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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

New wine in old bottles新酒旧瓶(路加福音5:36-37)

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圣经经文

“He told them this parable: “No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old one. If he does, he will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old. And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined.” “耶稣又设一个比喻,对他们说,没有人把新衣服撕下一块来,补在旧衣服上。若是这样,就把新的撕破了,并且所撕下来的那块新的,和旧的也不相称。也没有人把新酒装在旧皮袋里。若是这样,新酒必将皮袋裂开,酒便漏出来,皮袋也就坏了。”(路加福音5:36-37)

意思

现在,我们把这句话说成”旧酒新瓶”,意思是换汤不换药,把本已有的事情重新包装成新的东西。

来源及应用

你也许听说过“旧酒新瓶”这习语。事实上,这句话与原初的经文有点出入,圣经中耶稣是说“旧瓶新酒”。 当新酒倒进旧瓶中,旧瓶会由于太破旧不能盛装继续发酵的新酒而破烂。耶稣想告诉门徒,归信基督后会让他们的生命得著改变。信主后,老我已不足以承载新的生命了。

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