单词 | gospel |
释义 | gospel/ˈɡɒsp(ə)l /noun 1 [in singular] The teaching or revelation of Christ: it is the Church’s mission to preach the gospel...
Synonyms Christian teaching, Christ's teaching, the life of Christ, the word of God, the good news, Christian doctrine, the New Testament, the writings of the evangelists 1.1 (also gospel truth) [mass noun] A thing that is absolutely true: they say it’s sold out, but don’t take that as gospel...
Synonyms the truth, the whole truth, the naked truth, gospel truth, God's truth, the honest truth; fact, actual fact, what actually/really happened, reality, actuality, factuality, the case, so, verity, a certainty 1.2A set of principles or beliefs: the gospel of market economics...
Synonyms doctrine, dogma, teaching, principle, ethic, creed, credo, theory, thesis, ideology, idea, ideal, position; belief, tenet, canon, conviction, persuasion, opinion 2 (Gospel) The record of Christ’s life and teaching in the first four books of the New Testament.We have Mary of Magdala to thank for having this part of The Gospel record in The Bible....
2.1Each of the first four books of the New Testament.View him as we see him in the gospels and in the book of Revelation....
2.2A portion from one of the Gospels read at a church service.Brother Hugh McKinney read the first scripture reading and the gospel was read by Canon Mark Diamond....
The four Gospels ascribed to St Matthew, St Mark, St Luke, and St John all give an account of the ministry, crucifixion, and resurrection of Christ, though the Gospel of John differs greatly from the other three. There are also several apocryphal gospels of later date. 3 (also gospel music) [mass noun] A fervent style of black American evangelical religious singing, developed from spirituals sung in Southern Baptist and Pentecostal Churches.Exposed to gospel music while attending Pentecostal churches; Elvis also listened to blues and country-western....
OriginOld English gōdspel, from gōd 'good' + spel 'news, a story' (see spell2), translating ecclesiastical Latin bona annuntiatio or bonus nuntius, used to gloss ecclesiastical Latin evangelium, from Greek euangelion 'good news' (see evangel); after the vowel was shortened in Old English, the first syllable was mistaken for god 'God'.
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