Lexicographical Neighbors of Corbans
Literary usage of Corbans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850)
"... they thought they did well enough to pretend corbans, and let their father
starve. 3. The scribes and pharisees placed their righteousness in negatives; ..."
2. The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine (1874)
"Here there were thirteen chests, formed like trumpets, narrow below and broad
above, placed for the purpose of receiving the " corbans " or gifts for ..."
3. Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished Irishmen: From the Earliest Times to by James Wills (1842)
"And it must be allowed, that the corbans were mostly laymen in the time of Colgan,
who deposes to the fact. But in reasoning back to their earlier history, ..."
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