sacred writ

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While still treated as sacred writ, the constitution no longer described the nation’s existing system of governance.

From The Guardian • Jan. 7, 2020

Adam Clarke and Matthew Henry must sometimes turn over in their graves when he expounds the more mysterious passages of sacred writ.

From Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston by Atticus

Like all devout persons, her faith in the efficacy of sacred writ was strong: and she so much the more lamented her suitor's continued blindness, because it remained after light had shone upon it.

From The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers by Cooper, James Fenimore

Shakespeare writes— "From the table of my memory I'll wipe away all saws of books," and elsewhere of another of his characters he says that "his weapons" were "holy saws of sacred writ."

From Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources by Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward)

Some of these are to be found in sacred writ, of which the riddle which Samson proposed to the young men of Timnath, is a very ancient and curious specimen.

From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I by Cox, Francis Augustus