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
Strange that the other inspired penmen should have left altogether unchronicled this touching episode in sacred writ.
From Memories of Bethany by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)
I have found it in the sacred writ, said I, that Cain was the first that built a town; we may then reasonably conjecture that from his name he gave it that of Cainon.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
How truly this applies to the persons mentioned in sacred writ!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 by Various
He opens, with profound knowledge and eminent skill, all those portions of sacred writ which illustrate the nature, excellency, and government of the house of God, with the personal and relative duties of its inhabitants.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John
