nexus
was conceivable between the antecedent, the noise of the shout, and the consequent, the atmospheric discharge.
The Epistle Dedicatory
But this will be your glory and inexpugnable, if you cleave in truth and practice to God's holy service, worship and religion: that religion and faith of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is pure and undefiled before God even the Father, which is to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep yourselves unspotted from the world.
James i. 27.
Few mistranslations (unless indeed the word used by the translator of St. James meant differently from its present meaning), have led astray more than this rendering of
(outward or ceremonial worship,
cultus
, divine service,) by the English