一月ほど前にＮＨＫで新渡戸稲造と内村鑑三についての番組がありました。新渡戸の武士道は読んだ事があります。内村鑑三についてはほとんど何も知らなかったのですが、番組を見て大いに興味を持ちました。そこで内村の書いた本が地元の図書館にあるか調べたところ "Representative Men of Japan" があるのが分かり借りることにしました。借りた本は講談社インターナショナル出版の本（英語は１９０８年の改訂版）で、内村が英語で書いた原文に日本語の訳を付けた対訳本です。新渡戸の本を読んだ時にも思ったのですが、明治の人の英語力は感心するばかりです。現在の様に教材や辞書等々が豊富では無かった時代なのに英米の人に読ませるために英語で書いていたのは驚きです。 "Representative Men of Japan" は内村より前の時代の偉人を西洋人に紹介する内容で、最初に取り上げるのは西郷隆盛です。次ぎに引用する個所はその前書きの部分からです。
Matthew Calbraith Perry of the he United States Navy to be one of the greatest friends of Humanity the world ever seen. In his diaries we read that he bombarded the shores of Japan with doxologies, and not with ordnance. His mission was a delicate one of waking up a hermit nation without doing injury to its dignity, yet keeping its native pride at bay. His was the task of a true missionary, done with Heaven's gracious help, with many an invocation to the Ruler of nations.
文語的な文章で難しい単語が出て来ました。 "doxologies" の意味を調べます。
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: a usually liturgical expression of praise to God
・Merriam-Webster's for kid: an expression of praise to God
・Oxford English Dictionary: a liturgical formula of praise to God: after the singing of the doxology the congregation separated
・Vocabulary.com: You're most likely to hear a doxology in a Christian church, since it's a short religious verse or prayer that is sung.
The brief chant or song that comes at the end of a prayer in a Catholic church is one kind of doxology. In the Lord's Prayer, which is common in many different Christian churches, the final line ending in "forever and ever, amen," was added on to the original ancient Biblical manuscripts and is considered a doxology. The word comes from the Greek doxologia, "praise or glory," a combination of doxa, "glory," and logos, "a speaking."
なるほど、内村鑑三はクリスチャンなのでこの様な言葉が出てくるのですね。
Matthew Calbraith Perry of the he United States Navy to be one of the greatest friends of Humanity the world ever seen. In his diaries we read that he bombarded the shores of Japan with doxologies, and not with ordnance. His mission was a delicate one of waking up a hermit nation without doing injury to its dignity, yet keeping its native pride at bay. His was the task of a true missionary, done with Heaven's gracious help, with many an invocation to the Ruler of nations.
文語的な文章で難しい単語が出て来ました。 "doxologies" の意味を調べます。
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: a usually liturgical expression of praise to God
・Merriam-Webster's for kid: an expression of praise to God
・Oxford English Dictionary: a liturgical formula of praise to God: after the singing of the doxology the congregation separated
・Vocabulary.com: You're most likely to hear a doxology in a Christian church, since it's a short religious verse or prayer that is sung.
The brief chant or song that comes at the end of a prayer in a Catholic church is one kind of doxology. In the Lord's Prayer, which is common in many different Christian churches, the final line ending in "forever and ever, amen," was added on to the original ancient Biblical manuscripts and is considered a doxology. The word comes from the Greek doxologia, "praise or glory," a combination of doxa, "glory," and logos, "a speaking."
なるほど、内村鑑三はクリスチャンなのでこの様な言葉が出てくるのですね。
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