单词 | seven seals |
释义 | > as lemmasseven seals seven seals n. the seven seals securing the divine scroll or book whose opening precipitates the apocalyptic events that precede the Second Coming of Christ; also in extended use (cf. seventh seal n. at seventh adj., adv., and n. Compounds). [After post-classical Latin sigilla septem (Vulgate); compare Hellenistic Greek σφραγῖδες ἑπτά (New Testament).] With reference to Revelation 5–8.Quot. OE shows equivalent use of seven inseils (cf. inseil n.). ΚΠ OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iv. xliv. 332 Se sæde, þæt he gesawe boc mid seofon inseglum geinseglode [L. signatum librum septem sigillis], & þæt nænig man wære gemeted wyrðe..þe þa boc moste untynan.] a1382 Prefatory Epist. St. Jerome in Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) v. l. 22 The boke in þe apocalips is schewid seeld with vii seeleȝ [L. sigillis septem]. 1599 R. Pont Newe Treat. Right Reckoning of Yeares 17 Now, the opening of the seaven seales of the Booke, signifyeth (as all godly writers expone it) the revelation and declaration of the hid counsels of God. 1871 Telegr. & Messenger (Macon, Georgia) 31 Dec. The rueful internecine struggle with communism followed, and opened the seven seals of wrath and ruin to Paris. 1943 J. C. Wrights in J. P. Cannon Struggle for Proletarian Party Introd. p. xii The great progressive role of Bolshevism still remains to a great many a secret sealed with seven seals. 2014 M. James Brief Hist. Seven Killings 215 The world now feeling like the seven seals breaking one after the other. < as lemmas |
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