알곡과 그 쭉정이를 구별하다 (마태복음 3:12)

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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

알곡과 그 쭉정이를 구별하다 (마태복음 3:12)

성경구절

“손에 키를 들고 자기의 타작 마당을 정하게 하사 알곡은 모아 곳간에 들이고 쭉정이는 꺼지지 않는 불에 태우 시리라”

뜻

쭉정이에서 알곡을 분리한다는 것은, 질 나쁜 것을 좋은 것에서부터 분리해 낸다 라는 의미입니다.

기원과 적용

탈곡할 때, 쭉정이는 알곡에서 분리되어 버립니다. 이 표현은 성경에서 약함과 잘못된 교리를 진리에서 구분해 낸다는 비유로 쓰입니다.

예시

Every year we pick our suppliers at the trade fair so that we can separate the wheat from the chaff. 매년, 우리는 무역박람회에서 납품업자들을 정해왔기 때문에, 우리는 알곡에서 쭉정이를 구분해 낼 수 있었습니다.

Keywords

chaff high low separate wheat

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알곡과 그 쭉정이를 구별하다 (마태복음 3:12)

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