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Call heaven and earth to witness

Bible
Bible

Phraseologism: Call heaven and earth to witness.

Meaning: About an attempt to convince someone of something, which is accompanied by all sorts of redundant (and therefore suspicious, unconvincing) oaths.

Origin: The original source is the Bible. The Gospel of Matthew contains Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, in which he speaks of the sin of all kinds of oaths (ch. 5, vv. 34-35): the earth, because it is His footstool, nor Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King."

Random phraseology:

Gordian knot.

Meaning:

Difficult, confusing question, difficult task.

Origin:

According to a legend told by ancient historians, the Phrygians, who were ordered by the oracle to choose the king of the one who first met them with a cart on the way to the temple of Zeus, met with a simple farmer Gordius and proclaimed him king. The cart that changed his fate, Gordius placed in the temple of Zeus and attached a yoke to its drawbar, tying an extremely tangled knot. According to the oracle, the person who can unravel this knot will become the ruler of all Asia. Alexander the Great cut him with his sword.

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