heathendom

基本解釋

All the sin of heathendom, all the sin of Christendom, is but the outgrowth of the one root - God de-throned, self.
所有非基督徒及基督徒的罪都出于同一根源-就是在人們心中貶抑上帝、高抬自己。
It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written.
大家知道，僧侶們曾經在古代異教經典的手抄本上面寫上荒誕的天主教圣徒傳。
My one sufficient object was to greet that pious friend of mine, the Apostle Eliot, and rejoice with him over the many precious souls he hath won from heathendom!
我唯一的目的是去問候我的一位虔誠的朋友，艾略特使徒，并和他一起歡慶他從邪教中爭取過來的眾多可貴的靈魂！