The Bible Said It First

Some of the English language’s most familiar sayings and words come from the Bible - and from the Old Testament in particular. For instance, the word ‘scapegoat’ was coined by the 16th-century English scholar William Tyndale in his translation of the Old Testament. Other sayings derived from the Old Testament include: Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or “the leopard his spots”? Come not near to me; for I am “ “holier than thou”. He kept him as “the apple of his eye”.