Old Testament

基本解釋

In the Old Testament, God took pleasure in the many sacrifices of worship because they foretold of Jesus' sacrifice for us on the cross.
舊約時代，神悅納許多不同形式的獻祭，因爲(wèi)它們都預(yù)表耶穌在十字架上，爲(wèi)我們所作的犧牲。
The English settlers were Christians, of course, but it was the Old Testament, much more than the New, that spoke to them and their experience.
講英語的美國定居者儅然是基督徒，但是《舊約》比《新約》更能表達自己，更能和自己在經(jīng)歷上有同感。
For example, the Old Testament and the New Testament in the Bible frequently contradict each other with various rules of conduct, yet both are quoted during mass.
例如，在《聖經(jīng)》的《舊約》和《新約》中的各種行爲(wèi)準(zhǔn)則經(jīng)常是相互矛盾的，而兩種矛盾的準(zhǔn)則卻都被大量地引用。

The Old Testament prophet had said, "All flesh is grass," an important verse for the new dispensation of Christianity.
舊約裡說，“凡有血氣的，盡都如草“,這是基督教教義新躰系中的重要一條。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選
They decided to go back to what the Hebrew texts of the Old Testament, and not accept the Greek Jewish documents.
他們決定堅持,舊約的希伯來聖經(jīng)原文，而不接受希臘語的猶太教文獻。
耶魯公開課 - 新約課程節(jié)選
It's a set of images that couldn't be more foreign or more alien to the prophetic mode of the Old Testament prophets.
這是一組不能再背離舊約先知的形象的,一組比喻了。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選

Often ill, he began to devour books—the Old Testament, Shakespeare, the great 19th-century Russians.
ECONOMIST: Obituary: Saul Bellow

The Old Testament is the first part of the Bible. It deals especially with the relationship between God and the Jewish people.