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     • the quick and the dead Those alive and dead alike. Often used figuratively. ("Quick" has the archaic meaning of "alive" in this phrase.)
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   What does the phrase 'the quick and the Dead' mean?

   • The phrase "the quick and the dead" gives a clue about what they meant. This phrase is from the Bible's New Testament, where the Day of Judgment is described as the time when Jesus will return from heaven to judge everyone, both the quick and the dead, determining who will have eternal life and who will be damned.

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   What does the Bible say about the quick and the dead?

   • The quick and the dead are referred to several times in the Bible. These texts relate to judgment, with the admonition that only the divine may judge the quick and the dead. The first English citation of the phrase is consequently from the 1385 Wycliffe Bible: And thei schulen yyue resoun to hym, that is redi to deme the quyke and the deed.

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   Is the word 'quick sand' dead?

   • The word has largely died out now, although we still retain the meaning in words like ‘quicksand’, that is, sand that moves and has ‘life’, or the bubbling and gurgling ‘quicklime’. The quick and the dead are referred to several times in the Bible.

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   What is the idiom 'living and the dead'?

   • The living and the dead, as in The explosion was loud enough to wake the quick and the dead. Although quick has been used for "living" since the 9th century a.d., it survives only in this idiom and in cut to the quick, and may be obsolescent. The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

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   What's the meaning of the phrase 'The quick and the dead'? All souls – alive or dead. What's the origin of the phrase 'The quick and the dead'? This rather archaic phrase has been used as the title of various films and plays in recent years, notably the 1995 film, starring Sharon Stone.

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   The phrase "the quick and the dead" gives a clue about what they meant. This phrase is from the Bible's New Testament, where the Day of Judgment is described as the time when Jesus will return from heaven to judge everyone, both the quick and the dead, determining who will have eternal life and who will be damned.

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   quick and the dead. The living and the dead, as in The explosion was loud enough to wake the quick and the dead. Although quick has been used for "living" since the 9th century a.d., it survives only in this idiom and in cut to the quick, and may be obsolescent. See also: and, dead, quick.

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   Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version. For this is the reason the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they might be judged according to human standards in regard to the body, but live according to God in regard to the spirit. New Living Translation.

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   May 28, 2024 · The meaning of THE QUICK AND THE DEAD is living people and dead people.

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   Specifically it warns that those who sin, both the quick and the dead, will be judged by Jesus Christ. In other words, it implies that God is able to act on the sins of a person whether that person is alive ( quick) or has passed into the afterlife ( dead ).

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   The quick and the dead is a term that describes all people, alive and dead. In this case, the word quick describes something that is alive, that stirs with life. The term the quick and the dead is found several times in earlier translations of the bible, for example: “I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall ...