Shine
as Divine
闪耀着神圣的光芒
Shǎnyàozhe shénshèng de guāngmáng
神として輝く
Kami to shite kagayaku
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Ut lucere divinum
Hear this teaching from life.
An open heart reduces stress from strife.
This truth from ancient times will be declared.
Your family and you will be spared with care.
That which has been heard and shown
has been revealed to us as known.
The deeds of power known under heaven
will be recounted to act as leaven.
Generations will know your praise.
Your work is shown with the sun's rays.
Violence was the wilderness of former times.
Civilization must construct for production's rise.
You split the waters to let us pass.
The sea was weaned of water and left with grass.
You led us with a cloud by day.
The fire by night let us find our way.
You split a rock in the rugged terrain.
You gave us drink without the rain.
A stream flowed from out of the cliff.
The river gushed without the fish.
We, the people had said,
"This way is harsh. We will end up dead.
"Will we be killed by this cure?
We just don't know. We can't be sure."
Hear now, you house of conflict,
"You say my way does most restrict?
"Your way was terribly unfair.
You'd take a life without a care."
"When righteousness had left the pious,
iniquity had found his likeness."
"When inequity defined the lawful
the people were left to defend the awful."
"The righteous were left to stay the course
with diminishing returns for remorse."
"You were judged, you house of disdain.
You have been turned away from causing pain."
"Repent from your transgression.
Confession destroys the affect of oppression.
Get a new heart and spirit.
Turn from iniquity. Don't go near it.
I find no pleasure in the death of righteousness.
Refuse cruelty. Let conscience guide your light to bliss."
Let the people say,
"I lift my soul to you, Y-hw-h.
Let me avoid humiliation.
Let me make the situation
the path to salvation
not my condemnation.
Do not let my enemy
triumph over me.
I put my trust in you.
You will guide me in what to say or do."
Let none who seek your face be ashamed.
Let the treacherous be trained to refrain from causing pain.
Show me your ways.
Lead me with strength through the length of days.
Lead me in your truth.
Teach me how to calm and sooth.
You are the author of my salvation.
I trust that you will help me build my station.
Remember not the sins of my youth.
Keep me from the serpent's tooth.
An arch of many colors has been set beneath the clouds.
The covenant has been endowed.
The rainbow shows promise after the storm
that delight in the light of life may be your norm.
Leadership weighs justice with the scales
of experience to use reason to help benefit prevail.
Being washed from sin is not an ordeal.
It is a trial to help you heal.
The good news is like a friend
that shares your promise beyond your end.
Your action defines you more than your social role.
Show mercy as needed for redemption to grow.
You are the Lord of life,
the precious Christ.
You teach the humble to do what's right.
The lowly delight in your insight.
Let the same mind be found as with Jesus.
Claiming equality with God was not a reason
for being, believing or promoting treason.
He emptied himself of the claim to deity
to leave himself with that which was divine about decency.
He humbled himself with human likeness
that human kind may shine with brightness.
Turn to the LORD your God with your heart and soul
that you may prosper as your ancestors in achieving your goals.
School is the tool of the Word for the Church.
Perspective on perception takes hold of hope in the search.
The good news has come to you with hope in the word of truth.
Grace bears fruit in comprehension in redemption from the errors of youth.
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25 Ad te, Domine, levavi
I to, the Dominated, lift
1 To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul;
my God, I put my trust in you;
let me not be humiliated,
nor let my enemies triumph over me.
2 Let none who look to you be put to shame;
let the treacherous be disappointed in their schemes.
3 Show me your ways, O Lord,
and teach me your paths.
4 Lead me in your truth and teach me,
for you are the God of my salvation;
in you have I trusted all the day long.
5 Remember, O Lord, your compassion and love,
for they are from everlasting.
6 Remember not the sins of my youth and my transgressions;
remember me according to your love
and for the sake of your goodness, O Lord.
7 Gracious and upright is the Lord;
therefore he teaches sinners in his way.
8 He guides the humble in doing right
and teaches his way to the lowly.
9 All the paths of the Lord are love and faithfulness
to those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.
10 For your Name's sake, O Lord,
forgive my sin, for it is great.
11 Who are they who fear the Lord?
he will teach them the way that they should choose.
12 They shall dwell in prosperity,
and their offspring shall inherit the land.
13 The Lord is a friend to those who fear him
and will show them his covenant.
14 My eyes are ever looking to the Lord,
for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.
15 Turn to me and have pity on me,
for I am left alone and in misery.
16 The sorrows of my heart have increased;
bring me out of my troubles.
17 Look upon my adversity and misery
and forgive me all my sin.
18 Look upon my enemies, for they are many,
and they bear a violent hatred against me.
19 Protect my life and deliver me;
let me not be put to shame, for I have trusted in you.
20 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me,
for my hope has been in you.
21 Deliver Israel, O God,
out of all his troubles.
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Deut. 30:10
The LORD will take delight in prospering you, just as he delighted in prospering your ancestors when you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
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Turn to the LORD your God with your heart and soul
that you may prosper as your ancestors in achieving your goals.
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Colossians 1:6
You have heard of this hope in the word of truth, the gospel that has come to you. Just as it is bearing fruit among yourselves from the day you heard it and truly comprehended the grace of God.
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The good news has come to you with hope in the word of truth.
Grace bears fruit in comprehension in redemption from the errors of youth.
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Luke 10:36-37
Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers? The lawyer said, 'The one who showed mercy.' Jesus said to him 'Go and do likewise.'
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Your action defines you more than your social role.
Show mercy as needed for redemption to grow.
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Out from Polytheism
Argula von Grumbach
b. 1492 Regensburg, Bavaria
d. 7.14.1554 Regensburg, Bavaria
Argula von Grumbach was a Bavarian writer and noblewoman. She became involved in the Protestant Reformation debates going on in Germany starting in the 1520's.
She was the first Protestant woman writer. Her letters and poems defended Martin Luther, his co-worker Philip Melanchthon and her reputation. She gained notoriety when she wrote to the University of Ingolstadt's faculty to protest the arrest of a Lutheran student.
She was born in Bavaria in the latter part of the 15th century.
Regensburg
Regensburg is a city in southeast Germany. It was built at the confluence of the Danube, Naab and Regen rivers. It is the 4th largest city in the state of Bavaria after Munich, Nuremberg and Augsburg.
Regensburg became a Free Imperial City in 1245. It was an active center for trade before the routes were shifted in the late Middle Ages. It became part of the Duchy of Bavaria in 1486. Independence was restored by the Holy Roman Emperor ten years later.
The city adopted the Protestant Reformation in 1542. The town council remained entirely Lutheran.
Argula von Grumbach
She was born as Argula von Stauff near Regensburg, Bavaria in 1492. Her family lived in their baronial seat at Ehrenfel's castle.
The von Stauff family were Freiherren. They were lords with independent jurisdiction only accountable to the Emperor. They were among the pre-eminent leaders of Bavarian nobility.
Argula's upbringing was in a political and deeply religious household. Education and attendance at university was highly valued. Argula is thought to have learned to read fluently at a very young age.
Her father gave her an expensive and beautifully crafted Koberger Bible in German when she was 10. Franciscan preachers had discouraged it. They said it would only confuse her.
Those who received formal instruction were instructed in the classics of Roman civilization. She became an avid student of the Bible and memorized much of its contents.
Argula joined the court in Munich at the age of 16. She became a lady-in-waiting to duchess Kunigunde, daughter of the Emperor Frederick III. The duchess was said to have a strong personality herself. She was passionate about politics and religion.
The court as a whole was interested in spiritual matters. It is there that Argula's studies of the Bible could have become serious as a social activity.
Her young adult life was marked by tragedy. Both her parents became ill from plague and died in 1509. Her father's brother, Hieronymus, became her guardian. He was a leading figure at court but ended up disgraced in a political scandal that led to his execution in 1516.
Her outrage at his death most likely prompted her persistent loathing for violence and coercion throughout her life.
Argula married Friedrich von Grumbach in the same year as her uncle's execution. The von Grumbach family was not as prestigious as the von Stauffs, but they were still known in German history.
Friedrich himself had been appointed to an honorary administrator post in Dietfurt. He also had several other landholdings throughout Bavaria. He is also thought to have had ill health. He died in 1530.
Argula had four children with Friedrich. George, Hans Georg, Gottfried and Apollonia. The only child to survive his parents was Gottfried. Argula made all the arrangements for her children's Protestant educations.
Records indicated that Argula took care of many of the financial and business matters of her family even before her husband's death.
She wrote a poem in 1524 that stated, ‘May God teach me to understand/ How I should act towards my man.’ Friedrich was not a Reformer. He remained in the old church. He was put under pressure to ‘bring her into line’ when she was writing her letters to challenge the judgment of authorities.
Argula married again to Count von Schlick in 1533, 3 years after Friedrich's death. The count died within 2 years.
Martin Luther published his first treatises in 1520. Philipp Melancthon laid out Luther's teachings in a book. Luther had finished his translation of the New Testament in German by 1522. Argula von Grumbach read his work. She became a follower in that year and started a correspondence with him. She would meet Luther face to face in 1530.
Bavarian authorities had forbidden reception of Lutheran ideas at the time. The city of Ingolstadt enforced that mandate.
Arsacius Seehofer, a young teacher and former student at the University of Ingolstadt, was arrested for Protestant views in 1523. He was forced to recant his position with the threat of imprisonment and the stake.
A young woman challenged the Catholic establishment to a public debate in one of the most daring and remarkable events in the history of the Reformation.
She was a 31-year old mother of four. She listened to the news with apprehension and outrage. How could they even call it a trial? On what did they base their accusations? She wondered why no one had come to the student’s defense.
If the men were silent, she had to speak out. Argula wrote a letter to the faculty of the university objecting to Seehofer's arrest and exile. The letter urged the university to follow Scripture, not Roman traditions.
She wrote that Christ, the apostles and the prophets did not imprison, burn or murder anyone in the Bible. The pope, the Kaiser and princes did not have authority over the Word of God. She criticized the pope for the use of Aristotle in the formation of papal decrees.
She argued that the 18 year old man would learn from his youthful indiscretion. She wrote as a member of the Church of Christ as set forth in the Word of God.
Her letter was turned into a booklet. It provoked a huge reaction. It angered Roman theologians, yet it was a popular sensation. It went through fourteen editions in two months and became a bestseller.
She wrote 7 more pamphlets on similar pressing issues. About 29,000 copies of her writings were distributed in Germany between 1523 and 1524.
The printing press was a new technology in the early 16th century. It was not yet controlled by the State. It played a lead role in the reformation of information. Printers spread ideas that were disturbing to the establishment. The movement for the Christian transformation of classical political structure was faster than could be controlled.
Something similar was happening with science. Niccolo Copernicus' book on a sun-centered model of the universe was an example (1543). Comparable upheavals had occurred after the return of literacy and literature from the Latin translations of the 12th century.
The translation of classical texts had kicked off the Renaissance. It was the dawn of literacy in Classical Greece. The Romans had used Greek work to form their culture. The information boom in the Reformation was the 16th century predecessor to the modern internet.
Theologians wanted Argula punished. Her husband lost his position at Dietfurt over the controversy. Offensive epithets were used by her critics. The sermons of Professor Hauer described her as a “shameless whore” and a “female desperado.”
Argula was controversial. She was shunned by some of her own family, but she also had admirers. The reformer Balthasar Hubmaier described her as a "pious woman" who was like "Deborah and Hulda" in the Old Testament and the "daughters of Philip" in the New.
Her challenge to the University did not overturn their judgment. Her effort to promote Protestant belief for Bavaria didn't result in immediate success, but Regensburg adopted Reformation principles in 1542.
Argula continued to write. She also traveled alone to Nuremburg to talk to German princes about the Reformation. Such travel by a woman was not common at the time.
Argula von Grumbach was reported in a local chronicle to have died in 1554. There was some evidence however from correspondence of the Munich City Council that indicated that she could have been alive as late as 1563.
She was a model for the defense of nobility in the German Reformation. She used the principles that Martin Luther and Philip Melancthon had derived from John Huss.
The Bible was the authoritative source for the conversion of classical culture to Christian morality. The shift was significant in terms of personal perspective.
Polytheism was aggressively ardent in the at least metaphorically violent advocacy for individual perception regarding right and wrong with respect for the stories about the gods in mythology.
Christian monotheism according to the Anglican and Lutheran models was a unificatory perspective insofar as it was against both rebellion by the people and cruel punishment by government officials.
Argula von Grumbach
S. 阿鲁拉冯格鲁姆巴哈
T. 阿魯拉馮格魯姆巴哈
阿 A ah 阿 a flatter A あ- ア- A 아 ah
鲁 lu rude 魯 ro foolish ru る ル leu 르 le
拉 la hold 拉 ra kidnap gu ぐる グル gul 굴 oyster
冯 feng gallop 馮 fu displeasure ra ら ラ la 라 la
格 Ge rule 格 go status fon ふぉん フォン pon 폰 pawn
鲁 lu rude 魯 ro foolish Guro ぐろ グロ Gu 구 phrase
姆 mu governess 姆 mo wet nurse mu む ム leom 럼 rum
巴 ba to hope 巴 ha hope ba ばっ バッ ba 바 bar
哈 ha yawn 哈 ha school of fish ha は ハ heu 흐 chu
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School was the tool of the Word for the Church.
Perspective on perception took hold of hope in the search.
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http://www.satucket.com/lectionary/Argula_von_Grumbach.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argula_von_Grumbach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regensburg
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Augustine had proposed the possibility of a 'just war' in the 5th century. It was written after Rome had been invaded by Alaric and the Visigoths in 410. The context suggested that defense was that which qualified that which could be called 'just' about war. The concept was used to call for the Crusades that started near the end of the 11th century.
Thomas Hobbes would eventually write for defense from attack as a prime directive for the state in the 17th century, but the long standing precedent for the House of Commons to use war to increase taxes was invoked by Locke's advocacy for a doctrine of destruction later in the same century.
Liberal politicians have used the claim of human rights violation as a pretense for military invasion in global expansion since that time. Primitive society itself was seen alternately as a violation of rights or the threat of destruction to civilized life.
The social climate In the west after WWII held that invasion was not a just political principle. This was maintained as the legal norm until after the destruction of the World Trade Center towers in New York City in 2001.
The Chinese socialist republic was modeled in part on the Russian, but China has a very long history of instruction in administration. While the goal of world domination was stated as a socialist objective, the conservative principles of administration in China rejected military invasion followed by long term occupation for any foreign nation.
Russia had been more aggressive in military action after WWII, but they were less aggressive than their western counterparts. When the US and European powers were taking military action to the borders of China, Russia got involved in the defense.
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