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sealed book
noun
- something beyond understanding and therefore unknown.
sealed book
noun
- another term for closed book
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of sealed book1
Example Sentences
A similar explanation of fossils was given by the engineer-artist Leonardo de Vinci in the fifteenth century, and by the potter Bernard Palissy, in the sixteenth century; but thence onward, for more than a hundred years, the earth was as a sealed book to man.
The revelation still remains, therefore, a sealed book until "after the resurrection."
Even distant Europe was no sealed book to them.
Ely, rising majestic from the plain; the very singular and impressive run along the sandy coast from Cromer to Wells-next-Sea; the road on thence to Hunstanton and Lynn; the glorious expanses of heath in many parts of Norfolk and Suffolk; the extraordinary hedges of fir along the roadside near Elvedon and in many another place—all these things, and a score besides—were as a sealed book to me.
The ˜yÐÄvlog of God was as a sealed Book, and she had no spiritual enjoyment, which she much deplored; also, the visits of our dear Pastor and her uncle failed to give any comfort.
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