Old Testament

in a sentence

Go to the Old Testament; go to the New.  (source) Ernest J. Gaines, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, 1971

Dad came upstairs every evening and settled himself into a sofa in the Chapel, where he would cough and watch TV or read the Old Testament.†  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

Whether they favored the unflinching hand of the Old Testament or the more forgiving hand of the New, their submission to the will of God helped them to understand, or at least accept the inescapable course of events.†  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

Flipping through the Old Testament, he found the Book of Job.†  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

Still, no matter what your religious beliefs, to get the most out of your reading of European and American literatures, knowing something about the Old and New Testaments is essential.†  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003

Marie-Laure's great-uncle, locked with several hundred others inside the gates of Fort National, a quarter mile offshore, squints up and thinks, Locusts, and an Old Testament proverb comes back to him from some cobwebbed hour of parish school: The locusts have no king, yet all of them go out in ranks.†  (source) Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, 2014

His Koran, being the most recent holy book, takes precedence over the Old and New Testaments.†  (source) Betty Mahmoody, Not Without My Daughter, 1989

There was this guy named Job in the Old Testament who was a believer but had really terrible things happen to him.†  (source) Bethany Hamilton, Soul Surfer, 2004

"The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments," he read aloud from the title-page.†  (source) Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932

It was a beauty, a prize for a retired sea-captain's home in backwater Boston: scrimshaw and cowrie shells, Old Testament samplers cross-stitched by unmarried sisters, the smell of whale oil burning in the evenings, the stillness of growing old.†  (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013

'Tis the six-and-twentieth edition, promulgated at Boston, Anno Domini 1744; and is entitled, 'The Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Old and New Testaments; faithfully translated into English Metre, for the Use, Edification, and Comfort of the Saints, in Public and Private, especially in New England'.†  (source) James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, 1826

I'm not very sophisticated in my knowledge of the Old Testament, and I've not read the New Testament since my Sunday school days, except for those passages that I hear read aloud to me when I go to church.†  (source) John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, 1989

Northrop Frye, one of the great literary critics, said in the 1950s that biblical typology—the comparative study of types between the Old and New Testaments and, by extension, out into literature—was a dead language, and things haven't improved since then.†  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003