Quick
Quick, a word which, by origin, and in early and many surviving uses, meant living, alive. It is common to Germanic languages, confer German keck, lively, Dutch kwik, and Danish kvik; confer also Danish kvaeg, cattle. The original root is seen in Sanskrit jiva; Latin vivus, living, alive; Greek bios, life.In its original sense the chief uses are such as the quick and the dead, of the Apostles' Creed, a quickset hedge, i.e. consisting of slips of living privet, thorn (NB. In Northern Europe, quick-thorn[?] refers to the tree hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna), that is commonly used for hedging[?] purposes) etc., the quick, i.e. the tender parts of the flesh under hard skin or particularly under the nail. The phrase quick with child is a conversion of with a quick. i.e. living child.
From the sense of having full vigour, living or lively qualities or movements, the word got its chief current meaning of possessing rapidity or speed of movement, mental or physical. It is thus used in the names of things which are in a constant or easily aroused condition of movement, e.g. quicksand, loose water-logged sand, readily yielding to weight or pressure, and quicksilver, the common name of the metal mercury.
from a 1911 encyclopedia
J. M. Robertson, to whom the author
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their own fancy so glorious a character as that of Jesus, and that it
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guesses or opinions of translators and copyists.
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write in Greek, they could not have been just plain fishermen. That
inferred from the fact.html">fact that they all write in Greek, and one of them
philosophy. Jesus was supposedly a Jew, his twelve apostles all
in Greek? If his fishermen disciples were capable of composition in
written in Greek--which was a rare accomplishment for a Jew, according
apostles of Jesus. But the fact that though these documents are in a
undated, goes to prove, we think, that their editors or authors wished
themselves.
In the next place it is equally an assumption that the portrait of
not a single saying of Jesus, I say this deliberately, which had not
Sometimes it is urged by pettifogging clergymen that, while it is true
was in a negative form. Confucius said, "Do not unto another what you
But every negative has its corresponding affirmation. Moreover, are
Golden Rule in as positive a form as we find it in the.
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