시 에스 루이스 글 읽기 64

Which is the right side?

Which is the right side? They were all still wondering [what to do next],when Lucy said, “Look! There’s a robin, with such a red breast.It’s the first bird () I’ve seen here. I say!—I wonder, can birds talk in Narnia?  It almost looks /as if it wanted to say something to us.”  Then she turned /to the Robin and said, “Please, can you tell us where Tumnus the Faun has been taken to?”  As she said ..

the Present is the point /at which time touches eternity.

the Present is the point /at which time touches eternity. [The demon Screwtape writes:]  The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity.  He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time //which they call the Present.  For the Present is the point /at which time touches eternity.  Of the present moment, and of it ..

The ‘Day’ of Judgement is ‘that day of wrath'

The ‘Day’ of Judgement is ‘that day of wrath'   If there is any thought //at which a Christian trembles it is the thought of God’s ‘judgement’.  The ‘Day’ of Judgement is ‘that day of wrath, that dreadful day’.  We pray for God to deliver us ‘in the hour of death and at the day of judgement’.  Christian art and literature for centuries have depicted its terrors.  This note in Christianity certai..

All the worst pleasures] are purely spiritual

All the worst pleasures] are purely spiritual  If anyone thinks that Christians regard unchastity as the supreme vice, he is quite wrong. The sins of the flesh are bad, but they are the least bad of all sins.  [All the worst pleasures] are purely spiritual:the pleasure of putting other people in the wrong,of bossing and patronising and spoiling sport, and back-biting,the pleasures of power, of h..

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. 복리로 증가하는 선과 악

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. 복리로 증가하는 선과 악 That is why [the little decisions () you and I make /every day] are of such infinite importance.  * 종절 주어인 명사구, the little decisions (that) you and I make /every day* are (the little decisions) of such infinite importance.   명사가 생략된 것으로 볼 수도 있지만 전치사구 역시도 보어역할을 하므로 '보어에 관련된 것이다'로 이해할 수도 있음 The smallest good act today is the capture o..

Love is not merely a feeling 사랑은 단순히 감정만이 아니다

Love is not merely a feeling 사랑은 단순히 감정만이 아니다 If [the old fairy-tale ending ‘They lived happily ever after’] is taken to mean ‘They felt /for the next fifty years/exactly as they felt /the day before they were married’,then it says [what probably never was nor ever would be true, and would be highly undesirable /if it were]. * be taken to mean is used to introduce a definition or interpretation ..

forgiving does not mean excusing 용서하기는 용인하기를 의미하지 않는다

forgiving does not mean excusing 용서하기는 용인하기를 의미하지 않는다  When it comes to a question of our forgiving other people, it is partly the same and partly different. It is the same because, here also, forgiving does not mean excusing.  * when it comes to~ ; in regards to * 전목인 동명사구 our forgiving other people, 소유격은 동명사의 동작자 표시로 쓰임 Many people seem to think () it does. They think that if you ask them to f..