| 单词 | in one's own strength | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasin one's own strength  b.    in one's own strength: (chiefly in religious language) relying only on oneself (and not on divine grace), without help. ΚΠ a1382    Bible 		(Wycliffite, E.V.)	 		(Bodl. 959)	 		(1963)	 1 Kings ii. 9  				For in his owne strengþe schal not ben strengthyd a man [L. non in fortitudine roborabitur vir]. 1533    tr.  Erasmus Enchiridion Militis Christiani i. sig. A.viiiv 		(margin)	  				No man is stronge in his owne strengthe. 1552    Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. Tabil sig. *.iv  				Of hoip in our awin strenth. 1677    R. Gilpin Dæmonol. Sacra  i. xviii. 150  				The like spoil of Duty is made, when we adventure upon it, in our own strength. 1705    M. Henry Check to Ungovern'd Tongue 39  				Peter resolved against a Tongue-Sin in his own strength. 1801    Evangelical Mag. Dec. 459  				I was seeking in my own strength, and actuated wholly by selfish views. 1869    H. B. Stowe Oldtown Folks xv. 165  				Whatever sorrows might have crushed the poor heart that beat beneath that fair form, they were borne in her own strength, with no uplooking for aid. 1956    Life 1 Oct. 146/1  				Too long now we have tried to cope with our social ills in our own strength. 2006    I. M. Duguid Numbers xiv. 141  				In my own strength I am unable to write a sermon that will break the stony hearts of unbelievers. < as lemmas  | 
	
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