Greetings everyone!
Was not at all sure where to post this collection of things that are NOT in the Bible.
I found it interesting but your experience may vary.
Anyways, here is the list of things that are often assumed to come from the Bible -
That’s Not in the Bible!
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Hmm, I would question how many of these examples are really commonly thought to come from the bible.
And some of the explanations given are themselves wrong. For instance, "All that glisters [sic] is not gold" is from the Merchant of Venice and is
not "cited" by Shakespeare as being in the bible. Also, the word "magi" in St Matthew's gospel
is in fact rendered as "wise men" in some translations, for example the Jerusalem Bible. It's true, though, that their number is not specified.
The (unbiblical) notion that the fruit of the tree in the Garden of Eden was an apple is interesting. It seems to go back to Medieval times, e.g. the words of "Adam Lay Ybounden". I don't buy their suggestion that it arises from a pun on "malum", since, as they themselves point out, the bible does not say the fruit was evil, or that it was an apple. My suspicion is that it came from paintings by N European artists, who would have depicted an apple tree since that was most familiar to them.