| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: You left poor Henry at the Bishop's palace,
And ten to one, you'll meet him in the Tower.
KING EDWARD.
'T is even so; yet you are Warwick still.
GLOSTER.
Come, Warwick, take the time; kneel down, kneel down.
Nay, when? strike now, or else the iron cools.
WARWICK.
I had rather chop this hand off at a blow,
And with the other fling it at thy face,
Than bear so low a sail, to strike to thee.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ion by Plato: better able to judge of the propriety of these lines?
ION: The art of medicine.
SOCRATES: And when Homer says,
'And she descended into the deep like a leaden plummet, which, set in the
horn of ox that ranges in the fields, rushes along carrying death among the
ravenous fishes (Il.),'--
will the art of the fisherman or of the rhapsode be better able to judge
whether these lines are rightly expressed or not?
ION: Clearly, Socrates, the art of the fisherman.
SOCRATES: Come now, suppose that you were to say to me: 'Since you,
Socrates, are able to assign different passages in Homer to their
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Deuteronomy 29: 6 (29:5) Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink; that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 29: 7 (29:6) And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them.
Deuteronomy 29: 8 (29:7) And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.
Deuteronomy 29: 9 (29:8) Observe therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may make all that ye do to prosper.
Deuteronomy 29: 10 (29:9) Ye are standing this day all of you before the LORD your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,
Deuteronomy 29: 11 (29:10) your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in the midst of thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water;
Deuteronomy 29: 12 (29:11) that thou shouldest enter into the covenant of the LORD thy God--and into His oath--which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day;
Deuteronomy 29: 13 (29:12) that He may establish thee this day unto Himself for a people, and that He may be unto thee a God, as He spoke unto thee, and as He swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Deuteronomy 29: 14 (29:13) Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
Deuteronomy 29: 15 (29:14) but with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day--
The Tanach |
