As I am preaching on Matthew Five these days, I was reading Archibald Thomas Robertson’s “Word Pictures in the New Testament,” I found him mention a phrase from this rendering of the text.
As a Scotsman, I had to post it here. If ye cannie read i’ for yerself, ya kin listen here with Real Player.
~Steve
1. And, seeing the thrang o’ folk, he gaed up intil a mountain; and whan he was sutten-doon, his disciples gather’t aboot. Continue reading
There you stand in front of the refrigerator holding the door open looking inside.
You’re hungry, but while the ‘fridge is full, nothing there is what you’re really looking for. How many times have you felt this way?
I personally found what I was hungry for during the summer of my sophomore year at the University of Pittsburgh. In this audiofile, I explain how I found it.
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I’ve looked for the source on this for years. Finally, I found this reference and have posted it below. ~Steve
“On seeing several criminals being led to the scaffold in the 16th century, English Protestant martyr John Bradford remarked, ‘There but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.’ His words, without his name, are still very common ones today for expressing one’s blessings compared to the fate of another. Bradford was later burned at the stake as a heretic.” From the “Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins” by Robert Hendrickson, Facts on File, New York, 1997.