, and as to Hebrew as regards the text of the Holy Bible, which deficiencies, indeed, Clement V. provides for, if only the b... ...apes of letters, straightway, if they have the op portunity, become unhappy commentators, and wherever they find an extra margin about the text, furn...

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... Another Aretine, of the Tarlati family, concerning whose death the early commentators are at variance. Benvenuto da Imola says that, hotly pursuing ... ...place, set round with palaces. The friend of Provinzano is said by the old commentators to have fought for Conradin against Charles of Anjou, and, bei... ..., ‘All mankind natu- rally desire knowledge.’” Matthew Arnold, God and the Bible, cli. iv. This sentence of Aristotle is cited by Dante in the first c... ...nd is not.”—Revela- tion, xvii. 8. 7 According to a belief, which the old commentators report as commonly held by the Florentines, if a murderer coul...

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...ns in the Dialogues of Plato, a precise dramatic date is an invention of his commentators (Preface to Re- public). The conclusion of the Dialogue is r... ...ot the revelation, but rather, like all similar descriptions, whether in the Bible or Plato, the veil of another life. For no visible thing can reveal... ...e. For no visible thing can reveal the invisible. Of this Plato, unlike some commentators on Scripture, is fully aware. Neither will he dogmatize abou...

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...“Honest hatless Cromwell with red breeches” This epi- thet has puzzled the commentators, but its import is obvi- 120 Biographical Essays ous enough C... ...ords of his life. Whither, indeed, could he fly for comfort, if not to his Bible? And to whom was the Bible an indispensable resource, if not to Lamb?...

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... rich light on the long rows of shelves, bending under the weight of legal commentators and monkish historians, whose ponderous volumes formed the chi... ...agement insisted upon by this violent man.” The clergyman took his clasped Bible from his pocket, and read the following words: “If a woman vow a vow ...