Making a spectacle of yourself 自分が見せ物になる (コリント人への手紙Ｉ4:9)

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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

Making a spectacle of yourself 自分が見せ物になる (コリント人への手紙Ｉ4:9)

絵の説明: クリスチャンを滅ぼすライオン
著作権: V. Gilbert and Arlisle F. Beers

聖書節

“私は、こう思います。神は私たち使徒を、死罪に決まった者のように、行列のしんがりとして引き出されました。こうして私たちは、御使いにも人々にも、この世の見せ物になったのです。”

意味

自分を見せ物にするということは、人の前で醜態を晒すということです。

起源と適用

ギリシャの主要都市であるコリントにある教会に宛てられた手紙のなかで、弟子パウロはクリスチャンは世界中の人々の前に立ち、苦しみを表したと述べました。クリスチャンはまるでローマの公共の場で死刑を見せ物にされた罪人のようでした。初期のクリスチャンは見せ物になるよう、ローマの劇場で処刑されていま

例

パーティーで自分を見せ物にしてしまいました

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