Laura 不在圣经中 — 它的意思是“月桂”

  • Laura 这个名字并未出现在圣经中,也没有希伯来语形式。它源自拉丁语 月桂, ,意为月桂树——这种常绿月桂的叶子会被编织成胜利者的花环。
  • 保罗曾准确地描述过这种花环:运动员们训练“不过是要得能坏的冠冕;但我们得的是不能坏的冠冕”(哥林多前书 9:25)。
  • 在临终前,他自己也宣称获得了那另一顶冠冕——“那美好的仗我已经打过了,当跑的路我已经跑尽了”(提摩太后书 4:7-8)。
  • 诗篇 1:3 提供了一个更好的意象:不是被剪下的花环,而是一棵栽种的树,“叶子也不枯干”,因为它所处的位置,使其常青。
  • 科尔多瓦的圣劳拉(Saint Laura of Córdoba)是一位九世纪的寡妇、修女兼院长,她在七十岁左右被摩尔人殉道杀害。

Laura is not in the Bible. It is Latin — from laurus, the laurel — and the Scriptures were written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek by people who had no reason to reach for a Roman word for a tree. But of all the names that are not in Scripture, this one comes closest to walking in. Because Paul knew exactly what a laurel was, and he had something to say about it. What does the name Laura mean? Laurel.…

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