Chaucer.
Then the Lord of Manny read the scripture on the tomb, the which
was in Latin.
Ld. Berners.
2. The books of the Old and the New Testament, or of either of them;
the Bible; -- used by way of eminence or distinction, and chiefly in
the plural.
There is not any action a man ought to do, or to forbear, but the
Scripture will give him a clear precept or prohibition for it.
South.
Compared with the knowledge which the Scriptures contain, every
other subject of human inquiry is vanity.
Buckminster.