not in the biblical sense

biblical | American Dictionary

biblical
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈbɪb·lɪ·kəl/
in or relating to the Bible:
Isaac is a biblical name.

Examples of biblical

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Sermons in general reveal the widespread and multifarious use of the vocabulary of disease that was usually linked with biblical verses of specific medical character.
On each page four biblical texts and four commentaries were placed either side of eight richly illustrated pictures in medallions.
When he has nothing more exciting to write about than his own health, he spices the letters up with biblical jocularities.
The first encounter with biblical evidence foreshadows much of what follows.
The biblical orientation is, of course, prominent, but in addition he combines it with logic and metaphysics.
From this perspective the biblical passages are appropriated and musically framed to express the human psychology of loss, grief, commemoration and consolation.
Where scientific theories ran into troubles, where they became contradictory or aporetic, the biblical account provided guidance.
Applying a new historical criticism, he showed that biblical teaching and law were irrelevant for a modern pluralistic state and its intellectual life.
It is clear that the question of biblical inspiration was foremost at the time.
Whatever their differences over predestination they employed the same arguments to support toleration, arguments turning on biblical hermeneutics.
Some of them look somewhat like eagles, others like geese, but there is no obvious biblical symbolism or mythical significance to support the identification.
As the biblical case demonstrates, then, there is nothing curious about samaritan responsibilities requiring one to per form a specific course of action.
The biblical authority vested in these scriptural representations of heredity has not been lost on its champions.
Such a construction denied the "polyphonic" nature of tradition that historically allowed for a plurality of voices in biblical interpretation.
Implicitly or explicitly, a pervasive motif is the relation between the philosophical and the biblical.
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