| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: places for themselves;
JOB 3:15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with
silver:
JOB 3:16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants
which never saw light.
JOB 3:17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be
at rest.
JOB 3:18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of
the oppressor.
JOB 3:19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from
his master.
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cratylus by Plato: more than there is an abstract tree, but only languages in various stages
of growth, maturity, and decay. Nor do other logical distinctions or even
grammatical exactly correspond to the facts of language; for they too are
attempts to give unity and regularity to a subject which is partly
irregular.
We find, however, that there are distinctions of another kind by which this
vast field of language admits of being mapped out. There is the
distinction between biliteral and triliteral roots, and the various
inflexions which accompany them; between the mere mechanical cohesion of
sounds or words, and the 'chemical' combination of them into a new word;
there is the distinction between languages which have had a free and full
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Open Letter on Translating by Dr. Martin Luther: And still the asses would pawn of on us this intolerable tyranny
of their own wickedness as a willing act and example of
Christendom - and thereby acquit themselves!
But this is getting too long. Let this be enough of an answer to
your questions for now. More another time. Excuse this long
letter. Christ our Lord be with us all. Amen.
Martin Luther,
Your good friend.
The Wilderness, September 8, 1530
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This text was translated for Project Wittenberg by Dr. Gary Mann
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