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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

Separate the wheat from the chaff (马太福音3:12)

图片说明: Wheat
图片版权: V.

圣经经文

“His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.” “他手里拿着簸箕,要扬净他的场,把麦子收在仓里;把糠用不灭的火烧尽了。” (马太福音3:12)

意思

Separate the wheat from the chaff的意思是把高端的东西与低劣的分开。

来源及应用

糠(chaff)是农夫簸箕后剩下的残余物,是没有价值的东西。在圣经里,糠被喻作假教义。Separate the wheat from the chaff意旨把真理从错误的教义分别出来。 糠的另一含义是不值一钱的东西。

例句

Every year we pick our suppliers at the trade fair so that we can separate the wheat from the chaff. 我们须到交易会选择供应商,届时它们的品质便会高下立见。

Keywords

chaff    high    low    separate    wheat   

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