词组 | he who lives by the sword dies by the sword |
释义 | ☞ The phrase was originally used with allusion to an incident in the Garden of Gethsemane. When the men came to arrest Jesus, one of his disciples drew his sword and cut off the ear of 'the servant of the high priest', earning this rebuke from Jesus: 'all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword' (Matthew 26:52). In contemporary versions sword is sometimes replaced by gun, bomb, etc. |
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