It is indicated in the scriptural reading. From LearnThat.org.
President Lord was well known as the scriptural defender of the institution of slavery. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Of this it would be hard to find a better working model than what may be called scriptural English. From Wordnik.com. [The New Jerusalem] Reference
Even as a heretical product of the Jesuits, I recall the scriptural caution to "Judge not, lest ye be judged.". From Wordnik.com. [MAIL CALL] Reference
Seward failed to anticipate his ambition, he recalled the scriptural injunction, "Ask, and it shall be given you.". From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
I have brought you on thus far, in a simple and direct line of thought, to what may be called a scriptural and correct view of the change. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons for the New Life.] Reference
As, before this, she had always compared me with a goat, not a sheep, I presume that some kind of scriptural allusion was intended. From Wordnik.com. [The Saltmarsh Murders]
5 Which is, incidentally, how the theologian Wesley Kort defines "scriptural" reading. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Professor] Reference
To that effect there are many scriptural declarations. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
Robertson proclaimed that the notion had scriptural roots. From Wordnik.com. ['With God There's No Cap'] Reference
Union of sects is far from the scriptural unity of believers. From Wordnik.com. [Sanctification] Reference
Very ghastly creations are still existent of scriptural subjects. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
They may be weird; alien scriptural dictation might qualify there. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
Then the scriptural reckoning will bring the scriptural and satisfactory result. From Wordnik.com. [Sanctification] Reference
The scriptural book-covers are always worked on canvas in fine petit point stitches. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
In 1552 Charles V. appointed him professor of scriptural interpretation in the university. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
"That notion of me losing something is a fallacy," he says, and unleashes a scriptural analogy. From Wordnik.com. [PARTY LIKE IT'S 2004] Reference
There are many efforts today to effect a union among Christians, but union is not scriptural unity. From Wordnik.com. [Sanctification] Reference
Is it indeed scriptural and right to sanction habits fraught only with wounds, death, and perdition?. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
A mature view of scriptural authority requires us, as we have in the past, to move beyond literalism. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Joy] Reference
The pastor and the rabbi can, no doubt, find abstruse scriptural justifications for their angry actions. From Wordnik.com. [A Symposium: What Is Moderate Islam?] Reference
The foyer in which they stood contained an occasional table and a framed reproduction of scriptural art. From Wordnik.com. [The Outlaws] Reference
The historical literalist, like the scriptural literalist, makes the letter kill the spirit of the truth. From Wordnik.com. [America First Patriotic Readings] Reference
AS A MINISTER his preaching was scriptural, earnest, practical, and rich in the full exhibition of Gospel truth. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
The winged lions and bulls with the heads of men, the angels and cherubim, recall to mind passages of scriptural and pagan history. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.] Reference
And all are trained in the intricate historical-critical method of placing specific scriptural passages in their historical context. From Wordnik.com. [Rethinking The Resurrection] Reference
Susan Jacoby writes that the judge who struck down Proposition 8 demonstrated that scriptural literalism is an obstacle to progress. From Wordnik.com. [washingtonpost.com/onfaith] Reference
Limits of knowledge are not excuses for shutting down scientific inquiry and replacing it with answers based on scriptural authority. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Clayton, Ph.D.: Is Stephen Hawking Right About God?] Reference
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