| 单词 | antediluvian patriarch |
| 例句 | Darren Aronofsky's Noah has already entered production with Russell Crowe as the antediluvian patriarch with the famous ark, while Spielberg and Ridley Scott are said to be planning rival Moses epics. Warner Bros planning film about Pontius Pilate 2012-08-22T14:39:23Z According to the epic of it, humanity's primal home was a paradise where ten impressive persons—the models, it may be, of antediluvian patriarchs—reigned interminably, agreeably also, finally sinfully as well. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal It gives us the age of Adam at his death, and the ages of the other antediluvian patriarchs. Bible Romances First Series The house is modern, and even the arch without much pretension to antiquity; but the family stretching far back into the gloom of ages, and lineal ancestors of the antediluvian patriarchs. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 The ten antediluvian patriarchs belonging to the lineage of Christ, with their descendants, are enumerated. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood The ages of the antediluvian patriarchs, for instance, are accurately rendered into verse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Another difficulty relates to the age of the antediluvian patriarchs, which was about tenfold the present term of life for robust and healthful men. Companion to the Bible He found me in a retirement I doat on, living like an antediluvian patriarch among my children and grandchildren, and tilling my soil. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 The Chaldeans, the Egyptians, the Chinese, the Hindoos, Gauls, and Peruvians, each regarded themselves as the inventors of astronomy, an honour which Josephus deprives them of by ascribing it to the antediluvian patriarchs. Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects And so we can reach out our hands across all the centuries to this pre- Noachian, antediluvian patriarch, dim amongst the mists, and feel that he too is our brother. Expositions of Holy Scripture |
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