单词 | fiery pentecost |
释义 | > as lemmasfiery Pentecost a. In religious or theological contexts: consisting of or attended by a display of (supernatural) fire; spec. with reference to the manifestation or actions of the Holy Spirit, as fiery baptism, fiery Pentecost, etc. Cf. baptism of fire n. at baptism n. 2b. fiery law: the Ten Commandments delivered to Moses by God, who descended on Mt. Sinai in fire (Exodus 19:18, Deuteronomy 33:2). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > [adjective] > attended with or full of fierya1300 fireda1425 a1300 Passion our Lord 660 in R. Morris Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 56 Þe holy gost heom com vp-on in fury tunge. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 1670 (MED) Forto wissen hem be nyhte, A firy Piler hem alyhte. a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iii. l.1600 The fery flood of helle. 1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca at Helias This is that Helias that brough fyre thyrse out of heauen, and bare rayne in his tungue, and was taken vp in a fyry storme. 1560 Bible (Geneva) Deut. xxxiii 2 He came with ten thousands of Saintes, and at hys right hand a firy Lawe for them. 1654 W. Jenkyn Expos. Jude: 2nd Pt. 486 This word shall be operative, efficacious, a working word, a fiery stream proceeding from the throne of the Judg, and sweeping the condemned into hell. 1694 H. L. tr. J. Abbadie Vindic. Truth Christian Relig. ii. iv. x. 427 God..charged Moses not to come near the fiery Bush where he manifested himself, till he had first put off his shoes. 1723 Antient Testimony of Quakers 5 They must witness the fiery Baptism of the Holy Ghost, to initiate them into this true Church. 1799 W. Huntington Corr. Noctua Aurita & Philomela xiii. 52 The soul..feels his shadow a sweet screen from Satan's fiery darts, and from the piercing sentences of a fiery law. 1831 Evangelical Mag. & Gospel Advocate 29 Jan. 35 Be extremely anxious to save precious immortal souls..from an endless fiery hell. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. v. xviii. 328 The awful fiery Law..delivered by God Himself. 1918 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 427/2 The fiery Pentecost will then descend and envelop our people with the glory of the battle for democracy and sweep its armies on to victory! 1972 Novum Testamentum 14 199 There is in fact no need to reject the interpretation of John having prophesied a punitive fiery baptism in order to authenticate his prophecy of a baptism with holy spirit. 2000 M. D. Jordan Silence of Sodom i. 17 Sodom.., over which fiery clouds always rain cinders. < as lemmas |
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