Old Testament

基本解释

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，因爲它們都預表耶穌在十字架上，爲我們所作的犧牲。
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》的《舊約》和《新約》中的各種行爲準則經常是相互矛盾的，而兩種矛盾的準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.