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
are the
salt of the earth.”
or
“We
don’t see eye to eye.”
or
“It’s
just a sign of the times.”
They
come straight out of the Bible.
Beside
the following examples, there dozens and dozens more.
And he
said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy
father hath KILLED THE FATTED CALF, because he hath received
him SAFE
AND SOUND. Luke 15:27
He
will
deliver his soul from going into the pit,
and his life shall SEE THE LIGHT. Job 33:28
Ask,
and
it shall be given you; SEEK, AND YE
SHALL FIND; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: Matthew 7:7
And
before
him shall be gathered all nations: and
he shall SEPARATE them one from another, as a shepherd divideth
his SHEEP
FROM THE GOATS: Matthew 25:32
In
those
days they shall say no more, The fathers
have eaten a sour grape, and the children's TEETH ARE SET ON EDGE.
Jeremiah
31:29
And
whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your
words, when ye depart out of that house or city, SHAKE OFF THE DUST
OF YOUR
FEET. Matthew 10:14
And
in the
morning, It will be foul weather to day:
for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the
face of the
sky; but can ye not discern THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES? Matthew 16:3
Then
believed they his words; they SANG HIS
PRAISE. Psalm 106:12
What
mean
ye, that ye use this proverb concerning
the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten SOUR GRAPES,
and the
children's teeth are set on edge? Ezekiel 18:2
Ye
are the
SALT OF THE EARTH: but if the
salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is
thenceforth good
for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Matthew
5:13
These
are
the names of the men which Moses sent to SPY
OUT THE LAND. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
Numbers 13:16
And
I
sought for a man among them, that should make
up the hedge, and STAND IN THE GAP before me for the land, that
I should
not destroy it: but I found none. Ezekiel 22:30
Thy
watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the
voice together shall they sing: for they shall SEE EYE TO
EYE,
when the LORD shall bring again Zion. Isaiah 52:8
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’ of the English culture.
(Part
2 of 3)
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Harley
Hitchcock
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