Testament
A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his will as to disposal of his estate and effects after his death.
One of the two distinct revelations of God's purposes toward man; a covenant; also, one of the two general divisions of the canonical books of the sacred Scriptures, in which the covenants are respectively revealed; as, the Old Testament; the New Testament; -- often limited, in colloquial language, to the latter.
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Testament Quotations
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
Thomas Paine
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Joseph Campbell
There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, "If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles."
Ray Charles
You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
William Faulkner
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Francis Bacon
Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me.
Lionel Blue
Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.
Lionel Blue
Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.
Josh McDowell
The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.
Josh McDowell
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Testament Translations
testament in Dutch is verbond, uiterste wil, testament
testament in French is testament
testament in Swedish is testamente
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