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act as if you did

truth 2024. 8. 18. 21:17

act /as if you did.

 

The rule for all of us is perfectly simple. 

Do not waste time /bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbour; 

act /as if you did.

As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. 

 

When you are behaving /as if you loved someone,

you will presently come /to love him.

If you injure someone () you dislike, you will find [yourself] [disliking him more]. 

 

*  If someone comes to do something, they do it at the end of a long process or period of time. 

 

If you do him a good turn, you will find [yourself] [disliking him less].

There is, indeed, one exception. 

 

* DO (SOMEONE) A GOOD TURN : 1. to do something kind that helps someone else: 

 

If you do him a good turn, 

not to please God and obey the law of charity, 

but to show him what a fine forgiving chap you are

and to put him in your debt, and then sit down to wait for his ‘gratitude’, 

you will probably be disappointed

(People are not fools: they have a very quick eye for anything like showing off, or patronage.) 

 

But whenever we do good to another self, 

just because it is a self, made (like us) by God, and desiring its own happiness /as we desire ours, 

we shall have learned [to love it /a little more or, at least, to dislike it less].

 

* 형용사로 쓰인 what : how remarkable or striking for good or bad qualities ; What a charming girl!

* it = self

* 형역 현분사 forgiving 현분사의 능동 주체인 chap 수식, 

* 삽입구인 형역 과분사구 made (like us) by God, 과분사의 수동 주체인 a self 수식 

* 삽입구인 형역 현분사구 desiring its own happiness as we desire ours,  현분사의 능동 주체인 a self 수식,


From Mere Christianity
Compiled in A Year with C.S. Lewis

Mere Christianity. Copyright © 1952, C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Copyright renewed © 1980, C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. A Year With C.S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works. Copyright © 2003 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.