HARD SAYINGS; HARD SENTENCES

sa'-ingz;, sen'-ten-siz: In Daniel 5:12 the King James Version (Aramaic 'aqiahan), the Revised Version (British and American) "dark sentences," of enigmatic utterances which preternatural wisdom was needed to interpret; in John 6:60 (skleros. ho logos), of sayings (Christ's words at Capernaum about eating His flesh and drinking His blood) difficult for the natural mind to understand (compare 6:52).

The Unseen Watcher
... and soothsayers; forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding,
interpreting of dreams, and showing of hard sentences, and dissolving of ...
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Third Stage of the Roman Trial. Pilate Reluctantly Sentences Him ...
... Pilate Reluctantly Sentences Him to Crucifixion. ... [The soldiers had no special malice
against Jesus, but the Roman military system made men hard of heart. ...
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He Will be an Intellectual Genius
... The Hebrew word here translated "dark sentences" is the same as the one rendered
"hard questions" in 1 Kings 10:1, where we read of the Queen of Sheba coming ...
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"What is Your Life?"
... And if God did not rather choose a few hard solid sentences of truth to perpetuate
an answer to one of the most solid thoughts of life, is it not just because ...
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The New Testament Text and Its History.
... In Acts 9:5, the words, It is hard for thee to kick against the ... of omissions is the
similar termination of two adjacent words, lines, or sentences, causing the ...
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Antichrist in Daniel
... noun for "dark sentences" is used of Samson's riddle (Judges 14:12, of the Queen
of Sheba's hard questions (1 Kings 10:1), and of the dark sayings of the wise ...
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Of the Massacre of Thessalonica; the Boldness of Bishop Ambrosius ...
... You have inflicted wounds right hard to heal; what salve have you applied?" "Yours ...
make the sentence of your passion null and void; let the sentences which have ...
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Prologue.
... by the Latins in imitation of the four books of "Sentences" of Peter ... time are added
the annotations explaining all the difficulties and the hard and lofty ...
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"This is his Commandment, That," &C.
... by obedience, and lay hold on his righteousness as your own, and in him ye are
justified, and delivered from all these sentences and hard writings against you. ...
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He Comes to his Own.
... This is the most heart-breaking of all of John's heart-breaking sentences.
John had a hard time writing this Gospel of his. He was ...
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