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The term glean was first used in English in the 14th Century, and meant both "to gather grain or other produce left by reapers" and "to gather information or material bit by bit". [6] It has roots in Middle English ( glenen), Anglo-French ( glener ), and Late Latin ( glen(n)ō (“make a collection). [ 6 ]
The second meaning implies that Jesus, speaking in the open air, pointed to some birds nearby while speaking these lines. Birds of the sky literally translates as "birds in heaven," but this was a common expression for birds in flight through the air and does not imply the birds were with God. There are several debates over this verse.
In religious music, the hymn "Slave of God, Well Done!", by John Wesley, notably alludes to the "Parable of the Talents" (Matthew 25:23), which was written on the occasion of the death of George Whitefield (1714–1770), the English Anglican cleric who was instrumental to the First Great Awakening (ca. 1731–55) in Britain and in the American ...
The Reap, a 1997 arcade shooter computer game; Rounding Errors in Algebraic Processes, a mathematical book by James H. Wilkinson published in 1963 "Reap", a song by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus from the album Am I the Enemy
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Harvest", a noun, came from the Old English word hærf-est (coined before the Angles moved from Angeln to Britain) [4] meaning "autumn" (the season), "harvest-time", or "August". (It continues to mean "autumn" in British dialect, and "season of gathering crops" generally.) "The harvest" came to also mean the activity of reaping, gathering, and ...
Below is an alphabetical list of widely used and repeated proverbial phrases. If known, their origins are noted. A proverbial phrase or expression is a type of conventional saying similar to a proverb and transmitted by oral tradition.
Kamala Harris' Bungled Answer On ‘The View’ About Biden Seen As Turning Point For Campaign. During a live interview on the show in October, co-host Sunny Hostin asked the vice president if ...