There is a time for everything 凡事都有定期，天下万务都有定时。”（传道书 3：1-8）

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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

There is a time for everything 凡事都有定期，天下万务都有定时。”（传道书 3：1-8）

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圣经经文

意思

There is a time for everything, 即凡事皆有定期的意思。

来源及应用

传道书是一本可以引导我们思考人生的书，学者一般认为此书由所罗门王所写。作者相信上帝在以有限的时间控制着万物。他在这些优美的章节中写道：“凡事都有定期，天下万务都有定时：生有时，死有时；栽种有时，拔出所栽种的也有时；杀戮有时，医治有时；拆毁有时，建造有时；哭有时，笑有时；哀恸有时，跳舞有时；抛掷石头有时，堆聚石头有时；怀抱有时，不怀抱有时；寻找有时，失落有时；保守有时，舍弃有时；撕裂有时，缝补有时；静默有时，言语有时；喜爱有时，憎恨有时；争战有时，和好有时。” 传道书的作者总结道：“神必审判义人和恶人，因为在那里，各样事物，一切工作，都有定时。”

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There is a time for everything 凡事都有定期，天下万务都有定时。”（传道书 3：1-8）

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