Perhaps someone some time has said to you that you shouldn’t hide your light under a bushel. Or told you to set your house in order. Maybe you only survived a certain situation by the skin of your teeth. Perhaps it’s time you listened to the still small voice within.
All those everyday phrases come from one source ”“ a book whose four hundredth anniversary we celebrate this coming year, the King James Bible ”“ or the Authorised Version as it’s sometimes called. It wasn’t the first Bible in English by any means. But for all sorts of reasons it got into the bloodstream of the people of this country.