| 单词 | rudiments of the world |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrudiments of the world rudiments of the world n. Theology (in translations of or allusions to biblical passages, especially Galatians 4:3, where alternatively ‘elements of the world’, but variously interpreted over time). [Translating Hellenistic Greek τὰ στοιχεῖα τοῦ κόσμου (New Testament: Galatians 4:3); compare post-classical Latin elementa mundi (Vulgate)] . ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > [noun] secularity1395 sieclec1400 worldlishipa1425 worldliness?c1430 worldlihoodc1443 mundanity1506 secularness?1529 carnality1548 carnalness1549 earthliness1549 rudiments of the world1557 Sadduceeism1577 Sadducism1581 earthly-mindedness1603 temporalness1611 worldly-mindedness1621 corporality1628 unspiritualness1642 civility1644 corporeity1653 materialism1822 unspirituality1843 secularism1851 terrestrialism1856 temporalism1872 this-worldliness1872 despiritualization1874 this-worldism1883 this-worldness1930 1557 Bible (Whittingham) Gal. iv. 3 We, as longe as we were children, were in bondage vnder the rudiments of the worlde. 1577 T. Vautrollier tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. to Galathians (new ed.) f. 180 Paule..speaketh here euen of the law of God, which he calleth the elements or rudiments of the world. 1603 H. Clapham Three Partes Salomon Song of Songs Expounded iii. iii. 149 How well may the Gentiles seede..cry after a freedome..from the rudiments of the world. 1628 W. Prynne Vnlouelinesse of Louelockes 35 God commands us..not to subiect our selues to the Rudiments, Lusts, and Ordinances of Carnall, or Worldly men.] 1665 J. Bunyan Holy Citie 176 Not every babbling fellow, nor those that look for their abilities from the rudiments of the world. 1749 J. Bilstone Thirteen Serm. xiii. 252 St. Paul should thus guard his Christian Converts against this vain Deceit, the Traditions of Men, and the Rudiments of the World. a1752 R. Erskine Serm. (1777) I. xvii. 482 We must not be conformed to the traditions and rudiments of the world. 1808 Statem. Proc. Presbytery of Glasgow, Relative to Use of Organ in St. Andrew's Church 108 It cannot be doubted..that the carnal ordinances imposed under the former covenant, are no longer obligatory. They were the rudiments of the world—the shadow of things to come, but the body is Christ. 1847 J. Dunlavy Manifesto ii. x. 309 The rudiments of the world are its first principles, by which it is continued through succeeding generations, and the place of the deceased is continually supplied with a multiplied increase. 1911 Harvard Theol. Rev. 4 464 Why turn to the beggarly rudiments of the world when in Christ is God's consummate revelation? 2001 W. W. Wiersbe Bible Expos. Comm.: New Test. II. 131/2 Asceticism has to do with the rudiments of the world and not the riches of the kingdom. < as lemmas |
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