Do
Well
做得好
Zuò dé hǎo
うまくやる
Umaku yaru
ps.119.65
Do well
even in hell.
You have done well according to your word.
Don't discard the affirmative as absurd.
I have believed in the common law
for discernment in knowledge for all.
I went astray before I was afflicted.
I keep faith with reason to untangle the twisted.
Wisdom said,
'Come. Eat some bread.
I had risen as I had said.
Take. Drink some wine.
It will taste fine.
I had ascended the frame as a vine.'
You bring forth good from your goodness
to instruct me in your fullness.
The proud have smeared me with lies
but I will stay true to our benign ties.
Their will is twisted in heart
but my delight is in your law for my part.
The wealthy studious woman was married to her faith.
She was ranked next to the plum in the dark color for her face.
I have used affliction to learn your statutes.
The variants in nature establish pass routes.
Jesus said, 'Come to me uncertain person.
Draw near you weary from the heavy burden.
Learn from me and I will give you rest.
My burden will help you to pass the test.'
The commandment to love is most dear to me.
I use the order in the command for the ability to see
beyond the corruption that seeks to control me.
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Please
Answer
请回答
Qǐng huídá
お答えください
Okotae kudasai
ps119.145
Die obsecro
I cried to you with my whole heart.
Answer me that I may make my part in law my art.
I call to you that you may save me.
I will keep your decrees to help save all of these.
I rise early to honor you
in the search for what your word will prove.
My eyes seek movement in the night watch
that I may meditate on the strength of your promised notch.
Hear my voice according to your kindness.
Give me life. Deliver me from blindness.
Those who are far from your law persecute me.
They drawn near with malice to induce flaw with deceit.
Your presence, Lord, is near in your commandment.
Your existence is an advance in companionship.
I would that all would will to divide the word of truth rightly.
The history of love is salvation achieved dimly or brightly.
It has been given for you to know the secrets of parables
so the figure of an image and reason may become comparable.
The orchid is cut for beauty in aesthetics.
Gauze is applied to cover a wound for medical ethics.
God provides blessing in abundance for enough of anything
that you may share good work to engulf the best that you can bring.
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Tet represents the number nine in Hebrew.
Jewish scripture books about the "holy letters" from the 10th century and on discuss the connection or origin of the letter Teth with the word Tov. Tov means 'good.'
Teth
Bonitatem fecisti
You have done well
65 O Lord, you have dealt graciously with your servant,
according to your word.
66 Teach me discernment and knowledge,
for I have believed in your commandments.
67 Before I was afflicted I went astray,
but now I keep your word.
68 You are good and you bring forth good;
instruct me in your statutes.
69 The proud have smeared me with lies,
but I will keep your commandments with my whole heart.
70 Their heart is gross and fat,
but my delight is in your law.
71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted,
that I might learn your statutes.
72 The law of your mouth is dearer to me
than thousands in gold and silver.
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Qoph
Qoph is the nineteenth letter of the Semitic abjads. It has the numerical value of 100 in Hebrew gamatria.
The origin of the glyph shape of qōp is uncertain. It originally depicted either a sewing needle, specifically the eye of a needle, or the back of a head and neck. Hebrew קוף and Aramaic קופא both refer to the eye of a needle. Qāf in Arabic meant "nape". It may also have been a picture of a monkey and its tail. The Hebrew קוף means "monkey."
The Aramaic Qop gave rise to the letter in the Semitic abjads used in classical antiquity. Phoenician qōp is also the origin of the Latin letter Q and Greek ײ (phi).
Qoph
Clamavi in toto corde meo
I cried with my whole heart
145 I call with my whole heart;
answer me, O Lord, that I may keep your statutes.
146 I call to you;
oh, that you would save me!
I will keep your decrees.
147 Early in the morning I cry out to you,
for in your word is my trust.
148 My eyes are open in the night watches,
that I may meditate upon your promise.
149 Hear my voice, O Lord, according to your loving-kindness;
according to your judgments, give me life.
150 They draw near who in malice persecute me;
they are very far from your law.
151 You, O Lord, are near at hand,
and all your commandments are true.
152 Long have I known from your decrees
that you have established them for ever.
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Proverbs 9:5-6
Wisdom said, 'Come. Eat bread
and drink the wine I have mixed.
Lay aside immaturity and live
and walk in the way of insight.
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Wisdom said,
'Come. Eat some bread.
I had risen as I had said.
Drink some wine. It will taste fine.
I had ascended the frame as a vine.'
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Matt. 11:28-29
Jesus said, 'Come to me, all you that are weary and carry heavy burdens. I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Learn from me. I am gentle and humble in heart. You will find rest for your souls. My yoke is easy. My burden is light.
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Jesus said, 'Come to me uncertain person.
Any may come that are weary from heavy burden.
Learn from me and I will give you rest.
The lightness of my burden will help you to pass the test.'
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Asceticism
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"Has not Christianity declaimed against private property, against marriage, against the State? Has it not preached in the place of these, charity and poverty, celibacy and mortification of the flesh, monastic life and Mother Church? Christian Socialism is but the holy water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat."
Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto (1848)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch03.htm
Melania the Elder
b. c.350 Spain
d. 6.8.410 Jerusalem
Melania the Elder was a Desert Mother who was an influential figure in the Christian ascetic movement. The Desert Fathers and Mothers sprang up in the generation after the Emperor Constantine made Christianity a legal religion of the Roman Empire.
Spain
Hispania was part of the Roman empire in the 4th century.
Roman armies invaded the Iberian peninsula in 218 BCE. The land was used as a training ground for officers. Tactics were tested during campaigns against the Carthaginians, the Iberians, the Lusitanians, the Gallaecians and other Celts.
It was not until 19 BCE that the Roman emperor Augustus (r. 27 BC–AD 14) was able to complete the conquest. Much of Hispania remained autonomous until then.
Romanization proceeded quickly in some regions after the time of Augustus. There are references to the togati. The process was very slowly in others. Hispania was divided into three separately governed provinces.
There were nine provinces by the 4th century. More importantly, Hispania was for 500 years part of a cosmopolitan world empire bound together by law, language and Roman roads. The impact of Hispania on the newcomers was also big. Caesar wrote on the Civil Wars that the soldiers from the Second Legion had become Hispanicized and regarded themselves as hispanici.
Some of the peninsula's population were admitted into the Roman aristocratic class. They participated in governing Hispania and the Roman empire. There was a native aristocratic class who ruled each local tribe.
The latifundia (sing., latifundium) were large estates controlled by the aristocracy. These estates were superimposed on the existing Iberian landholding system.
The Romans improved existing cities such as Lisbon (Olissipo) and Tarragona (Tarraco), established Zaragoza (Caesaraugusta), Mérida (Augusta Emerita) and Valencia (Valentia), and reduced other native cities to mere villages.
The peninsula's economy expanded under Roman tutelage. Hispania served as a granary and a major source of metals for the Roman market. Its harbors exported gold, tin, silver, lead, wool, wheat, olive oil, wine, fish and garum.
Agricultural production increased with the introduction of irrigation projects. Some of the constructs remain in use today. The Romanized Iberian populations and the Iberian-born descendants of Roman soldiers and colonists had all achieved the status of full Roman citizenship by the end of the 1st century.
The emperors Trajan (r. 98–117) and Hadrian (r. 117–138) were of Hispanic origin.
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Proverbs 9:5-6
Wisdom said, 'Come. Eat bread
and drink the wine I have mixed.
Lay aside immaturity and live
and walk in the way of insight.
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Melania
Melania was one of the wealthiest citizens of the empire. She was married at 14 and moved from Spain with her husband to the suburbs of Rome. Her husband and two out of three sons had died by the time she was 22.
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Matt. 11:28-29
Jesus said, 'Come to me, all you that are weary and carry heavy burdens. I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Learn from me. I am gentle and humble in heart. You will find rest for your souls. My yoke is easy. My burden is light.
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She became a Christian in Rome. She left her son with a guardian and set off to Alexandria, accompanied by her servants to join other Christian ascetics to visit the monks at the mountain of Nitria.
She came into contact with holy men such as Pambo, Arsisius, Sarapion the Great, Paphnutius of Scete, Isidore the bishop of Hermopolis and Dioscorus. She stayed there for six months.
When persecution broke out after the death of Bishop Athanasius in 373 many of the monks were exiled to Diocaesaraea in Palestine.
Isidore, Pisinius, Adelphius Paphnutius and Pambo were exiled. Melania followed and supported them financially. She would cover herself in a slave's cloak and bring them goods in the evenings.
When the governor of Palestine discovered this, he attempted to blackmail her and threw her into prison. When the judge realized her social status, he let her go. Palladius attributes this release to her Christian works.
She built a convent for about 50 nuns in Jerusalem and a monastery on the Mount of Olives for the monk and theologian Rufinus of Aquileia.
Melania was known to Abba Macarius and other Desert Fathers in Egypt. She was a contemporary of Jerome, Augustine of Hippo, Paulinus of Nola (her cousin or cousin-in-law), and Evagrius of Pontus. She was a follower of Origen. She practiced asceticism in accord with his instruction.
She was a spiritual mentor to Evagrius of Pontus, later author of the Eastern Orthodox Philokalia. She persuaded him to go to Egypt to join the desert ascetics and carried on a correspondence with him while he was there.
She left for Rome to see her son around the year 400. Her granddaughter, known as Melania the Younger, would later take up the religious life due to her influence.
When the Visigoths marched on Rome in 410, Melania, her daughter-in law Albina, granddaughter Melania and her husband fled to Sicily.
They then went to Jerusalem. Melania remained in the city when the exiled ascetics were allowed to return to Egypt.
She energetically practiced hospitality and funded churches and monasteries in the Roman and Persian Empires. She constantly read and re-read the works of Origen, Basil the Great and Gregory of Nazianzus.
Melania died in Jerusalem around 417.
Her social network was one of the most important in the fourth and early fifth century Christianity. She was fluent and well read in both Latin and Greek. Her geographical connections reached from Spain to Persia.
She grew as a member of the first generation in which members of the nobility and social elites were expected to take Christianity seriously. She lived to see it become the official religion of the Empire.
The ascetic lifestyle was semi-communal. Ownership for the property was signed to the abbot or the abbess. The monks lived in cells. They prayed and studied individually until the community gathered together.
The determination of policy in the political empire was subject to the competition for authority. Arguments about what was wanted probably defaulted to who wanted it often enough.
The struggle with asceticism directed attention away from the want of the will in the gratification of desire, but it threw the question of happiness out of court as well.
The perception of goodness lent itself to market conditions. If fish could be eaten and tasted satisfactory, it was good. If it could be eaten, but wasn't satisfactory, it wasn't. Good fish were taken to market. Bad fish were thrown back.
Policy decisions for the public have to rule out that which is not good for people. Legislation is the documentation of policy. It can't be too ambiguous or too particular.
Melania
S. 梅拉尼亚
T. 梅拉尼亞
梅 Mei plum 梅 bai plum Me め メ Mel 멜 Mell
拉 la pull 拉 ratsu Latin la ら ラ la 라 la
尼 ni nun 尼 ni nun ni に ニ ni 니 ni
亚 ya next to 亞 a rank a あ ア a 아 ah
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The wealthy studious woman was married to her faith.
She was ranked next to the plum in the dark color for her face.
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Numbers 11:27-29
A young man ran and told Moses, 'Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.' Joshua son of Nun, assistant to Moses, said, 'My lord Moses, stop them!' Moses said to him, 'Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the LORD's people were prophets that the LORD would put his spirit on them!'
Eldad- God has loved.
Medad- Love.
Moses- Drawn.
Joshua- Yhwh is salvation
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I would that all would will to divide the word of truth rightly.
The history of love is salvation achieved dimly or brightly.
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2 Corinthians 9:8
God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance that by always having enough of everything, you may share abundantly in every good work.
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God provides blessing in abundance for enough of anything
that you may share good work to engulf the best that you can bring.
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Luke 8:9-10
His disciples asked him what the parable meant. He said, 'To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but to others I speak in parables, so
"Looking, they may not perceive
and listening, they may not understand."
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It has been given for you to know the secrets of parables
so the figure of an image and reason may become comparable.
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Recognition
Roland Allen
b. 12.29.1868 Bristol, United Kingdom
d. 6.9.1947 Nairobi, Kenya
Roland Allen was an English missionary sent by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel to China. His views on missionary strategy have been influential.
Bristol
Bristol is a port city on the west coast in the southern part of England.
Iron Age hill forts and Roman villas were built near the confluence of the rivers Frome and Avon. The settlement was known as Brycgstow (Old English "the place at the bridge") around the beginning of the 11th century.
Bristol received a royal charter in 1155. It was historically divided between Gloucestershire and Somerset until 1373. It became a county of itself. It was among the top three English cities after London in tax receipts from the 13th to the 18th century.
The port was a starting place for early voyages of exploration to the New World. John Cabot, a Venetian, became the first European since the Vikings to land on mainland North America on a ship out of Bristol in 1497.
William Weston, a Bristol merchant, was the first Englishman to lead an exploration to North America in 1499. More than 2,000 slave ships carried an estimated 500,000 people from Africa to slavery in the Americas at the height of the Bristol slave trade from 1700 to 1807.
The Port of Bristol has since moved from Bristol Harbour in the city center to the Severn Estuary at Avonmouth and Royal Portbury Dock. It was surpassed by the rapid rise of Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool in the Industrial Revolution.
Roland Allen
Roland Allen was born in Bristol, England on December 19, 1868. He was the son of an Anglican priest but was orphaned early in life.
He trained for ministry at Oxford and became a priest in 1893.
He spent two periods in Northern China working for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. The first from 1895 to 1900 ended due to the Boxer Rebellion.
Boxer Rebellion
The rebellion was an anti-imperialist, anti-foreign, and anti-Christian uprising that took place in China between 1899 and 1901 toward the end of the Qing dynasty. It was initiated by the Militia United in Righteousness (Yihetuan), known in English as the Boxers. Many of their members had been practitioners of Chinese martial arts.
The secret organization led an uprising in northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence there. The rebels performed physical exercises they believed would make them able to withstand bullets. They killed foreigners, Chinese Christians and destroyed foreign property.
Western powers and Japan had forced China’s ruling Qing dynasty to accept wide foreign control over the country’s economic affairs by the end of the 19th century. China had fought to resist the foreigners with popular rebellions in the Opium Wars (1839-42, 1856-60) and the Sino-Japanese War (1894-95), but it lacked a modernized military and suffered many casualties.
The uprising took place against a background that included severe drought. Disruption to established administration was caused by the growth of foreign spheres of influence.
Allen was forced to flee to the British Legation in Beijing during this time. He was chaplain to the community throughout much of the siege.
Diplomats, foreign civilians and soldiers as well as Chinese Christians in the Legation Quarter were besieged for 55 days by the Imperial Army of China and the Boxers. Chinese officialdom was split between those supporting the Boxers and those favoring conciliation, led by Prince Qing.
The Eight-Nation Alliance was made up of American, Austro-Hungarian, British, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Russian forces. The alliance was initially turned back. They brought 20,000 armed troops to China, defeated the Imperial Army and arrived at Peking on August 14, to relieve the siege of the Legations.
Plunder of the capital and the surrounding countryside ensued along with the summary execution of those suspected of being Boxers. The Boxer Protocol of 7 September 1901 provided for the execution of government officials who had supported the Boxers.
A large indemnity was charged to China to pay the 8 nations over the course of the next 39 years. The indemnity was 450 million units of silver. Each unit (tael) was about 40 grams.
Allen returned to North China after a period back in England in 1902, but was forced home due to illness. These ‘early experiences led him to a radical reassessment of his own vocation and the theology and missionary methods of the Western churches’.
Allen became an early advocate of establishing Churches which from the beginning would be self-supporting, self-propagating and self-governing. Each church would adapt to local conditions. The community would not merely imitate Western Christianity. The Church would preserve Chinese culture within the framework of Christian monotheism.
Allen's views were confirmed by a trip to India in 1910 and by later research in Canada and East Africa. It is with this background that Allen wrote his book Missionary Methods which was first published in 1912.
Allen’s approach to Mission strategy for indigenous Churches is based on the study of Saint Paul’s missionary methods as he is convinced that in them can be found the solution to most of the difficulties of the day.
He believed it was the recognition of the church as a local entity and trust in the Holy Spirit’s indwelling within the converts and churches which was the mark of Paul’s success.
Paul was a representative of the apostolic community in Jerusalem in a way that was comparable to how Augustine was related to the ecumenical Church at a later time. Disputes over doctrine were referred to the statements of the larger body.
Allen believed in contrast that the people of his day were unable to entrust their converts to the Holy Spirit and instead relied in His work through them. His views became increasingly influential.
There was room for development from the local level of authority, but the assumption of benefit in Diocesan organization was not as clear as it was with Selwyn (1809-1878).
Allen himself became disillusioned with the established churches. It is likely that socialism was an inhibitor to Church growth.
He spent the last years of his life in Kenya. He established a reclusive church of his own design centered on an idiosyncratic family rite.
Allen died in Nairobi on June 9, 1947.
Roland Allen
S. 罗兰艾伦
T. 羅蘭艾倫
罗 Luo to catch 羅 ra gauze Ro ろ- ロ- Lol 롤 role
兰 lan orchid 蘭 ran orchid ran らん ラン laen 랜 LAN
艾 Ai to cut 艾 kai moxa do ど ド deu 드 de
伦 lun order 倫 rin ethics Aren あれん アレン Al 알 egg
laen 렌 LAN
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The orchid is cut for beauty in aesthetics.
Gauze is applied to cover a wound for medical ethics.
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Indentured Servitude
Education is not slavery. It is no longer a form of indentured service.
Education had an affiliation with slavery in classical culture. The Greeks provided the teachers for the Roman Patricians from the population of slaves.
Experience with education is such that it can be imagined that the standard for judgment could be raised in a way that indicated that nothing from the student could result in a good report.
Objective testing requires vocabulary. A definition goes with a word. The definition can be matched or included in a set of choices. The word can be used to fill in a blank or used in a sentence. There are a variety of game formats available in cognitive strategies that help teachers to build student memory about the meaning of words.
When vocabulary building is included in the course of instruction, tests can be written that qualify as fair for student perception.
Student memory can be built from identification of the correctly spelled word to association with the definition and the correct use in a sentence. Reading comprehension is complimented by application with grammar.
The modern art of instruction is not limited to making the student 'jump through hoops' to demonstrate a desire to perform. The testing has to present a fair assessment of student achievement in the acquisition of knowledge.
Indentured Servants
http://www.virtualjamestown.org/indentures/about_indentures.html
This database of indenture contracts includes over 15,000 indentured servants contracts from the London, Middlesex and Bristol Registers.
The contracts list the servant's name and length of indenture. The name of the servant's parents and owner, their home province and city, occupation, destination, and ship of embarkation are noted as well.
These records provide a detailed composition of indentured servants in the Atlantic World of the 17th century.
