Original link: http://www.ideobook.com/3226/bertolt-brecht-those-who-take-meat-from-table/ Translated by Huang Xueyuan Those who take the meat off the table teach people to be content. Those who enjoy tribute ask people to give of themselves. Those who are hungry describe to the hungry the great times to come. Those who led the empire to the abyss claimed that mortals were …
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Original link: http://www.ideobook.com/3222/bertolt-brecht-bad-time-for-poetry/ Of course I know: only happy people are popular. People love to hear his voice. His face is also pretty. The crippled tree in the yard showed that the soil was bad, but people passing by called it a cripple for good reason. I could see none of the green boats and …
Original link: http://www.ideobook.com/3220/bertolt-brecht-when-evil-doing-comes-like-falling-rain/ Huang Canran’s translation is like a person delivering an important letter to the reception after get off work: the reception is closed. Like a man trying to warn the city of an impending flood, but speaking another language. They don’t understand him. Like a beggar knocking on a door for the fifth …
Original link: http://www.ideobook.com/3203/new-heaven-new-earth/ This paragraph writes about the Last Judgment and the New Jerusalem/Kingdom Coming. Judgment, mishpat, at its root, is the judgment of human affairs or the politics of the world. God created the world, at the beginning of his administration, as “the judge of the earth” and “presiding over justice”, ya`aseh mishpat, Genesis …
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Original link: http://www.ideobook.com/3201/sickle/ Both Jesus and Paul believed that “the kingdom of heaven is at hand” and looked forward to the end of this world. How terrible the end can be, and how will the kingdom of heaven come? This is what the Book of Revelation is about. The Book of Revelation is the finale …
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Original link: http://www.ideobook.com/3200/christ/ Traditionally, thirteen of the New Testament’s epistles (Romans to Philemon) are listed under Paul’s name. The nineteenth century saw the rise of modern biblical studies in Germany. After years of research and analysis, scholars have eliminated six links, and attributed them to Paul’s posthumous writings, namely three “pastoral letters”, “1 Timothy”, “2 …
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Original link: http://www.ideobook.com/3198/being-form-god/ The Philippians, belonging to Paul’s “Tablet in Prison”, are in “strife” for being “in chains” for the preaching of the Gospel, Phil 1:7, 13, 30. However, this poem is generally considered to be not his original, but a reference to the carols of worship by predecessors or people of the time. The …
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Original link: http://www.ideobook.com/3196/death-swallowed-victory/ When it comes to preaching, Paul often says, “Whoever believes will be saved, the Jew first and the Greek after”, Romans 1:16, 2:9-10. This sequence is dazzling to people today, and the “politics” is very “incorrect”, but it was set by Jesus. The Son of Man assigned tasks to the Twelve Apostles, …
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Original link: http://www.ideobook.com/3193/love/ Paul, whose real name is Saul – this is the name of the first king of Israel, sha’ul, transliterated into Greek, Saulos, but has the meaning of “pretentious, squeamish” – was born in Asia Minor (now Turkey), the southeastern town of Wing Off, Tarsos, Acts 9:11. “According to the flesh,” of the …
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Original link: http://www.ideobook.com/3187/world-hate/ Academia generally says that the Gospel of John came out later than the Synoptic Gospel. One of the main arguments is the christology of the Father and Son expounded by the author, “The Father is in me and I am in the Father”, John 10:38, 14:10-11, the end-day anointed/Micah who has departed …
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Original link: http://www.ideobook.com/3174/love-your-enemies/ Most of Jesus’ teachings and allegories are straightforward prose. But Luke’s writing, sometimes with poetic rhetoric, gentle style, rich vocabulary, eruditissimus (Saint Jerome), is comparable to the solemnity of “Hebrews” quotations; one says he is the author of “New Testament” The only foreign race (“Greeks”) in the country. “Love your enemy”, commentators …
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Original link: http://www.ideobook.com/3172/soul-magnify-lord/ The story of the birth of Jesus is not found in Paul’s epistles and in the Gospel of Mark, perhaps not yet in circulation at that time (1950s and 1960s). Although the “Gospel of John” comes out late, because the Son of Man is equated with the holy word, “In the beginning …
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Original link:http://www.ideobook.com/3180/bible-as-poetry-bibliography/ This book is based on the original text of the translated poems and quotations, and I have translated the five holy books “Torah”, “Book of Wisdom”, “New Testament”, “Book of Prophets” and “Book of History” (2006, 2008, 2010, 2020, 2021) Identical: The Hebrew Bible uses the German Stuttgart version of Kittel-Kahle-Elliger-Rudolph Traditional Version …