[OT] Bible sayings (was: Re: virus)

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be>]

Op vr 12-09-2003, om 10:42 schreef Peter Makholm:
> Bartosz Feński aka fEnIo <fenio@o2.pl> writes:
> 
> >> It propably comes from saying: "Live by the sword, die by the sword".
> > Polish version: "He who fights with the sword, will die by the sword."
> 
> Matthew 26.52:
>   Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for
>   all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. 

Right. Obviously, many sayings originate from the bible. The other one
in this thread:

wouter@worldmusic:~$ bible 
bible: Debian/BRS Release 4.10, $Date: 2003/01/08 18:40:11 $
Hit '?' for help.

Genesis 1

  1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
bible(KJV) [Gen1:1]> ??pit
  Searching for 'pit'... [80 refs]
bible(KJV) [Gen1:1]> ?and fall
  Searching for 'fall'... [237 refs]
  [10 refs in combined list]
bible(KJV) [Gen1:1]> ?list
  References [10]:  Ex21:33 Pr22:14 Pr26:27 Pr28:10 Ec10:8 Is24:18 Je48:44
Ezk31:16 Mt12:11 Re9:1
bible(KJV) [Gen1:1]> 

The verses Pr26:27, Pr28:10 and Ec10:8 are all candidates for a possible
etymology of this saying :-)

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