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.
旧约时代，神悦纳许多不同形式的献祭，因为它们都预表耶稣在十字架上，为我们所作的牺牲。
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.
讲英语的美国定居者当然是基督徒，但是《旧约》比《新约》更能表达自己，更能和自己在经历上有同感。
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《圣经》的《旧约》和《新约》中的各种行为准则经常是相互矛盾的，而两种矛盾的准则却都被大量地引用。

The Old Testament prophet had said, "All flesh is grass," an important verse for the new dispensation of Christianity.
旧约里说，“凡有血气的，尽都如草“,这是基督教教义新体系中的重要一条。
耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选
They decided to go back to what the Hebrew texts of the Old Testament, and not accept the Greek Jewish documents.
他们决定坚持,旧约的希伯来圣经原文，而不接受希腊语的犹太教文献。
耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选
It's a set of images that couldn't be more foreign or more alien to the prophetic mode of the Old Testament prophets.
这是一组不能再背离旧约先知的形象的,一组比喻了。
耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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.