Eat to their heart’s content (箴言 13: 25) 吃得飽足

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

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

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

...there is truth in the remark. "without Tyndale[Bible translator], no Shakespeare"...

Prof. David Daniell, University College London
from The Bible in English

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

...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

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

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

Eat to their heart’s content (箴言 13: 25) 吃得飽足

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聖經經文

義人吃得飽足。惡人肚腹缺糧。

意思

吃得飽足。

來源及應用

此習語的意思是吃得飽足，但原本的意思是使人的靈魂滿足。在英王欽定本里，此習語為“eat to their soul’s content”，但在後期出版的新國際譯本里，則翻譯成“eat to their heart’s content”。此習語出自舊約箴言，道出義人追求神的話語，靈命的滿足，但不義的人卻追求物質，而且得不到飽腹。

例句

正在減磅的人是不會開懷大吃的

Keywords

content eat heart

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