单词 | to be born again |
释义 | > as lemmasto be born again b. to be born again: to experience spiritual rebirth; to convert to Christianity. Cf. born-again adj. 1a.Now often associated with evangelical Christianity. [Quot. OE shows use of Old English eftboren (compare eft adv.) as an element-by-element gloss of use of classical Latin renātus renate adj. in the Vulgate, in the same context as in quot. c1384.] ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > soul > regeneration > regenerate [verb (intransitive)] to be born againc1384 regenerate1606 OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: John iii. 5 Nisi quis renatus fuerit ex aqua et spiritu : buta hua eftboren sie of uætre & gaste.] c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) John iii. 3 But a man schal be born aȝen [a1425 L.V. borun aȝen; 1526 Tyndale boren a newe; 1611 King James borne againe], he may not se the kyngdom of God. 1607 H. Ainsworth Communion of Saincts x. 140 We must be turned and become as litle children; even born againe, or els we cannot see the kingdom of God. 1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost ii. 35 We are born again, we are regenerate, we are sons of God. 2000 D. Nicholl in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 181/1 Dostoevsky had been born again into Christ through the Russian folk whose sufferings he shared in the prison camp, so that his sense of Christianity had fused the age-old faith of the peasantry with the insights of a modern psychologist. < as lemmas |
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