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CHAPTER III SOME PROPHETS OF THE INNER WAY
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I
THE PSALMIST’S WAY
Emerson’s friend, Margaret Fuller, coined the phrase, “standing1 the universe.” “I can stand the universe,” was her brave statement. But long before Concord2 was discovered or “the transcendental school” was dreamed of a school of Hebrew saints had learned how to stand the universe.
Canaan, with all its milk and honey, was never a land arranged by pre?stablished harmony as a paradise for the idealist. It enjoyed no special millennium3 privileges. Whatever rainbow dreams may have filled the mind of optimistic prophets were always quickly put to flight by the iron facts of the rigid4 world[71] which ringed them round. The Philistines5 were pitiless neighbors. Like Gawain, they were spiritually too blind even to have desires to see. Coats of mail, gigantic spear heads, iron chariots, and Goliath champions were their arguments. How could a nation like Israel be free to work out its spiritual career with these crude materialistic6 Philistines always hanging on its borders and always threatening its national existence? When the Philistines were temporarily quiet there were Moabites, or Edomites, or Syrians ready to take a turn at hampering7 the ideals of Israel. And worse still was ahead. From the time of the battle of Karkar (854 b.c.) on, the armies of Assyria had to be reckoned with. Here was another pitiless foe8; efficient, militant9, inventive, with a culture and religion suited to its genius, but as ruthless as a wolf toward everything in its path. It smashed whatever it struck and in the course of events Jerusalem was ground in its
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| 密集( swarm的过去式和过去分词 ); 云集; 成群地移动; 蜜蜂或其他飞行昆虫成群地飞来飞去 | |
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jeopardy
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warfare
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testimony
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reconstruction
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captivity
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adversaries
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jeer
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abides
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| 容忍( abide的第三人称单数 ); 等候; 逗留; 停留 | |
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travail
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utterance
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nostrils
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perplexed
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needy
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| 缝…的褶边( hem的过去式和过去分词 ); 包围 | |
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throbbing
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consecration
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interpretation
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| n.解释,说明,描述;艺术处理 | |
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parable
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buttresses
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citation
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scripture
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| n.经文,圣书,手稿;Scripture:(常用复数)《圣经》,《圣经》中的一段 | |
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dedication
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reinterpretation
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ministry
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| 安抚,抚慰( appease的过去式和过去分词 ); 绥靖(满足另一国的要求以避免战争) | |
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incense
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contention
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| n.争论,争辩,论战;论点,主张 | |
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appeasing
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| 安抚,抚慰( appease的现在分词 ); 绥靖(满足另一国的要求以避免战争) | |
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ordained
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ascetic
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antagonistic
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loyalty
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suffrage
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rivalry
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unnatural
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compartments
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binds
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ethical
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