Good Book

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Good Book

The Christian Bible.

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Good Book

(Bible) a name for the Bible Also called: the Book

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Good′ Book′

the Bible.

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Good Book - the sacred writings of the Christian religions; "he went to carry the Word to the heathen"

Christian Bible, Holy Scripture, Holy Writ, Scripture, Bible, Word of God, Book, Word

religious text, religious writing, sacred text, sacred writing - writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity

family Bible - a large Bible with pages to record marriages and births

Old Testament - the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible

Testament - either of the two main parts of the Christian Bible

New Testament - the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible

covenant - (Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return

eisegesis - personal interpretation of a text (especially of the Bible) using your own ideas

exegesis - an explanation or critical interpretation (especially of the Bible)

text - a passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon; "the preacher chose a text from Psalms to introduce his sermon"

Gabriel - (Bible) the archangel who was the messenger of God

Noachian deluge, Noah and the Flood, Noah's flood, the Flood - (Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah; it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beings

demythologise, demythologize - remove the mythical element from (writings); "the Bible should be demythologized and examined for its historical value"

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"That is all very true," said the Adversary, "but you taught by example that a verb should not agree with its subject in person and number, whereas the Good Book says that contention is worse than a dinner of herbs.

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Most men are satisfied if they read or hear read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what is called easy reading.

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they are like children, train 'em up in the way they should go, as the good book says, and when they are old they will not depart from it, if they have a chance."

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I took my dingy volume by the scroop, and hurled it into the dog- kennel, vowing I hated a good book. Heathcliff kicked his to the same place.

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Run to the house and get some sort of a good book. Anything will do.'

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Most of her hearers knew little of Carlyle or Emerson, or they might have remembered that the one said, "We are all poets when we read a poem well," and the other, "'T is the good reader makes the good book."

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And Friar Tuck, hold yourself in readiness, good book in hand, at the church.

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I haven't given up the hope that I may write a good book yet, but I can wait, and I'm sure it will be all the better for such experiences and illustrations as these." And Jo pointed from the lively lads in the distance to her father, leaning on the Professor's arm, as they walked to and fro in the sunshine, deep in one of the conversations which both enjoyed so much, and then to her mother, sitting enthroned among her daughters, with their children in her lap and at her feet, as if all found help and happiness in the face which never could grow old to them.

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We's doin' blame' well, en we better let blame' well alone, as de good book says.

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Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says.

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"It is written in the good book," said Monte Cristo, "that the sins of the fathers shall fall upon their children to the third and fourth generation.

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And so, as most good books were written in Latin, which only a few could read, he began to translate some of them into English.