BULLSEYE!
ACCURATE
BIBLE
KNOWLEDGE!
QUESTION: “WHERE DO
POPULAR
EXPRESSIONS COME FROM?”
ANSWER:
“THE KING
JAMES BIBLE”
Dear
Reader, have you ever wondered where some
popular expressions come from?
For
example
“You’re the apple
of my eye.”
or
“You can’t
be all
things to all men.”
or
“If I get
my hands on you … you’re as good as
dead.”
They come
straight out of the Bible.
Beside the
following 14 examples, there
dozens and dozens more.
And Jesus
looking upon them saith, With men it is
impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.
Mark
10:27
To the
weak became I as weak, that I might gain the
weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all
means save
some. 1 Corinthians 9:22
He found
him in a desert land, and in the waste
howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as
the
apple of his eye. Deuteronomy 32:10
They reel
to and fro, and stagger like a drunken
man, and are at their wits' end. Psalm 107:27
My bone
cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I
am escaped with the skin of my teeth. Job 19:20
These
things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye
might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of
good
cheer; I have overcome the world. John 16:33
And when
his friends heard of it, they went out to
lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself. Mark 3:21
And the
fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall
from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless
pit. Revelation 9:1
After the
number of the days in which ye searched
the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your
iniquities,
even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
Numbers 14:34
When he
therefore was come up again, and had broken
bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day,
so he
departed. Acts 20:11
Then Paul
answered, What mean ye to weep and to break
mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at
Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. Acts 21:13
Therefore
judge nothing before the time, until the
Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of
darkness,
and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every
man
have praise of God. 1 Corinthians 4:5
And the
LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy
brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
Genesis 4:9
Yet hath
he not root in himself, but dureth for a
while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word,
by
and by he is offended. Matthew 13:21
The
King James Bible was the last purification of Bibles right from the
1st century.
For
230 years prior to the 1611 Authorized Bible, The King James Bible,
The Holy Scriptures, there were The Wyclif Bible, The Tyndale Bible,
The
Coverdale Bible, The Matthew Bible, The Great Bible, The Geneva Bible
and The
Bishop’s Bible.
These
were all successive corrections and purifications upon each other.
The
King James Bible solidified the English language and was the pillar
of it.
It
is no wonder the expressions and phrases from it, have seeped into
the subconscious mind, indeed the conscious mind, of the English
culture.
(Part
3 of 3)
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Harley
Hitchcock
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