| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: 1_Kings 1: 14 Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.'
1_Kings 1: 15 And Bath-sheba went in unto the king into the chamber. --Now the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the king.--
1_Kings 1: 16 And Bath-sheba bowed, and prostrated herself unto the king. And the king said: 'What wouldest thou?'
1_Kings 1: 17 And she said unto him: 'My lord, thou didst swear by the LORD thy God unto thy handmaid: Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.
1_Kings 1: 18 And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and thou, my lord the king, knowest it not.
1_Kings 1: 19 And he hath slain oxen and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar, the priest, and Joab the captain of the host; but Solomon thy servant hath he not called.
1_Kings 1: 20 And thou, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee, that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.
1_Kings 1: 21 Otherwise it will come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.'
1_Kings 1: 22 And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet came in.
1_Kings 1: 23 And they told the king, saying: 'Behold Nathan the prophet.' And when he was come in before the king, he bowed down before the king with his face to the ground.
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Apology by Xenophon: my head and pressed the hair upon my neck--he had a way of playing
with my air; and then he said: 'To-morrow, Phaedo, I suppose that
these fair locks of yours will be severed.'"
It is also said that, seeing Anytus[55] pass by, Socrates remarked:
"How proudly the great man steps; he thinks, no doubt, he has
performed some great and noble deed in putting me to death, and all
because, seeing him deemed worthy of the highest honours of the state,
I told him it ill became him to bring up his so in a tan-yard.[56]
What a scamp the fellow is! he appears not to know that of us two
whichever has achieved what is best and noblest for all future time is
the real victor in this suit. Well! well!" he added, "Homer[57] has
The Apology |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: hundred pounds, I believe, to deliver me from this dreadful
condition I am in.'
'Would she so?' says he. 'For half the money I believe I could
put you in a way how to deliver yourself.' But this he spoke
softly, that nobody could hear.
'Alas! sir,' said I, 'but then that must be such a deliverance
as, if I should be taken again, would cost me my life.' 'Nay,'
said he, 'if you were once out of the ship, you must look to
yourself afterwards; that I can say nothing to.' So we dropped
the discourse for that time.
In the meantime, my governess, faithful to the last moment,
Moll Flanders |
