By the fruits you will know them 从它结的果你可以认出它（马太7：20）

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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

By the fruits you will know them 从它结的果你可以认出它（马太7：20）

图片说明： By their fruits you will know them
图片版权： V. Gilbert and Arlisle F. Beers

圣经经文

“Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.” (Matthew 7:20) King James Version “凡不结好果子的，就要砍下来，扔到火里去。所以，凭着他们的果子，就可以认出他们来。”（马太7：20KJV）

意思

这个谚语是指一个人的坏念头很容易从他或她的舉止中看出来。

来源及应用

在他著名的山上宝训中，耶稣提醒百姓要小心假先知。一个真正的先知是依据圣经和基督的教导来传播真理的，假先知却打着虔诚的幌子，篡改基督教的教义。他们结的果子，他们做的事情，是应该被“扔到火里的。”

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Keywords

deeds fruits intention know

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By the fruits you will know them 从它结的果你可以认出它（马太7：20）

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