crown of thorns

The author has something to say: I finally finished the first draft of my graduation thesis. TVT is terrible, and I was drunk after sleeping for seven hours in three days.Passed out from exhaustion last night.I wrote the "Spring and Autumn Classics" and used the "Chunqiu Zuozhuan Gu" as the base. I consulted many classics, and the entire thesis was written in classical Chinese, which may have taken a little longer.Foreign language translation Thanks to Mr. Mirror for your help, otherwise it will be too late.Anyway, after the hellish process of writing a dissertation, it's finally over! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !good! !open! !Heart! ! !

For the LORD your God who is among you is a jealous God, lest the wrath of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and destroy you from the face of the earth.

………………………………………………………——The Bible·Old Testament·Deuteronomy

The LORD said to me, "Come with me, Raziel, to Noah, for I have something to say to him."

I went down with God until we reached the ground. Noah was feeding his sheep and grazing. His family was poor. There were only two thin sheep, one of which had just had a lamb, and that lamb was still kneeling on the ground sucking the ewe's milk.

When Noah saw Yahweh, he prostrated himself and worshiped Yahweh, and exclaimed loudly, "A light from heaven came down to earth, and I saw my King!"

The LORD touched Noah's head and said, "Noah, of all the people on earth, you alone have found favor in my eyes."

Noah burst into tears and said, "Lord, please wash your feet and eat that lamb, which is the firstborn."

The LORD looked at it and said, "Okay, you offer that lamb."

Noah raised the knife to kill the lamb, but the ewe refused to obey. Seeing Noah raise the knife, she took the lamb and tried to escape. killed.

I saw this by God's side and didn't say a word.

The LORD said, "Isn't it a pity? If you kill all three sheep, you will have no sheep in the future."

Noah said, "How can these three sheep be compared to the LORD? Even if there are a thousand or ten thousand sheep, if they are made out of the LORD's hand, what is wrong with offering them to the LORD? Even if the LORD wants to take My life, can I not obey?"

The LORD nodded and smiled and said, "Noah, bring up that lamb." Noah offered the lamb to the LORD, and the LORD ate the lamb, and said to me, "I have eaten Noah's The lamb that was presented was to be given to Noah as a testimony of the covenant between us, Rachel, what do you think is suitable?"

I thought for a while and said, "Doesn't the Lord have something to say? Please pass it on to him and let him know."

After hearing this, the LORD nodded and said, "Listen, Noah, I ate your lamb because the people of the whole earth are now as lost as the lamb. They are lost and they don't know where they are going. , I don’t know the north and the south, they already don’t have me in their hearts, when your own father, grandfather, and great-grandfather go to the earth to sleep together, I will send down a flood and wipe out all living things on the earth.”

When Noah heard this, he prostrated himself on the ground and begged the Lord, "Lord, what a fallacy we have done to come to such a field."

The LORD stroked Noah's head and said, "Get the fear out of you. You are a favored man before my eyes. I eat the lamb you offered today, and I will preserve the lives of your family for the sake of the lamb. , because you have found favor in my sight."

Noah kowtowed countless times in thanks.The LORD took the blood of the ram and the ewe that Noah had killed, and put them on his forehead respectively, saying, "Because of the blood of this ram, your house will be saved."

Then the LORD charged Noah, saying, “The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is full of their violence, and I will destroy them with the earth. Build the ark one by one, and smear the inside and the outside with pitch resin. This is how to build the ark: It must be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

Let the light shine through on the top of the ark, one cubit high.The door of the ark shall be opened beside it.The ark was divided into upper, middle and lower layers.Behold, I will bring floods upon the earth.Every living thing that has flesh and blood and breath on the ground dies.I will make a covenant with you.You will enter into the ark with your wife, with your son, and with your son's wife.Every living creature of flesh and blood, two of each kind, one male and one female, you shall bring into the ark, so that it may be preserved with you.Every bird according to its kind, every animal according to its kind, and every creeping thing on the ground according to its kind, two of each will come to you to preserve its life.Store up every kind of food, that it may be food for you and for them. [Note: This passage is directly quoted from the "Bible", and there is a contradiction in the original text. In this verse, it says to bring a male and a female, and in the next verse, it says that clean animals should bring seven males and seven females, and unclean animals should bring a male and a female. One female, the flying birds brought seven males and seven females, because if the animals took one male and one female, the great flood receded and the ark was out, and Noah would not be able to sacrifice. No, so the next section has been supplemented and revised, but the previous section remains the same. The "Bible" text is composed of multiple books, and there are inevitably inconsistencies. Because I have a novelization here Therefore, it is still written as one male and one female.]

The LORD turned to me and said, "Raziel, this covenant has a place. What kind of covenant do you think it is?"

I thought for a while and said: "Every living thing on the earth died, but Noah and his family were saved, but the Lord did this for Noah's faith. This covenant cannot be called the covenant of immortality, but the covenant of the Lamb." because the LORD ate the lamb that Noah sacrificed."

The LORD said: "This is a fitting word. Did I not destroy it because I did not want to perish? I made a covenant with Noah for his faith. This covenant shall be called the covenant of the great Lamb, for they are like those who have gone astray and do not know where they are. Lamb, I save them from disaster, as if I stretched out my hand to show the lamb."

After this incident, Noah began to build a large ship. He could not build it to perfection with his own strength, because he was a mortal. How could such a large ship be built by himself? The Lord was on him. A miracle was performed that enabled him to be perfected.Angels came down to help him build, and the animals he liked were clean animals. These living creatures also helped him build a boat, find wood for him, and even help him apply rosin.

Michael asked me, "Is the living thing that this man chooses at will considered clean?"

I said in a low voice, "He has the miracle of the Lord, but these living creatures are actually chosen by the Lord." All things in the world have different lives. For example, some insects only live for one night, while wild animals have dozens In [-], Noah spent many years building the ark, but none of the living creatures he selected died. It can be seen that Noah could not have done this alone.

During these days, the angels were still discussing about the flood, and I also felt doubts in my heart. After leaving work once, I found Lucifer. I asked him what he thought about this matter, because I felt He wouldn't agree with this matter, but when he was in Gaotian's assembly, he asked me to say something I agreed with.

He took my hand and said, "I know you will come to me, so follow me."

The two of us turned into two rays of light and descended to the boundary of the earth.

This territory was under the dominion of a king, a tyrant called Lamech, who tortured all the people in his kingdom, and squeezed what little food they had.He said: "When a man kills Cain, he will be recompensed sevenfold; if he kills Lamech, he will be recompensed seventy-seven times." Jehovah.He also imprisoned his younger brother, a man named Ittigas.We went down to see Etigas in the cell, but we didn't show our real body, but turned into two sparrows, watching him from the window.

Ittikis was beaten and thrown into prison because Lamech was afraid that he would compete with him for the throne.We saw that he was covered in blood, that he was emitting a stench in the prison, and that maggots grew on his broken leg. He smashed the pottery vase and scraped off the carrion that was infested with worms, crying in pain while scraping.

I asked Lucifer, "What kind of person is this Etigas?"

Lucifer said: "He distributed his property to the poor in the country, but the poor thought him stupid. Some of them told him that this man divided their property in order to buy people's hearts and compete for the throne. Lamech gave a reward. The informer, beat Etikas, cut off the flesh on his back and legs with a razor blade, and put him in prison, I'm afraid he won't survive tonight."

I thought that the poor should be grateful when they receive alms, but today I feel that the corruption of human nature has reached this point.

"I just saw the viciousness of human nature today." I said to Lucifer.

"How many people in the world are not vicious? You are full of sympathy, thinking that everyone understands your painstaking efforts. In fact, people in this world are all for their own benefit. Does Etiga have no desire to fight for the throne?"

"You mean to say that he really did this to buy people's hearts?"

"He is not only trying to buy people's hearts, but also helping the poor. Why must these two things be contradictory?"

"Then should we save him?"

Lucifer asked me instead: "Then do you think people on earth should die?"

I still have doubts in my heart, but seeing that almost all the people in this world have become hopelessly corrupt, I can only say, "Is that why you asked me to agree with the Lord? I understand, but since people are so hopeless, shouldn’t they be extinct?”

Lucifer said, "No."

"Why is this? Don't you also think that human beings are extremely corrupt?"

"It shouldn't be ten times worse than this. I only need to choose the sages I need, and the rest should be left to fend for themselves. Because they like violence, then satisfy their wishes, the price they will pay for it in the future, and even It’s all done by ourselves, if we destroy them, wouldn’t they blame us instead? Why should we do this?”

"Do you not care if good people are oppressed all their lives?" I found it very strange.

"If good people are oppressed, do you think they should complain or not?" Lucifer asked me again.

"You shouldn't complain...Since you are a really good person, why should you complain? You should forgive the sins of this world."

"Why don't you complain? Good people don't complain, they wait to be oppressed, and they suffer for nothing. Why don't you resist? You lose yourself, but others benefit. This is stupid. Why don't you kill your oppressors, rape Your king, how about being a king yourself? Wouldn’t it be better if you were really good people and became kings? They didn’t become kings for the sake of violence, they became kings to defeat violence. Such A good man is a sage, otherwise he is a fool, and he will not be favored in front of me. Fear the dark world, pray to hide from the world, and keep silent when suffering, or seek death and life, or rest and worry too much."

"Then how does justice come out?"

"People always expect the Lord to give them justice, so they give up their own way of seeking justice. Such people are weak and cannot be considered wise. The earth is full of violence, and the Lord will destroy the people on the earth. Isn’t it the lazy spirit of people? People think that in the end everything is determined by God, and the wicked will be condemned by God. But if you don’t fight with wisdom, what’s the point of being condemned by God? People should be strong by themselves. In the end, I never surrendered, so I favor those who fight for righteousness. If they become kings, I will hold them up so that they will not fall. If they die on the road of resistance in this life, I will build for them underground House of eternal righteousness, take them in."

After scraping off the carrion, Yitijia booed us at the window: "Two sparrows are chirping, it's so noisy."

I looked at Etiga and said, "Is this man a sage?"

"Isn't it a good thing for him to be king? He was a prince who distributed property to the poor and bought their hearts in order to kill his cruel and immoral brother. Although killing a brother is evil in the eyes of the Lord, I As I said before, the relationship between good and evil is not absolute. His brother was cruel and innocent. Thousands of people died at his brother's hands, and tens of thousands fell at his feet. You don't kill this tyrant, don't you? Waiting for this tyrant to come and kill you? This is what a wise man does."

"Then why don't we go rescue him?" I looked at his appearance, his legs were covered in blood, his appearance was horrible.

"I've already saved him." Lucifer said meaningfully.