| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Open Letter on Translating by Dr. Martin Luther: is so sever offensive, and scandalous that no amount of revision
can help it. How much more might people learn from "that they
need not do any good works", when all they hear is about the
preaching about the works themselves, sated in such a clear
strong way: "No works", "without works", "not by works"! If it is
not offensive to preach "without works", "not by works"! If it is
not offensive to preach "without works", "not by works"!, "no
works", why is it offensive to preach "by faith alone"?
Still more offensive is that St. Paul does not reject just
ordinary works, but works of the law! It follows that one could
take offense at that all the more and say that the law is
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: my own, too! If you on'y knew what I do dream sometimes o'
nights quite against my wishes, you'd say I had my struggles!"
(Anny, too, had grown rather serious of late, her lover having
jilted her.)
"What shall I do about it?" urged Arabella morbidly.
"You could take a lock of your late-lost husband's hair,
and have it made into a mourning brooch, and look at it every
hour of the day."
"I haven't a morsel!--and if I had 'twould be no good....
After all that's said about the comforts of this religion,
I wish I had Jude back again!"
Jude the Obscure |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Witch, et. al by Anton Chekhov: novelty of this man. His chest was broad and powerful, his hands
were slender and well formed, and his graceful, muscular legs
were much comelier than Savely's stumps. There could be no
comparison, in fact.
"Though I am a long-skirted devil," Savely said after a brief
interval, "they've no business to sleep here. . . . It's
government work; we shall have to answer for keeping them. If you
carry the letters, carry them, you can't go to sleep. . . . Hey!
you!" Savely shouted into the outer room. "You, driver. What's
your name? Shall I show you the way? Get up; postmen mustn't
sleep!"
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