| 单词 | the father of lies |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe father of lies b. the father of lies and variants: the Devil. [With allusion to John 8:44: ‘Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.’ (King James Version). Compare post-classical Latin pater mendacii, literally ‘father of the lie’ (4th or 5th century in Augustine).] ΚΠ OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: John (headings to readings) xxiii Diabolum homicidam et mendacii patrem adsignat : diobul monnslaga & leasunges ðone fæder tobecnað. c1430 N. Love Mirror Blessed Life (Brasenose e.9) (1908) 16 Ȝoure enemye and myne, the fader of lesynge. 1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. cxij Now ye preach no thinge but lyes, and therfore are of the devyll the father of al lyes and of him are ye sent. 1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? xxvi. 204 Thou Lyer, and misborne Elfe of the Father of lies. 1749 Counter-apol. 19 I should suspect him for a cheat; and tell him to his face, that he was rather an emissary of the father of lies than an angel from Heaven. 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan II. 5 The Father of Lies himself. 1866 J. E. Cooke Surry of Eagle's-nest cxx. 435 The father of lies himself might have envied the consummate skill of the secret enemy who concocted this story. 1919 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 2 260 Priests and laymen alike regarded the native beliefs with frank contempt, and..did not hesitate to attribute them to the father of lies. 1962 M. Trevor Newman 201 It seemed worse than useless to attempt to fight the father of lies with comforting generalizations. 2009 A. V. Smithson Facedown 290 As the father of lies, the enemy continued his prodding me, keeping me from victory over sin. < as lemmas |
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