Authors: Tom Pollack
Tags: #covenant, #novel, #christian, #biblical, #egypt, #archeology, #Adventure, #ark
Wayward Son (65 page)
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Oral history
was the way history was kept alive as it was passed down from one generation to the next. Using performers, the history of a country or people group was retold by performers who employed technical requirements that used a verse technique which was syllabic along with the literary devices of assonance, half rhyme, and alliteration.
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"Am I my brother's keeper?"
is one of many everyday phrases we use that has biblical origins. Here are some others:
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- A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
- A drop in the bucket
- A fly in the ointment
- A house divided against itself cannot stand
- A labour of love
- A man after his own heart
- A leopard cannot change its spots
- A multitude of sins
- A nest of vipers
- A thorn in the flesh
- A wolf in sheep's clothing
- All things must pass
- All things to all men
- An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
- As old as Methuselah
- As old as the hills
- As white as the snow
- As you sow so shall you reap
- Ashes to ashes dust to dust
- At his wits end
- Beat swords into ploughshares
- Bite the dust
- Blessed be the peacemakers
- By the skin of your teeth
- Cast the first stone
- Coat of many colors
- Don't cast your pearls before swine
- Eat drink and be merry
- Faith will move mountains
- Fall from grace
- Fight the good fight
- Flesh and blood
- For everything there is a season
- Forbidden fruit
- Forgive them for they know not what they do
- From strength to strength
- Get the behind me Satan
- Give up the ghost
- Good Samaritan
- How are the mighty fallen
- In the beginning was the word
- In the twinkle of an eye
- It's better to give than to receive
- Lamb to the slaughter
- Land of Nod
- Let he who is without sin cast the first stone
- Let not the sun go down on your wrath
- Let there be light
- Living of the fat of the land
- Love of money is the root of all evil
- Love thy neighbor as thyself
- Many are called but few are chosen
- My cup runneth over
- No rest for the wicked
- O ye, of little faith
- Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings
- Physician heal thyself
- Red sky at night is a shepherds' (sailors) delight
- Spare the rod and spare the child
- Strait and narrow
- The apple of his (my) eye
- The blind leading the blind
- The bread of life
- The ends of the earth
- The fruit of your lions
- The powers that be
- The root of the matter
- The salt of the earth
- The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
- The wages of sin is death
- The writing is on the wall
- Thou shalt not kill
- Three score and ten
- What god has joined together let no man asunder
- White as snow
- Woe is me
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Nicknamed "the Just",
Aristides
was a Greek statesman and is most well known for the way he served as general for the Greeks during the Persian War.
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The war reaper
is a fictitious mechanism inspired by a similar device from the gates of Enoch several thousand years earlier.
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The old testament mentions
thirty pieces of silver
in the books of Exodus and Zechariah. In the Christian New Testament thirty pieces can be found in the Gospel of Matthew 26:15. In literature, generally speaking, thirty pieces of silver is used to describe a price at which someone will sell out or betray another.
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Master shipbuilders and merchants, the Phoenicians utilized two types of
Phoenician boats
: merchant ships (broad and round with sails and oars: see below) and war vessels with oars at multiple levels (three, four, or five) on both sides of the ship.
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Roman boats
were a unique creation of the ancient Romans. The Ancient Roman navy was slim at best, until 261 BC when the Roman Senate set out to beef up the fleet with 100 quinqueremes (boats with five rows of multiple oars on each side of the ship) and 20 triremes (three rows of oars on both sides).
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The use of the name "Master of Spirits" for the character Lucifer was inspired by Lord Byron's 1821 dramatic work,
Cain
.
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