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单词 the broad way to hell
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the broad way to hell
2. In figurative contexts (with allusion to Matthew 7:14): a course in life which is easy to take but which will ultimately lead a person to ruin or damnation. Esp. in the broad way to hell and variants.Chiefly as two words.
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OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. (headings to readings) xxiii Per latam uiam multos, per angustam paucos introire testatur : ðerh brad woeg monige ðerh neruu uel unrum hwon uel unmonige inngae getrymes.
a1391 J. Clanvow Two Ways (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1975) 57 (MED) Woo is hym þat is founden in þe broode wey whanne he shal passe out of þis world.
?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 249 (MED) Þei..suffren pore men..to goo þe brode weie to helle.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) viii. §7. 29 Swa by the brad way thai ga till hell.
?1510 T. More tr. G. F. Pico della Mirandola Lyfe I. Picus sig. b.iv To pull him bak in to ye voluptuouse brode way yt ledith to helle.
1669 O. Sansom in Acct. Life (1710) 70 With earnest desires, that you would consider your own States and Standings, every one of you, whether you are not in the Broad way.
1836 T. Dick Ess. on Sin & Evils Covetousness viii. 289 Another will rather go in the broad way to hell, than be out of the fashion of the gay world.
1901 Signs of Times 15 Oct. 621/2 Neither does walking in the broad way produce eternal death, but it does bring destruction to our joys and comforts of our Redeemer and his kingdom.
2011 L. Troyer Church in Society 244 Sparing every godly person from the toxic effects of sin that dooms the multitudes on the broad way to destruction.
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