How I finally made peace with a passage I avoided for years.
A short detour. There is a passage elsewhere with the same shape though no direct connection, and setting them next to each other makes the writers' different concerns visible.(イエスの語録 P.Oxy 5575 1:1)
Now set it back into its own century. What was the community that first heard this actually worried about? Simply imagining that changes the temperature of every line.(申命記 19:15-16)
16万物は、天にあるものも地にあるものも、見えるものも見えないものも、位も主権も、支配も権威も、みな御子にあって造られたからである。これらいっさいのものは、御子によって造られ、御子のために造られたのである。
コロサイ人への手紙 1:16(口語訳(日本語))
Pull a single verse out of its paragraph and you can make it say almost anything. This particular verse has been made to say a great deal. Which is precisely why it deserves to be read with what stands on either side of it.(シラ書(集会の書) 27:20)
The first time I read this passage I understood nothing at all. I carried that incomprehension around for years, and then one afternoon it turned slightly, the way a key turns, and something opened. What follows is an attempt to describe the turn.
Pull a single verse out of its paragraph and you can make it say almost anything. This particular verse has been made to say a great deal. Which is precisely why it deserves to be read with what stands on either side of it.(イザヤ書 3:23-24)
7ペリシテ人おそれていひけるは神陣營にいたる又いひけるは鳴呼われら禍なるかな今にいたるまで斯ることなかりき
8ああ我等禍なるかな誰かわれらを是らの強き神の手よりすくひいださんや此等の神は昔し諸の災を以てエジプト人を曠野に撃し者なり
9ペリシテ人よ強くなり豪傑のごとく爲せヘブル人がかつて汝らに事へしごとく汝らこれに事ふるなかれ豪傑のごとく爲して戰へよ
10かくてペリシテ人戰ひしかばイスラエル人やぶれて各々其天幕に逃かへる戰死はなはだ多くイスラエルの歩兵の仆れし者三萬人なりき
11又神の櫃は奪はれエリの二人の子ホフニとピネハス殺さる
サムエル記上 4:7-11(文語訳(日本語))
Now set it back into its own century. What was the community that first heard this actually worried about? Simply imagining that changes the temperature of every line.
10しかし王は言った、「ゼルヤの子たちよ、あなたがたと、なんのかかわりがあるのか。彼がのろうのは、主が彼に、『ダビデをのろえ』と言われたからであるならば、だれが、『あなたはどうしてこういうことをするのか』と言ってよいであろうか」。
サムエル記下 16:10(口語訳(日本語))
A short detour. There is a passage elsewhere with the same shape though no direct connection, and setting them next to each other makes the writers' different concerns visible.
1[...] to the lawyers ["...all] the wrongdoers [...] and not me [...] how does he do it?"
知られざる福音書(エゲルトン・パピルス2) 1:1(Mattison 訳(英語))
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