| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: Let not her penance exceed the king's commission.
SHERIFF.
An 't please your grace, here my commission stays,
And Sir John Stanley is appointed now
To take her with him to the Isle of Man.
GLOSTER.
Must you, Sir John, protect my lady here?
STANLEY.
So am I given in charge, may 't please your grace.
GLOSTER.
Entreat her not the worse in that I pray
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: Lycurgus.
[1] For the relation of this chapter to the rest of the treatise, see
Grote, ix. 325; Ern. Naumann, "de Xen. libro qui" {LAK. POLITEIA}
inscribitur, p. 18 foll.; Newmann, "Pol. Aristot." ii. 326.
[2] Harmosts.
[3] "Xenelasies," {xenelasiai} technically called. See Plut. "Lycurg."
27; "Agis," 10; Thuc. ii. 39, where Pericles contrasts the liberal
spirit of the democracy with Spartan exclusiveness; "Our city is
thrown open to the world, and we never expel a foreigner or
prevent him from seeing or learning anything of which the secret,
if revealed to an enemy, might profit him."--Jowett, i. 118.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: 1_Samuel 1: 12 And it came to pass, as she prayed long before the LORD, that Eli watched her mouth.
1_Samuel 1: 13 Now Hannah, she spoke in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice could not be heard; therefore, Eli thought she had been drunken.
1_Samuel 1: 14 And Eli said unto her: 'How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.'
1_Samuel 1: 15 And Hannah answered and said: 'No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit; I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I poured out my soul before the LORD.
1_Samuel 1: 16 Count not thy handmaid for a wicked woman: for out of the abundance of my complaint and my vexation have I spoken hitherto.'
1_Samuel 1: 17 Then Eli answered and said: 'Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant thy petition that thou hast asked of Him.'
1_Samuel 1: 18 And she said: 'Let thy servant find favour in thy sight.' So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad.
1_Samuel 1: 19 And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah; and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.
1_Samuel 1: 20 And it came to pass, when the time was come about, that Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she called his name Samuel: 'because I have asked him of the LORD.'
1_Samuel 1: 21 And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
1_Samuel 1: 22 But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband: 'Until the child be weaned, when I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and there abide for ever.'
The Tanach |
