HIGH PLACEとは意味・読み方・使い方

high place (plural high places)

(biblical) A place of worship.
- a. 1728 (date written), Isaac Newton, “Introduction Concerning the Compilers of the Books of the Old Testament”, in Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John. […], London: […] J. Darby and T. Browne […]; and sold by J. Roberts […], published 1733, →OCLC, part I (Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel), page 3:
  
  […] Jehoſaphat took avvay the high places, and in the third year of his reign ſ ent ſome of his Princes, and of the Prieſts and Levites, to teach in the cities of Judah: […]
  
  That is, places for the worship of idols.
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- 1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Chapter XLV:
  
  Those who sit in the high places must be hard, yet have I discovered that it is hard to be hard. For instance, easy enough was it to drop Steve Roberts as he was in the act of shooting at me.


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