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摘要
- Leslie is not in the Bible. It is a Scottish surname from a place in Aberdeenshire, probably from Gaelic leas celyn, “garden of holly.”
- It became a given name in the nineteenth century and was mostly masculine in America until the 1940s.
- Holly is evergreen, armed, and fruits in the dead of the year; Christian tradition reads the crown of thorns in its leaves and blood in its berries.
- Scripture happens in gardens: Eden, where God placed the man he had formed (Genesis 2:8); Gethsemane, whose name means oil press; and the garden where Mary mistook the risen Christ for the gardener (John 20:15).
- Song of Songs 4:12 calls a person “a garden locked up” — cultivated and walled, so that things can grow.
参考书目（点击显示）
Sources: Behind the Name entry for Leslie (Scottish surname from a place in Aberdeenshire, probably Gaelic leas celyn, “garden of holly”); Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (Genesis 2:8; John 20:15; Song of Songs 4:12).
