Britney 不在圣经中——这个名字源于离开家乡的人

  • 圣经中并没有“Britney”这个名字。它是“Brittany”的拼写变体,而“Brittany”是法国的一个地区,以五、六世纪因岛屿变得不安全而横渡海峡的布立吞人(Britons)命名。
  • 追根溯源,它的意思是“来自不列颠”——指代那些已经不在那里的人。
  • 流离失所是圣经的核心主题之一:亚伯拉罕离开他的国家(创世记 12:1),以色列人被教导要善待外邦人,因为他们自己也曾是外邦人(出埃及记 23:9),路得选择了一个新的民族(路得记 1:16)。
  • 希伯来书 11:13 将信徒称为“在世上是客旅,是寄居的”,彼得前书 2:11 则称基督徒为寄居的。
  • 圣经中的名字也在迁徙:耶稣(Jesus)是约书亚(Joshua)的希腊语形式,彼得(Peter)是一个翻译过来的亚兰语昵称,而保罗(Paul)则同时拥有两个名字。

Britney is not in the Bible. It is a respelling of Brittany, and Brittany is a place — named after people who had to leave home. Where the name comes from Brittany is the north-western corner of France. It carries that name because Britons crossed the Channel and settled there, largely in the fifth and sixth centuries, as their own island became unsafe. The region is Bretagne; their old home is Grande-Bretagne, Great Britain. The place name became a given…

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