聖書におけるナイフの意味：犠牲、契約、そして言葉

The Bible gives the knife no single symbol. Its knives are working tools: the knife Abraham carried up the mountain with Isaac, the flint knives of circumcision, the knives of the temple, a scribe’s penknife. For a larger meaning Scripture reaches for the sword, and the word of God is “sharper than any twoedged sword” (Hebrews 4:12). The best-known knife in the Bible never cut anyone. “And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son,”…