For I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.
我告诉你们:从前有许多先知和君王要看你们所看的,却没有看见;要听你们所听的,却没有听见。They dispatched orders to stop the sack of the city, which had already commenced, and to assemble their scattered troops.
两位君王一进城便下令停止已蔓延开来的抢劫,并把分散的队伍聚集拢来。POET IS a dethroned king sitting among the ashes of his palace trying to fashion an image out of the ashes.
诗人是一个退位的君王,坐在他的宫殿的灰烬里,想用残灰捏出一个形象。And he took gold, and silver, and raiment, and many other presents, and went to the king to Ptolemais, and he found favour in his sight.
且带著金银、衣服和许多别的礼品,前往仆托肋买,来会见君王,甚得君王的欢心。And the king answering, shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me.
君王便回答他们说:我实在告诉你们:凡你们对我这些最小兄弟中的一个所做的,就是对我做的。In feeding the people who came out to hear him, Jesus assumes the role of the Shepherd-King prophesied by Jeremiah.
耶稣喂饱了那些前来听祂讲道的人,正扮演了耶利米预言中所指的那位善牧君王。In a later revision he used the word Jockey (that's dated around 1529) to mean "little man" of the dead Scottish king.
在之后的修订版中,他使用这个词Jockey(那大约可以追溯到1529年左右)来形容已故苏格兰君王的“卑鄙”。Lao Zi's "not contending" is not a more sophisticated sort of contending. He was not promoting the craftiness of monarchy.
老子讲的“不争”并不是一种高明的争,他不是在提倡君王南面之术。A man of faith was asked to leave by a heathen king!
一位信心伟人被一个异教君王下了逐客令!