| 释义 |
over against1Adjacent to: over against the wall...- A voice called out, telling them to settle down, and they seated themselves on a mismatch of assorted chairs, a couple perching themselves on barrels and bales over against the wall.
- He spied three familiar figures hunched over against the wall.
- The bed that was in the center of the room was now over against the left wall.
2In contrast with: over against heaven is hell...- He sets over against this his own clear spiritual position.
- The Report could have chosen to speak in the strident tone of the Apocalypse, defining the church over against the whore of Babylon.
- The Commentary on the Song of Songs points much more in this direction, in that the synagogue and the church are set over against one another as the ‘old Eve’ and the ‘new Eve.’
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