英语词汇potter-s field的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

potter’s field. The first cemetery known to be used as a pot- ter’s field, “a burial place for paupers, criminals and unknown persons,” was Aceldama, or “field of blood,” a barren piece of land near Jerusalem. The Bible tells us that it was originally used by potters and called Aceldama because it was bought with the blood money paid Judas. Believing he had sinned and betrayed innocent blood, Judas returned the 30 pieces of silver paid him for his treachery and went out and hanged himself, the elder he chose becoming known as the Judas tree. When the priests of the temple decided it was unlawful to return Ju- das’s silver to the treasury, since it was “the price of blood,” they used it to buy a field to bury strangers in. There are other ver- sions of the origins of the first potter’s field. Since the seventh century an area called Hakked-Dumm, “price of blood,” on a cliff southwest of Siloam, has been regarded as Aceldama, al- though the absence of clay in the area makes it an unlikely lo- cation for a potter’s field.

词汇	potter-s field
词源	potter’s field. The first cemetery known to be used as a pot- ter’s field, “a burial place for paupers, criminals and unknown persons,” was Aceldama, or “field of blood,” a barren piece of land near Jerusalem. The Bible tells us that it was originally used by potters and called Aceldama because it was bought with the blood money paid Judas. Believing he had sinned and betrayed innocent blood, Judas returned the 30 pieces of silver paid him for his treachery and went out and hanged himself, the elder he chose becoming known as the Judas tree. When the priests of the temple decided it was unlawful to return Ju- das’s silver to the treasury, since it was “the price of blood,” they used it to buy a field to bury strangers in. There are other ver- sions of the origins of the first potter’s field. Since the seventh century an area called Hakked-Dumm, “price of blood,” on a cliff southwest of Siloam, has been regarded as Aceldama, al- though the absence of clay in the area makes it an unlikely lo- cation for a potter’s field.
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