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The Bible has been the most influential text in all of Western culture. It's difficult to understand medieval or early modern or much of modern literature without knowing it...

Prof. Barbara Newman, Northwestern University
from 2006 Bible Literary project

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It's not that it's impossible to read some writers without a Biblical background, but that you would miss a whole dimension to their work.

Prof. Steven Goldsmith, University of California at Berkeley
from 2006 Bible Literary Project

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I can only say that if a student doesn't know any Bible literature, he or she will simply not understand whole elements of Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth

Prof. Robert Kiely, Harvard University
from 2006 Bible Literary Project

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...there is truth in the remark. "without Tyndale[Bible translator], no Shakespeare"...

Prof. David Daniell, University College London
from The Bible in English

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You can't really study Western literature intelligently or coherently without starting with the Bible.

Prof. Gerald L. Bruns, University of Notre Dame
from 2006 Bible Literary Project

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...a familiar understanding of Christian doctrine in historical perspective thus contributes to a fuller appreciation of Shakespeare's art, but Shakespeare's art

Prof. Roland M. Frye
from Shakespeare and the Christian Doctrine

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In English tradition and also for an American tradition begun by Puritan writers, a knowledge of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament is even more crucial than classical references.

Prof. Ulrich Knoefplmacher, Princeton University
from 2006 Bible Literary Project

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There is no book more important for our culture than the Bible, and it is fundametal to the study of English literature and language.

Prof. David Jasper and Prof. Stephen Prickett
from the Bible and literature

Fall by the wayside 落在路邊(馬太福音13:3-8 KJV英文欽定本)

圖片說明: Parable
圖片版權: V.

聖經經文

“……還有,他對他們說了很多(聖經中的)寓言故事。他說,你看阿。一個播種者在去播種的路上。當他播種的時候,有些種子會落在路旁。”(馬太福音13:3-4)

意思

fall by the wayside 的意思,就是放棄一件事。

來源及應用

耶穌平日愛用寓言說道。當時,猶太人和亞拉伯人很流行說寓言。透過活生生的寓言,聽眾更能明白屬靈的教導。耶穌引用上述的寓言說明一個道理-神的話就像種子一樣,有些人留心地聽進去并接受了基督,有些卻無心裝載,如同撒在路邊的種子枯萎。

例句

At first he did well, but after a few setbacks he fell by the wayside. 他一開始時表現不俗,但遭遇一些挫折後就放棄了。

Keywords

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