Prologue 1
Prologue 2
1: In the beginning
2: Let there be light
3: Be fruitful and multiply
4: My brother's keeper?
5: Two by two
6: A coat of many colours
7: Fire and brimstone
8: Begat
9: Thou shalt not
10: Manna, milk, and honey
11: Eyes, teeth, and loins
12: What hath been wrought
13: Bread alone
14: How are the mighty fallen!
15: The skin of one's teeth
16: Out of the mouths of babes
17: Pride goes before a fall
18: Nothing new under the sun
19: Fly in the ointment
20: No peace for the wicked
21: Be horribly afraid
Interlude
22: Seeing the light
23: Eyes, ears, cheeks
24: Speaking, shouting, wailing, writing
25: Shaking, turning, moving
26: Many and few, first and last
27: Fights, foes, fools, friends
28: Praising famous men
29: Sheep, goats, swine
30: Money, wages, pearls, mites
31: Blessed are the servants
32: Heal thyself
33: Times and seasons
34: Birth, life, and death
35: Countries, kingdoms, Armageddon
36: Building houses, mansions, sepulchres
37: Millstones, crosses, yokes, pricks
38: Sowing seeds
39: Salt and wine
40: The law, judges, thieves, swords
41: Love and charity
42: Peace and patience, wrath, whore
Epilogue
Appendixes
Indexes
David Crystal, the world's greatest authority on the English
language. His books include Linguistics, Language and Religion, The
Stories of English, The Fight for English, and Just a Phrase I'm
Going through: my Life in Language. He is Honorary Professor of
Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor. He has written
extensively on religious language, including 'Linguistics and
Liturgy' for Church Quarterly and 'Language in Church' for
The Tablet.
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