Revelator vs Witness - What's the difference?
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A person who reveals, especially one who makes a divine revelation.
* 1994 [1945], William R. Newell, Romans: Verse-By-Verse ,
* 2000 , John A. Tvedtnes, Organize My Kingdom: A History of Restored Priesthood ,
* 2001 , Mark Dery, 24: Bit Rot'', Peter Ludlow (editor), ''Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias ,
* 2002 , Olivia Solomon, Jack Solomon (editors), "Honey in the Rock": The Ruby Pickens Tartt Collection of Religious Folk Songs from Sumter County, Alabama , 1st Paperback Edition,
Attestation of a fact or event; testimony.
* Shakespeare
One who sees or has personal knowledge of something.
* Shakespeare
* R. Hall
Someone called to give evidence in a court.
Something that serves as evidence; a sign.
* Bible, Genesis xxxi. 51, 52
To furnish proof of, to show.
* 1667': round he throws his baleful eyes / That '''witness'd huge affliction and dismay — John Milton, ''Paradise Lost , Book 1 ll. 56-7
To take as evidence.
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To see or gain knowledge of through experience.
* R. Hall
* Marshall
To present personal religious testimony; to preach at (someone) or on behalf of.
* 1998 , "Niebuhr, Reinhold", Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy , volume 6?, page 842
To see the execution of (a legal instrument), and subscribe it for the purpose of establishing its authenticity.
As nouns the difference between revelator and witness
is that revelator is a person who reveals, especially one who makes a divine revelation while witness is attestation of a fact or event; testimony.As a verb witness is
to furnish proof of, to show.revelator
English
Noun
(en noun)page 570,
- But it was Paul to whom the Lord revealed the whole doctrine of the mystery; and we firmly believe he thus became the revelator to all men of these glorious things connected with this mystery.
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- We noted in earlier chapters that the Twelve, beginning in Joseph Smith's day, were sustained as prophets, seers, and revelators , and that the Quorum of the Twelve were sustained as the First Presidency of the Church following the death of Brigham Young.
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- Alvin Toffler or George Gilder might have been more likely choices for back-page revelators , but Negroponte ponied up $75,000 in seed money when the Old Media barons were showing Wired founders Louis Rossetto and Jane Metcalfe the door.
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- A Revelator song notable for its classic uses of balance and incremental repetition, for its fusion of New Testament apocalyptic images, its folk diction and syntax fitted out as pulpit rhetoric and prophecy, and its sensitivity to simultaneously occurring dimensions of time and space.
- The vision of the speaker, superimposed on the apocalyptic vision of John the Revelator', includes all time and eternity: the remote past during which the ' Revelator , from exile on Patmos, wrote his letters to the seven churches; the immediate past of the dead mother who now dwells on the island with the prophet; the present of the "leader" or preacher who, as head of the church to which the speaker belongs, has received a "letter"—the Book of Revelation itself—from John; the eternal present in which the speaker and the prophet coexist spiritually; and the rapidly approaching future, the last days which John prophesied.
Synonyms
* (one who reveals) revealerSee also
* (qualifier)Anagrams
* ----witness
English
Noun
(es)- She can bear witness , since she was there at the time.
- May we with the witness of a good conscience, pursue him with any further revenge?
- As a witness to the event, I can confirm that he really said that.
- Thyself art witness I am betrothed.
- Upon my looking round, I was witness to appearances which filled me with melancholy and regret.
- The witness for the prosecution did not seem very credible.
- Laban said to Jacob, This heap be witness', and this pillar be ' witness .
Derived terms
* expert witness * eyewitness * key witness * principal witnessVerb
(es)- This certificate witnesses his presence on that day.
- He witnessed the accident.
- This is but a faint sketch of the incalculable calamities and horrors we must expect, should we ever witness the triumphs of modern infidelity.
- General Washington did not live to witness the restoration of peace.
- Instead, Niebuhr's God was the God witnessed to in the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament, the Bible of the Christian world.
- to witness a bond or a deed
