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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

Whatsoever a man sows, so shall he reap人种的什么,收的也是什么(加拉太6:7

图片说明: Sowing
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圣经经文

“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.” “不要自欺,神是轻慢不得的。人种的是什么,收的也是什么。” (加拉太6:7)

意思

来源及应用

使徒保罗在他这封写给加拉太教會(在今希腊)信中提醒那里的人要活出基督的真道,因为在末日审判时要根据他们过去的所为。 谚语““you reap what you sow”也由此而來.(种什么收什么)。种好的收好的,播恶种的收恶果。在汉语中也有类似的谚语,如“种瓜得瓜,种豆得豆。”无论你过去行好的还是坏的,将来都要偿还。

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Keywords

reap    reward    sow   

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