Judgment Book

American  

noun

Theology.

1. the book from which all persons will be judged at the Last Judgment, containing a full record of their acts.

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Example Sentences

"An' then he goes on with th' finest love song you ever heard, endin' up: "... 'a love that shall not die Till th' sun grows cold, An' th' stars are old, An' th' leaves of th' Judgment Book unfold!'

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Till the sun grows cold, And the stars are old, And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.

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There was a fanatic ardor in the last phrase: “Till the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold!”

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Ever since the Novel reached the stage of development where it was demonstrated to be the most ingenious vehicle yet designed for conveying the protean thought and fancy of man, there has stood in the judgment book of Public Opinion the decree that novel-reading was a vice.

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There flashed across Mary's mind the remembrance of a conversation she had overheard on the porch at The Locusts one night, and of Phil's voice singing to Lloyd, to the accompaniment of a guitar: "Till the stars are old, And the sun grows cold, And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold."

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