英语词汇remove take the scales from your eyes的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	remove take the scales from your eyes
词源	remove (take) the scales from your eyes. Realize the truth, wake up, stop being deceived about someone or something. This ancient expression is from the Bible (Acts 9:18): “And im- mediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales; and he [Saul, later St. Paul] received sight forthwith, and was baptized.”
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