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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

In the twinkling of an eye 一眨眼,转眼间 (哥林多前书1 15:51-52)

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圣经经文

“Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed-in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.” (1 Corinthians 15:51-52) “我如今把一件奥秘的事告诉你们。我们不是都要睡觉,乃是都要改变,就在一霎时,眨眼之间,号筒好痛末次吹响的时候。因号筒要响,死人要复活成为不朽坏的,我们也要改变。” (哥林多前书1 15:51-52)

意思

“in the twinkling of an eye”如果某些事在转眼间就发生了,那么这就表示事情发生得很快。

来源及应用

哥林多前书1是由使徒一个叫保罗所的使徒写的,他在迫害基督徒期间的时候遇见了上帝,于是他从此归的信基督仰从此被改变。在这本书中,保罗提醒我们:肉体和精神是不能继承天国的。当上帝再次降临的时候,我们会容易腐烂化的身体就会立刻被改变更新,使得我们霎时间就进入了天国。

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Keywords

eye    happen    quick    twinkling   

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