All 6 Uses of
revelation
in
The Poisonwood Bible
- The tendon of his jaw was working, so I knew he was preparing a revelation.
Chpt 1 *revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
- What a revelation, that I could carry my own parcel like any woman here!
Chpt 5
- Book Two — THE REVELATION†
Chpt 2
Uses with a meaning too rare to warrant foucs:
- Chapter twenty-one of Revelation sets it out in reeds, and other books tell it in cubits, and not a one of them quite matches up.
Chpt 1revelation = a book in the Christian and Hebrew Bibles
- And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up…. If any man have an ear, let him hear.
--REVELATION 13:1Chpt 2 *
- I recited the 23rd Psalm, the 121st Psalm, the 100th and 137th and 19th and 66th Psalms, the 21st chapter of Revelation, Genesis one, Luke 22, First Corinthians, and finally John 3:16: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life."
Chpt 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(revelation) something that was previously unknown (and typically surprising); or making such a thing known
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, Revelation as a proper noun refers to the last book of the Bible with visionary descriptions of the End of Days. Less commonly still, it sometimes refers to things revealed religiously rather than via logic.