Apples of Gold

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

Proverbs 25:11

 

 

 

This blog is a continuation of last week's blog, The Power of Words. I challenged my readers to see how many of the phrases that I listed had originated in the Bible.  Below, you can check your answers to see how well you did.

 

1. A sorry sight   (Shakespeare's MacBeth)

2. Apple of his eye   (Psalm 17:8)

3. To pine away   (Ezekiel 33:10)

4. A fool's paradise   (Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet)

5. Skin of his teeth   (Job 19:20)

6. All of a sudden   (Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew)

7. Blind leading the blind   (Luke 6:39)

8. As dead as a doornail   (Shakespeare's King Henry VI)

9. As pure as the driven snow   (combines two of Shakespeare's phrases from MacBeth and The Winter's Tale.

10. The eleventh hour   (Matthew 20:6)

11. Beside himself   (Mark 3:21)

12. His head on a plate   (Mark 6:28)

13. Dash to pieces   (appeared in Shakespeare's The Tempest in 1610 and the KJV in 1611)

14. A stone's throw   (Luke 22:41)

15. Eaten out of house and home   (Shakespeare's Henry IV)

16. Heart's content   (Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice)

17. Sharper than a serpent's tooth   (Shakespeare's King Lear)

18. Hold my tongue   (Esther 7:4)

19. Safe and sound   (Luke 15:27)

20. The crack of doom (Shakespeare's MacBeth)

 

There is a poetic beauty to the language of the King James Bible. It was a product of the Elizabethan era; a time when the English language reached its zenith. We see this, not only in the KJV Bible, but also in the writings of William Shakespeare- another product of this time period. The powerful influence of the Bible has impacted our language in an immeasurable way, however, the REAL power of the Word is its ability to change our lives.