Yerevan City, Armenia
(consecrated 2001)
Know
Goodness
知道善良
Zhīdào shànliáng
長所を知る
Chōsho o shiru
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Deliver me from my affliction.
I don't treat your law as a fiction.
Give me life in accord with your promise.
My hope is that redemption comes when I'm honest.
When I allow myself to admit to error in historical perspective
I can change my path as the standard bearer in the detection for the corrective.
Those who study nature for natural selection
make aggression the focus for their detection.
When aggression is seen as the cause of evolution
the political consequence is the threat of revolution.
Revolution has resulted in something worse rather than better.
It is time to give thought to the merit of the constitutional letter.
Self-government is the purpose for parliament with a monarch.
The republic might as well deny government overreach as the trademark.
The enlargement of abstraction is connected to the power of authority.
Relative being is related to the absolute, but the relation doesn't justify conformity
to liberal expenditure for atrocity in violent or cruel deformity.
Those who study your statutes in history and nature
find deliverance from regression to mystery and usurpature.
Love is written into the natural design.
Mercy in judgment is the signature for the divine.
Knowledge of the consequence of good or evil
was the first test of faith for faithful people.
Punishment for crime was not seen in terms of correction.
It was the vehicle for the perpetuation of mass deception.
When there was no proportion used to stop damage
or when nothing was seen as a significant infraction
criminal behavior was allowed to gain traction.
Pleasure and pain are the principles for utility.
Reason inferred from experience is for the future of civility.
Death is only imposable with proof of murder.
Life in prison is the case when conviction is less certain as determined.
Monetary recompense is in order when less damage than murder is the subverter.
Confinement is indicated when compensation is not affordable as the converter.
You are the salt of the earth.
If the salt has lost its taste, it has lost its worth.
The fortunes for Job were restored when he prayed for his friends.
He was given more than enough to meet his ends.
I have not turned from faith in your word.
Reason rejects persecution as absurd.
Thought is the bolt that leads speech for good news.
Speech thunders with status for each rank to choose.
Those eyes that refuse to believe or concede
fail to see with measured degrees.
The mercy of your commandment preserves me.
Love is the master key to the highest degree of your devotee.
The heart of your word is truth.
Righteous judgment reflects this forsooth.
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Resh Vide humilitatem
Resh is the 20th letter of the Semitic abjads. The word is assumed to have come from a pictogram of a head.
It can stand for Rabbi as an abbreviation.
153 Behold my affliction and deliver me,
for I do not forget your law.
154 Plead my cause and redeem me;
according to your promise, give me life.
155 Deliverance is far from the wicked,
for they do not study your statutes.
156 Great is your compassion, O Lord;
preserve my life, according to your judgments.
157 There are many who persecute and oppress me,
yet I have not swerved from your decrees.
158 I look with loathing at the faithless,
for they have not kept your word.
159 See how I love your commandments!
O Lord, in your mercy, preserve me.
160 The heart of your word is truth;
all your righteous judgments endure for evermore.
Shin Principes persecuti sunt
21st abjad
Shin/ sin - that
It represents the word Shaddai, a name for God.
The letter Shin is often inscribed on the case containing a mezuzah. The text contained in the mezuzah is the Shema Yisrael prayer. The prayer calls the faithful to love their God with all their heart, soul and strength. The mezuzah is placed on all the doorframes in a home or establishment.
161 Rulers have persecuted me without a cause,
but my heart stands in awe of your word.
162 I am as glad because of your promise
as one who finds great spoils.
163 As for lies, I hate and abhor them,
but your law is my love.
164 Seven times a day do I praise you,
because of your righteous judgments.
165 Great peace have they who love your law;
for them there is no stumbling block.
166 I have hoped for your salvation, O Lord,
and have fulfilled your commandments.
167 I have kept your decrees
and I have loved them deeply.
168 I have kept your commandments and decrees,
for all my ways are before you.
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169 Let my cry come before you, O Lord;
give me understanding, according to your word.
170 Let my supplication come before you;
deliver me, according to your promise.
171 My lips shall pour forth your praise,
when you teach me your statutes.
172 My tongue shall sing of your promise,
for all your commandments are righteous.
173 Let your hand be ready to help me,
for I have chosen your commandments.
174 I long for your salvation, O Lord,
and your law is my delight.
175 Let me live, and I will praise you,
and let your judgments help me.
176 I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost;
search for your servant,
for I do not forget your commandments.
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Job 42:10
The LORD restored the fortunes of Job when he had prayed for his friends. Job was given twice as much as he had before.
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The fortunes for Job were restored when he prayed for his friends.
He was given more than enough to meet his ends.
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Acts 17:26
He made all nations to inhabit the whole earth from one ancestor. He allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live. They would search for God and perhaps grope to find him, though he is not far from any one of us.
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Knowledge of the consequence of good or evil
was the first test of faith for faithful people.
Punishment for crime was not seen in terms of correction.
It was the vehicle for the perpetuation of mass deception.
When there was no proportion used to stop damage
or when nothing was seen as a significant infraction
criminal behavior was allowed to gain traction.
Death is only imposable with proof of murder.
Life in prison is the case when conviction is less certain as determined.
Monetary recompense is in order when less damage than murder is the subverter.
Confinement is indicated when compensation is not affordable as the converter.
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Matt. 5:13
You are the salt of the earth. If salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything. It is thrown out and trampled underfoot.
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You are the salt of the earth.
If the salt has lost its taste, it has lost its worth.
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The objections expressed by Berkeley to Locke's proposal for empiricism in philosophy indicate an opposition to unregulated global expansion by the government for officials and their supporters. The lack of regulation in the extension of abstract geneal ideas suggested the enslavement of primitive people. There was also the threat that natives would be viewed as hostile to those 'civilized' by the Puritan parliamentarian dictum with the anti-monarchical and anti-aristocratic definitions for democracy.
There was also a concern about mono-lingualism in the presumption of communication or enlargement in the abstraction of general ideas. Someone who couldn't explain the properties of a triangle in English could be assumed to be hostile or a threat. This kind of thing undergirded colonialism and enslavement as policy in global expansion within the competition of kingdoms to control the Roman empire of the time.
Berkeley's criticism did not invalidate the value of knowledge regarding triangles in the art of construction, scientific measure or education. The objection was against the use of violent aggression or cruelty in punishment in the expansion of 'protection' for trade.
He expressed indirect support for the "absolute, POSITIVE nature or conception of anything" as a characteristic of leadership in monarchy, republic, social or personal relations. Anglicans were regarded as corrupt by Puritans because of the corporate identification with monarchy or responsible leadership in republican government.
Concern for conservative policy was intended to oppose and restrict increase in taxation for the expansion of protection for the extension of trade around the globe. The concern was necessary to deter reckless self-destruction as state officials sought to award themselves excessively for the authority of their 'democracy.'
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George Berkeley
Principles of Human Knowledge
1710
Text for Principles
Abstract general ideas are necessary according to Locke, but they are not necessary for communication or for the enlargement of knowledge.
Enlargement of Knowledge
"Nor do I think them a whit more needful for the ENLARGEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE than for COMMUNICATION. It is, I know, a point much insisted on, that all knowledge and demonstration are about universal notions, to which I fully agree: but then it doth not appear to me that those notions are formed by ABSTRACTION in the manner PREMISED--UNIVERSALITY, so far as I can comprehend, not consisting in the absolute, POSITIVE nature or conception of anything, but in the RELATION it bears to the particulars signified or represented by it; by virtue whereof it is that things, names, or notions, being in their own nature PARTICULAR, are rendered UNIVERSAL. Thus, when I demonstrate any proposition concerning triangles, it is to be supposed that I have in view the universal idea of a triangle; which ought not to be understood as if I could frame an idea of a triangle which was neither equilateral, nor scalenon, nor equicrural; but only that the particular triangle I consider, whether of this or that sort it matters not, doth equally stand for and represent all rectilinear triangles whatsoever, and is in that sense UNIVERSAL. All which seems very plain and not to include any difficulty in it."
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The enlargement of abstraction is connected to the power of authority.
Relative being is related to the absolute, but the relation doesn't justify conformity
to liberal expenditure for atrocity in violent or cruel deformity.
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Jeremy Bentham
Principles of Morals and Legislation
1789
"Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it. In words a man may pretend to abjure their empire: but in reality he will remain subject to it all the while. The principle of utility recognizes this subjection, and assumes it for the foundation of that system, the object of which is to rear the fabric of felicity by the hands of reason and of law. Systems which attempt to question it, deal in sounds instead of sense, in caprice instead of reason, in darkness instead of light."
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Pleasure and pain are the principles for utility.
Reason inferred from experience is for the future of civility.
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Gregory the Illuminator
Armenia
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Armenia is a landlocked country. It is situated between the Black and Caspian Seas. Turkey lies to the west. Georgia is north. Azerbaijan is to the east. Iran and Nakhchivan are to the south.
The terrain has highlands in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia.
Armenia was the first country to become Christian. Gregory is identified as its apostle.
The ancient kingdom was a buffer state between the powerful empires of Rome and Parthia (Persia). Both of them sought to control it.
Gregory was born about 257. His parents were Parthian nobles of Armenian descent. His father assassinated the King of Parthia when he was still an infant. Friends of the family carried Gregory away for protection to Caesarea in Cappadocia. He was reared as a Christian.
Gregory had been married. He had two children with his wife, Miriam. They separated at some point so he could lead a monastic life. He left Cappadocia to return to the land of his birth in about 280. He hoped to atone for his father's crime by evangelizing his homeland.
Tiridates III was the son of King Khosrov II. He had Gregory imprisoned because he was the son of his father's enemy. He was imprisoned for twelve to fourteen years in a pit on the Ararat plain. Diocletian, the Roman emperor, invaded the territory in 297. Gregory was called from the pit to restore Tiridates to explain the gospel. He was consecrated as bishop in 300.
Tiridates was baptized along with members of the royal court and the upper class in 301. Gregory was given approval by royal decree to evangelize and baptize the entire nation. Christianity became the state religion for the kingdom.
The official date for the conversion of Armenia is 301. This was prior to the conversion experience of Constantine in 312. Constantine wasn't baptized until 337. It was just prior to his death.
Gregory organized and controlled the church for a quarter of a century. Priests were converted from paganism as titular leaders. He established 12 episcopal sees with 400 urban and rural dioceses. Preachers were sent to neighboring nations. His younger son took part in the Council of Nicea in 325.
Gregory died about 332. Armenian Christians remember him with gratitude to this day.
Armenians were the first people to adopt Christianity as the state religion. The Armenian Church has claimed that the Apostles Thaddeus and Bartholomew had evangelized the territory.
The mission of Thaddeus is said to have extended through the years 35 to 43. Bartholomew preached from 44 to 60. The ancient churches of Artaz (Maku) and Aghpak (Bashkalé) in southeastern Armenia contain their graves according to tradition.
The historian Eusebius mentions a letter dated 254 from the Patriarch Dionysius of Alexandria to Bishop Mehrouzhan (Mitrozanes) about the brethren in Armenia.
Armenian was one of the languages that was heard on the day of Pentecost according to Tertullian (155-222). The text of the Acts the Apostles mentions Judea as situated between Mesopotamia and Cappadocia.
How is it we hear we every man in the tongue from the land wherein we were born? Parthians, Medes, Elamites, the dwellers in Mesopotamia, in Judea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia. . . ." (Acts 2:8-9)
The name Judea was erroneously inserted by some copyist. Judea was not a foreign country. It was the place in which they were situated at the time. To hear its language spoken would be naturally expected.
Map of First Century Roman Empire CE
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Tertullian asserted that the passage was about the "Christ of the nations." The revelation was directed to those countries that were known to exist outside of Judea.
Armenia was known to be prominent as a buffer state between the Romans and the Parthians. Armenia extended to the Black Sea at the time. It was geographically situated between Mesopotamia and Cappadocia. It must have been one of the nations whose language was heard on the Day of Pentecost.
Gregory was ordained bishop in 302. He founded the Cathedral of Etchmiadzin near Mount Ararat in 303. The cathedral is the seat of the supreme patriarch or catholicos, the head of the Armenian Church to this day.
Gregory
格雷戈里
格雷戈里
格 Ge grid 格 go status; rank Gu ぐ グ Geu 그 that
雷 lei thunder 雷 rai thunder re れ レ le 레 re
戈 ge spear 戈 ka arms go ご ゴ go 고 the
里 li inside 里 ri village ri り- リ- li 리 Lee
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Thought is the arrow that leads speech for good news.
Speech thunders with status for each rank to choose.
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http://satucket.com/lectionary/Gregory_Illuminator.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_the_Illuminator
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Asia/Armenia/_Texts/KURARM/36*.html
