Word: testament
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Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, 56, of Oxford, England, is a melancholy-looking wit who likes to do two things: walk and write. He writes about everything from morals to murders. His latest book, The New Testament in English (Sheed & Ward; $3), a translation from St. Jerome's 4th-Century Latin Vulgate, is for English-speaking Roman Catholics the first fresh translation of the New Testament from the Latin since the standard Douay version was published at Reims...
...Benedictine monk, Dom Aelred Graham of Ampleforth Abbey, rushed to the Pope's defense: "His Holiness does no more than proclaim New Testament Christianity: see Matthew 5:44.* This was the message expounded from the higher level of the cross: see Luke 23:34.† That Mr. Herbert detects in this feebleness of mind sets one wondering! There come to remembrance some striking words of St. Paul very much to the point: see I Corinthians...
Last week Doctor I. Q. was boning up on Old Testament history, philosophy, prayer-book history and comparative religion at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill. The "wise man with the friendly smile and cash" was headed for the ministry. Within three years he expects to abandon his enviable $2,000-a-week radio job for a $40-a-week Episcopal rectorship in some small town in his native Kentucky...
This factory here, or that machine shop there, cut down on war production. Whole communities sniffed the new optimism. Despite the best-intentioned Old Testament preachments from Washington, the people reasoned that this would be the last summer for at least the European...
...helmeted pilots sat in the ready-room and waited. They had been briefed. For once. Jumping Joe ran out of conversation. Finally he got out his Testament and began to read aloud the gist Psalm...