Word: testament
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hell with you and your money!" is what St. Peter said to Simon the magician when he offered to pay the Apostles for the gift of conferring the Holy Spirit. This, at least, is the rendering that a new translation of the New Testament gives to the words the King James version translates as "Thy Money perish with thee" (Acts 8:20). See RELIGION, Colloquial Scripture...
Yeivin thinks that Tell Goliath may well be Mamshat. Other Israelis hope that he is right. The Hebrews of the Old Testament were hillbillies living in the mountains. The rich lowlands belonged to the Philistine "cities of the plain." Now the Judean hills belong mostly to Arabs, while the Israelis occupy former Philistine territory. If Tell Goliath proves to be Mamshat, it will be an exception: a city of the plain that was Jewish in ancient times and is today part of modern Israel...
...doubt very much whether the New Testament writers were as subtle or as self-conscious as some commentators would make them appear," writes the Rev. John Bertram Phillips. "They would be, or indeed perhaps are, amazed to learn what meanings are sometimes read back into their simple utterances!" Anglican Phillips' attempt to make these utterances simple to 20th century readers is The New Testament in Modern English (Macmillan; $6), which last week was headed for the bestseller list...
...first section, the Epistles, so delighted Oxford's C. S. (The Screwtape Letters) Lewis that he wrote an introduction for it and supplied the title: Letters to Young Churches (it sold more than a million copies in the U.S.). Phillips followed it with the rest of the New Testament in three piecemeal volumes; all four comprise the present book...
...rediscovery of the Russian icon, one of the great, traditional art forms. Medieval Russians carried wonderworking icons into battle against the Tartars, held them aloft in religious processions, encrusted church partitions with them. Because pious tradition held that the earliest images were painted-from-life portraits of New Testament figures, the icons were scrupulously copied for some 800 years, repaired when damaged and endlessly varnished...