| 单词 | god's chest |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGod's chest God's chest n. now historical a receptacle (in the Jewish Temple or a church) for money given for charitable purposes. [Compare Middle Low German gōdeskiste, gōdeskaste, German Gotteskasten (1522 in Luther, now historical).] ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > furniture > other furniture > [noun] > treasury corbana1400 God's chest1535 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Mark xii. 41 Iesus sat ouer agaynst the Gods chest & behelde how the people put money in to the Gods chest. c1600 Will of William Littlebury (Essex Rec. Office: D/P 26/25/19) [Gives £10 to] Godes chest [in Dedham Church]. a1891 W. Walker in Pioneers of Ceylon (1897) 109 The people that stood by the temple door With wonder gazed as they saw the wealth pour Into God's chest from the hoarded store. 1999 C. McIntosh tr. B. Roeck in O. P. Grell et al. Health Care & Poor Relief in Counter-Reformation Europe xiii. 287 There were complaints that the parish's God's Chest, donated long ago by the citizens, had been united with the Jesuits' chest. < as lemmas |
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