单词 | to go after gods |
释义 | > as lemmasto go after (other) gods 2. intransitive. to go after (other) gods: (in biblical use) to worship gods other than the God of Israel. Also in extended use. [Ultimately after Hebrew hālaḵ 'aḥărē 'ēlōhīm 'ăḥērīm (Deuteronomy 13:2, etc.), lit. ‘to go after other gods’, where hālaḵ 'aḥărē , lit. ‘to go after’, is used in the figurative sense ‘to follow the guidance of (a person)’. Compare similar uses of walk v. 7a and see the etymological note at that sense; compare also post-classical Latin ambulare post deos alienos (Vulgate), a calque on the Hebrew idiom.] ΚΠ 1530 Bible (Tyndale) Deut. xiii. f. xxvv Lat vs goo after straunge Goddes which thou hast not knowen, and let vs serue them. 1534 G. Joye tr. Jeremy Prophete ix. sig. D.ii v They..folowed the craftynes of their owne shrewed hartis & went aftir goddes as their fathers taught them. 1554 J. Knox Faythfull Admon. sig. B. v Thys people..go after other gods, to worship and serue them. 1673 T. Holme Brief Relation Sufferings of Quakers in Ireland 68 Solomon went after other Godds, and took Wives of the Idolatrous Nations. 1709 W. Reeves in tr. Justin Martyr et al. Apol. II. xl. 342 Let their vain Imaginations go after Gods of their own Invention. 1764 A. Purver New & Literal Transl. Bks. Old & New Test. II. (Jer. vii. 6) Neither shed innocent Blood in thie Place, not go after other gods to your own Hurt. 1868 Friends' Intelligencer 21 Mar. 28/1 They have gone after gods that could do them no good. 1986 E. E. Cleveland Milk & Honey 124 They went after gods of wood and stone. 2008 M. Slaughter Momentum for Life (rev. ed.) vii. 125 We abandon the path of ascent to go after gods that promise to make us happy. < as lemmas |
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