scriptures

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A form of scripture — The foundational text of a given religion, or a text considered especially holy.

Less commonScrabble 14

Meanings

scriptures1

noun
  1. pluralplural of scripture

Scriptures2

noun
  1. pluralplural of Scripture

    […] idea of an infallible compilation of writings of the actual character of the Jewish and Christian Scriptures with every man his own interpreter thereof.

    1910, The Christian Work and the Evangelist, page 591
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    But to this it may be sufficient to answer, that had not the Scriptures of plenary inspiration first been given, the others would never have been composed. They were all written by men to whom the compositions which are the Word of God […]

    1839, Samuel Noble, The Plenary Inspiration of the Scriptures Asserted, page 317

    The Jew is not to reject the Christian Scriptures; - the Christian is to receive not only the Jewish and Christian Scriptures but also the Corân; - the Moslem is to accept and believe not only in the Corân, but in the Jewish and Christian Scriptures; […].

    1860, The Testimony Borne by the Coran to the Jewish and Christian Scriptures, page 79

    The Scriptures aim not merely to paint life, but to quicken and reproduce life. How much more, then, is needed a surrender of the will before there can be adequate appreciation of the Scriptures? If the Scriptures are the results primarily of […]

    2019, Francis John McConnell, Understanding the Scriptures, Good Press
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