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THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE: A LIST OF BIBLICAL ALLUSIONS Pick ten of these sayings and explain them. If you know the story associated with the quote, include this information as well.  A drop in the bucket  A fly in the ointment  A good Samaritan  A house divided will not stand  A labor of love  A mountaintop experience  A prodigal son  A Road to Damascus experience  A thorn in the flesh  Adam’s apple: According to a nonBiblical legend, a piece of the forbidden fruit lodged in Adam’s throat as he ate it, indicating the grief that would come from it in the future.  All things must pass  Am I my brother’s keeper?  An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth  Apocalypse  Armageddon  As old as Methuselah  As old as the hills  Ashes to ashes and dust to dust  At their wits’ end  Baptism by fire  Beating swords into plowshares  Betrayed with a kiss  Blessed are the peacemakers  Bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh  Burning bush  Busybody  By the skin of your teeth  Calling someone “Judas”  Can a leopard change its spots?  Cast the first stone  Cast your pearls before swine  Daniel in the lion’s den  David and Goliath  Doubting Thomas  Eat, drink, and be merry  Fall from grace  Fight the good fight  Fire and brimstone  Flesh and blood  For everything there is a season  Forbidden fruit  Forgive them, for they know not what they do.  Go the extra mile  Golden calf: Materialism  Gospel  How are the mighty fallen!  I don’t know him from Adam.  In the twinkling of an eye  It is better to give than to receive  Jezebel  Let my people go!  Let not the sun go down on your wrath  Let there be light  Like a lamb led to the slaughter  Love thy neighbor as thyself  Man does not live by bread alone  Manna  Mark of the beast  Messiah  Mortal sin  My cup runneth over  No rest for the wicked  Noah and the Ark  O ye of little faith  Out of the mouth of babes  Philistine  Salt of the earth  Scapegoat  Sodom and Gomorrah  Spare the rod and spoil the child  Stumbling block  Suffering like Job  The apple of his eye  The blind leading the blind  The bread of life  The fat of the land  The love of money is the root of all evil  The powers that be  The root of the matter  The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak  The straight and narrow way  The writing on the wall  Thrown to the lions  Turn the other cheek  What God has joined together, let no man put asunder.  Wise king Solomon  Woe is me  Wolves in sheep’s clothing  You reap what you sow
http://mythologyteacher.com/documents/Biblical_Allusions.pdf
 
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