One possibility that comes to mind is that the word choices are based on a survey of actual sermons to see what words came up frequently, which would then be subject to the vocabulary whims of the sermons' author(s). (Particularly if they used only one author's sermons.)
Have you ever read a novel called The Shakespeare Thief? It's about a boy in Elizabethan England who was taught shorthand so he could record sermons, who is then hired by an unscrupulous theatre producer to help bootleg Shakespeare's plays.
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Date: 2012-03-08 12:27 am (UTC)Have you ever read a novel called The Shakespeare Thief? It's about a boy in Elizabethan England who was taught shorthand so he could record sermons, who is then hired by an unscrupulous theatre producer to help bootleg Shakespeare's plays.