Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Matthew (7:6) must have had Mr. Kennedy in mind when he wrote: "Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend...
...ceremony in London's medieval Southwark Cathedral. While a choir chanted a somber psalm and middle-aged women prayed in silence, scarlet-hooded bishops cast Vicar Thomas out of the Church of England. They read from I Samuel ("And I will raise me up a faithful priest") and Matthew ("Beware of false prophets"). Then the Bishop of Southwark, Mervyn Stockwood, rose to pass final judgment: "By the authority committed to us by Almighty God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, we remove, depose and degrade William Bryn Thomas from all clerical offices...
...critical lash falls with less severity than formerly. It is true that Professor David M. Robinson, an expert on Toynbee's favorite "Hellenic" world, hardly tries to conceal his conviction that Toynbee is profoundly ignorant of some of the basic sources of study in his favorite field. Professor Matthew A. Fitzsimons of Notre Dame says flatly that Toynbee's treatment of the U.S. "is in accurate and distorted, insufficient and indefinite." Yet most of these experts pay homage to his scope, his overall grasp, the boldness of his vision. Relatively, time has been on Toynbee's side...
...much for the New English Bible's poetry. Instances of "jargon, and all that is either stilted or slipshod" are even more numerous. Matthew's account of Pilate's altercation with the Jews is given overtones of "Mrs. Murphy's Chowder": "Why, what harm has he done?" Pilate asked; but they shouted all the louder, "Crucify him!" The sayings of Jesus become jingles ("If your right eye leads you astray...
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