tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51140174001235493312024-03-12T17:09:01.093-07:00Classics & the BibleExploring Scriptural references in classic literature.Adriana@ClassicalQuesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06718229975590311860noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114017400123549331.post-40965244754567475092014-11-09T09:06:00.008-08:002014-11-09T09:07:58.635-08:00Anna Karenina: Part 7, Chapter 10<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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In Part 7, Chapter 10 of <i>Anna Karenina, </i>Konstantin Levin and Stephan <span style="background-color: white;">Arkadyevich pay a visit to Anna at her Moscow apartment. In the study they are greeted by Anna and introduced to another guest named Vorkuev. Levin admires a portrait of Anna and which was painted in Italy. They all engage in a discussion of the current trend in art. Levin is impressed with Anna and her opinion of realism.</span><br />
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<i>The conversation turned on the new movement in art, on the <span style="background-color: white;">new</span><span style="background-color: #e69138;"> illustrations of the Bible by a French artist</span>. Vorkuyev attacked the artist for a realism carried to the point of coarseness. </i><i>Levin said that the French had carried conventionality in art further than anyone, and that consequently they see a great merit in the return to realism. In the very fact that they do not lie they see poetry. </i><i>Never had anything clever said by Levin given him so much pleasure as this remark. Anna's face lighted up at one, as at once she appreciated the thought. She laughed.</i><i></i></blockquote>
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<i>"I laugh," she said. "as one laughs when one sees a very striking likeness. What you said so perfectly describes French art now, painting and literature too, indeed -- Zola, Daudet. But perhaps it is always so, than men form their conceptions from imaginary, conventional types, and then -- all the combinations made -- they are tired of the imaginary figures and begin to invent more natural, true figures."</i><i><br /></i><i></i></blockquote>
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According<span style="background-color: white;"> to the footnote in my Modern Library Classics edition, the French artist referred to in this scene is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Dor%C3%A9">Gustave Dore</a>. He was commissioned to illustrate an English Bible in 1853. The following are some examples of Dore's depictions of biblical scenes.</span></div>
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Adriana@ClassicalQuesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06718229975590311860noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114017400123549331.post-63673677625500413352014-11-02T01:57:00.002-07:002014-11-02T08:12:56.716-08:00Anna Karenina: Part 7, Chapter 9<br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">In part 7, chapter 9 of <i>Anna Karenina</i>, Levin and Stephan Arkadyevich converse about Anna while en route to her apartment in Moscow.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Stephan Arkadyevich pursued, "I don't hesistate to say that she's a remarkable woman. But you will see. Her position is very painful, especially now."</i><i><br /></i><i></i></span></blockquote>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We are carrying on negotiations with her husband about a divorce. And he's agreed; but there are difficulties in regard to the son, and the business, which ought to have been arranged long ago, has been dragging on for three months now. As soon as the divorce is over, she will marry Vronsky. How stupid that old ceremony is, walking round and round and singing <span style="background-color: #f6b26b;">Rejoice, O Isaiah! </span>that no one believes in and that stands in the way of happiness of people," Stephan Arkadyevich put in. "Well, then their situation will be as regular as mine, and yours."</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; text-align: left;">This is a reference to part of an Orthodox Christian wedding ceremony.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><i>Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. </i>( Isaiah 7:14)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.wikiart.org/en/nikolay-bogdanov-belsky/the-wedding"><i>The Wedding</i>, Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky</a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20.3636360168457px;"><i>Marriage becomes more than a mere human institution, existing for whatever purpose a society assigns it. It becomes, like the Church Herself, a sign that God's Kingdom has already begun in our midst . . .</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20.3636360168457px;"><i><br /></i></span><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20.3636360168457px;"> </span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20.3636360168457px;">. . . [There is a] triple procession around the center table: the "Dance of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: 20.3636360168457px; text-decoration: none;" title="Isaiah">Isaiah</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20.3636360168457px;">". The priest, holding the Gospel or Blessing Cross and the clasped hands of the groom and bride, and followed by the best man (or woman) who holds the newlyweds' crowns above their heads, and the bridesmaids holding the lit white candles, walk three counterclockwise turns around the table in a celebratory "dance". </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20.3636360168457px;">Each of the three turns is accompanied by each of the three hymns, which return once more to the theme of martyrdom and union with Christ. These are the hymns that, since ancient times, the Church has used to emphasize God's blessings, and the same ones sung at ordinations to ecclesiastical orders. They signify that this couple has been set apart from the mundane world to live a life in Christ:</span></i></blockquote>
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<i>Rejoice, O <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Isaiah">Isaiah</a>! The Virgin is with child,</i></div>
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<i>And shall bear a son Emmanuel,</i></div>
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<i>Both God and Man,</i></div>
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<i>Whom magnifying we call, the Virgin blessed.</i></div>
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<i>O Holy <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyr" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Martyr">Martyrs</a>,</i></div>
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<i>who fought the good fight and have received your crowns,</i></div>
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<i>That He will have mercy on our souls.</i></div>
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<i>Glory to Thee, O Christ our God,</i></div>
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<i>The <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostles" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Apostles">Apostles</a> boast,</i></div>
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<i>whose preaching was the Consubstantial <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Trinity">Trinity</a>. </i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24.4720001220703px; text-align: justify;">Though Stephan Arkadyevich mocks this event by referring it as a "stupid old ceremony." It is the very sacredness of this moment that Tolstoy holds up as ideal. </span><span style="background-color: white;">The scene is described in detail earlier in the novel during the wedding of Levin and Kitty. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24.4720001220703px; text-align: justify;">It is a moment of great joy and community participation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24.4720001220703px; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="background-color: white;">They enjoyed hearing the Epistle read, and the roll of the protodeacon’s voice at the last verse, awaited with such impatience by the outside public. They enjoyed drinking out of the shallow cup of warm red wine and water, and they were still more pleased when the priest, flinging back his stole and taking both their hands in his, led them round the lectern to the accompaniment of bass voices chanting: </span><span style="background-color: #f6b26b;">“Isaiah rejoice!”</span><span style="background-color: white;"> Shcherbatsky and Chirikov, supporting the crowns and stumbling over the bride’s train, smiling too and seeming delighted at something, were at one moment left behind, at the next treading on the bridal pair as the priest came to a halt. The spark of joy kindled in Kitty seemed to have infected everyone in the church. It seemed to Levin that the priest and the deacon too wanted to smile, just as he did.</span></i></span></blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24.4720001220703px; text-align: justify;"> In contrast, Anna is now experiencing </span><span style="line-height: 24.4720001220703px;">loneliness and despair as a result of violating her marriage vows.</span><br />
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Anna's son Seryozha ponders death while his father drills him in a Bible lesson on the Old Testament patriarchs:<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In death, of which they talked to him so often, Seryozha disbelieved entirely. He did not believe that those he loved could die -- above all, that he himself would die. That was to him something utterly inconceivable and impossible. But he had been told that all men die; he had asked people, those whom he trusted, and they too had confirmed it; his old nurse, too, said the same, though reluctantly. But Enoch had not died, and so it followed that not everyone did die. "And why cannot anyone else so serve God and be taken alive to heaven? thought Seryozha. Bad people, that is, those Seryozha did not like, they might die, but the good might all be like Enoch.</span></blockquote>
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Adriana@ClassicalQuesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06718229975590311860noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114017400123549331.post-1411323931485835002013-03-24T00:11:00.000-07:002013-04-07T05:41:21.604-07:00Anna Karenina: Part V, Chapter 25<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 21px;">Several weeks have passed since Anna Karenina left her husband for Count Vronsky. She has begun to deeply miss her son, Seroyzha. She hopes her husband, Aleksey Aleksandrovich Karenin, will permit her to have access to him. She has sent</span><span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><a href="http://classicsandthebible.blogspot.com/2013/03/anna-karenina-part-v-chapter-23.html" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 21px;">a letter of appeal</a><span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 21px;">to the Countess Lydia Ivanovna, who is now managing all of Karenin's household affairs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After some words of preparation, Countess Lydia Ivanovna, breathing hard and flushing crimson, put into Aleksey Aleksandrovich's hands the letter she had received.</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After reading the letter, he sat a long while in silence.</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"I don't think I have the right to refuse her," he said, timidly raising his eyes.</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Dear friend, you never see evil in anyone!"</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"On the contrary, I see that all is evil. But whether it is fair --"</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">His face showed irresolution, was seeking counsel, support, and guidance in a matter he did not understand.</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"No," Countess Lydia Ivanovna interrupted him, "there are limits to everything. I can understand immorality," she said, not quite truthfully, since she never could understand that which leads women to immorality, "but I can't understand cruelty, and to whom? To you! How can she stay in the town where you are? No, the longer one lives, the more one learns. And I'm learning to understand your loftiness and her baseness."</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f1c232;"></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f1c232;">"Who is to throw a stone?"</span> said Aleksey Aleksandrovich, unmistakably pleased with the part he had to play. "I have forgiven all, and so I cannot deprive her of what is exacted by love in her -- by her love for her son . . ."</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"But what is love, my friend? Is it sincere? Admitting that you have forgiven -- that you forgive -- have we the right to work on the feelings of that angel? He looks on her as dead. He prays for her, and beseeches God to have mercy on her sins. And it is better so. But now what will he think?</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="text John-8-3" id="en-KJV-26385"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">3 </sup>And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,</span><span class="text John-8-4"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;"><br /></sup></span><span class="text John-8-4" id="en-KJV-26386"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;"></sup></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="text John-8-4" id="en-KJV-26386"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">4 </sup>They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.</span><span class="text John-8-5"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;"><br /></sup></span><span class="text John-8-5" id="en-KJV-26387"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;"></sup></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="text John-8-5" id="en-KJV-26387"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">5 </sup>Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?</span><span class="text John-8-6"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;"><br /></sup></span><span class="text John-8-6" id="en-KJV-26388"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;"></sup></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="text John-8-6" id="en-KJV-26388"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">6 </sup>This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.</span><span class="text John-8-7"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;"><br /></sup></span><span class="text John-8-7" id="en-KJV-26389"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;"></sup></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="text John-8-7" id="en-KJV-26389"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">7 </sup>So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.</span><span class="text John-8-8"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;"><br /></sup></span><span class="text John-8-8" id="en-KJV-26390"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;"></sup></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="text John-8-8" id="en-KJV-26390"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">8 </sup>And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.</span><span class="text John-8-9" id="en-KJV-26391"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;"></sup></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="text John-8-9" id="en-KJV-26391"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">9 </sup>And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.</span><span class="text John-8-10" id="en-KJV-26392"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;"></sup></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="text John-8-10" id="en-KJV-26392"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">10 </sup>When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?</span><span class="text John-8-11" id="en-KJV-26393"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;"></sup></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="text John-8-11" id="en-KJV-26393"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">11 </sup>She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.</span><br /><span class="text John-8-12"><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+8&version=KJV"></a></span></span></blockquote>
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Adriana@ClassicalQuesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06718229975590311860noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114017400123549331.post-69735078321477622292013-03-17T03:54:00.001-07:002013-03-17T04:23:02.661-07:00Anna Karenina: Part V, Chapter 24<div style="text-align: center;">
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After his wife left him, Aleksey Aleksandrovich Karenin went through a deep emotional valley. He felt scorned and ostracized by society. Now that he has found faith, his perspective has changed.<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Aleksey Aleksandrovich did not merely fail to observe his hopeless position in the official world, he was not merely free from anxiety, he was positively more satisfied than ever with his own activity.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: #f1c232;">"He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: but he that is married careth for the things of the world, how he may please his wife</span>," says the Apostle Paul, and Aleksey Aleksandrovich, who was now guided in every action by Scripture, often recalled this text. It seemed to him that ever since he had been left without a wife he had in these very projects of reform been serving the Lord more zealously than before.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: #f1c232; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>"He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: but he that is married careth for the things of the world, how he may please his wife</i></span></blockquote>
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<i><span class="text 1Cor-7-32" id="en-KJV-28520"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">32 </sup>But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span class="text 1Cor-7-33" id="en-KJV-28521"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">33 </sup>But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span class="text 1Cor-7-34" id="en-KJV-28522"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">34 </sup>There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.</span></i></blockquote>
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Adriana@ClassicalQuesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06718229975590311860noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114017400123549331.post-69870922145183692722013-03-10T05:07:00.000-07:002013-03-10T05:07:03.804-07:00Anna Karenina: Part V, Chapter 23<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The news that Anna Karenina has left her husband, Aleksey Aleksandrovich Karenin, and is now living with Count Vronsky is now commonly known. The pair have spent a "honeymoon" in Italy and are passing through Petersburg. Anna has begun to deeply miss her son, Seroyzha. In hopes of being granted permission to visit him, see sends a letter of appeal to Karenin's close friend, The Countess Lydia Ivanovna, who is now managing all of Karenin's household affairs.<br />
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<i>"Madame La Comtesse --</i></blockquote>
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<i>The Christian feelings with which your heart is filled give me the, I feel, unpardonable boldness to write to you. I am miserable at being separated from my son. I entreat permission to see him once before my departure. Forgive me for recalling myself to your memory. I apply to you and not to Aleksey Aleksandrovich simply because I do not wish to cause that generous man to suffer in remembering me. Knowing your friendship for him, I know you will understand me. Could you send Seryozha to me, or should I come to the house at some fixed hour, or will you let me know when and where I could see him away from home? I do not anticipate a refusal, knowing the magnanimity of him with whom it rests. You cannot conceive the craving I have to see my son, and so cannot conceive the gratitude your help will arouse in me.</i><i><br /></i><i> </i><i> Anna " </i></blockquote>
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<i>Everything in this letter exasperated Countess Lydia Ivanovna; its contents and the allusion to magnanimity, and especially what seemed to her its free and easy tone.</i></blockquote>
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<i>"Say that there is no answer," said Countess Lydia Ivanovna, and immediately opening her blotting pad, she wrote to Aleksey Alexandrovich that she hoped to see him at one o'clock at the levee.</i></blockquote>
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<i>"I must talk with you of a grave and painful subject. There we will arrange where to meet. Best of all at my house, where I will have your tea ready. Urgent. <span style="background-color: #f1c232;">He sends a cross, but He sends the strength to bear it.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> " she added, so as to prepare him somewhat.</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="background-color: #f1c232;">He sends a cross, but He sends the strength to bear it.</span></i></blockquote>
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The Countess Lydia Ivanovna misuses Scripture here. She hopes to ease Karenin's conscience and conform his thoughts to her own agenda. She desires that Seryozha should never see his mother again.<br />
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The idea of "bearing one's cross" come from the Gospel of Luke.<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><sup class="versenum" style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">23 </sup><span style="background-color: white;">And [Jesus] said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+9&version=KJV">Luke 9:23-24</a></blockquote>
The promise that God will not put on us more than we can bear is from 1 Corinthians.<br />
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<i><sup class="versenum" style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top;"><br /></sup><b><sup class="versenum" style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top;">13</sup><sup class="versenum" style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top;"> </sup></b><span style="font-family: inherit;">There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.</span></i></blockquote>
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Adriana@ClassicalQuesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06718229975590311860noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114017400123549331.post-60692213078172832222013-03-03T03:31:00.002-08:002013-03-03T05:52:45.506-08:00Anna Karenina: Part V, Chapter 19<br />
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Levin has received word from his brother's former mistress, Marya Nikolaevna, that his brother Nikolai is dying. Nikolai is in a filthy hotel far away in a provincial town. Levin decides immediately to go to him alone. Kitty wants to go too. A heated discussion ensues.<br />
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<b>Levin</b>: <i>It's out of the question.</i><br />
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<b>Kitty</b>: <i>I tell you that if you go, I shall come with you; I shall certainly come . . . Why out of the question?</i><br />
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<b>Levin</b>: <i>Because it'll be going God knows where, by all sorts of roads and to all sorts of hotels. You would be a hindrance to me.</i><br />
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<b>Kitty</b>: <i>Not at all. I don't want anything. Where you can go, I can --</i><br />
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<b>Levin</b>: <i>Well for one thing, then, because this woman's there whom you can't associate with.</i><br />
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<b>Kitty</b>: <i>I don't know and I don't care to know who's there and what. I know that my husband's brother is dying and my husband is going to him, and I go with my husband too . . .</i><br />
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<b>Levin</b>:<i> Kitty! . . . If you'll be bored alone, go to Moscow.</i><br />
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<b>Kitty</b>: <i>There, you always ascribe base, vile motives to me . . . I feel that it's my duty to be with my husband when he's in trouble, but you try on purpose to hurt me, you try on purpose not to understand . . .</i><br />
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The argument escalates.<br />
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<b>Levin</b>: <i>This is awful! To be such a slave!</i><br />
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<b>Kitty</b>: <i>Then why did you marry? You could have been free. Why did you if you regret it?</i><br />
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Now Kitty is sobbing. Levin kisses her hand, her hair, her hand again.<br />
Silence.<br />
Levin takes her face in both his hands --"Kitty!"<br />
She recovers herself.<br />
They are reconciled.<br />
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So she goes with him on his journey to the dingy provincial town.<br />
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And she shines.<br />
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Upon arrival at the his brother's sickroom, Levin begins to unravel.<br />
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<i>He smelled the awful odor, saw the dirt, disorder, and miserable condition, he heard the groans, and thought that nothing could be done to help.</i></blockquote>
His blood runs cold. He is in agony. He paces in and out of the room. He cannot be natural and calm in his brother's presence.<br />
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<i>But Kitty thought and felt and acted quite differently.</i><i></i></blockquote>
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<i>On seeing the sick man, she pitied him. And pity in her womanly heart did not arouse at all the feeling of horror and loathing that it aroused in her husband, but a desire to act, to find out the details of his condition, and to remedy them. And since she had not the slightest doubt that it was her duty to help him, she had no doubt either that it was possible, and immediately set to work. The very details, the mere thought of which reduced her husband to terror, immediately engaged her attention . . .</i></blockquote>
Kitty sends for the doctor and the chemist. She orders her maid and Marya Nikolaevna to sweep and dust and scrub. She begins washing things. By her direction, items are carried into the sickroom and out. She fetches sheets, pillow cases, towels, and shirts from her room. And then, when she sees that Marya Nikolaevna and a servant are struggling to get Nikolai's long limp arm into the sleeve of his shirt, she swiftly closes the door (to prevent Levin from interfering) and comes to his aid.<br />
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She realizes that Nikolai is ashamed at being naked before her.<br />
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<i>"I'm not looking. I'm not looking!" she said, putting the arm in.</i></blockquote>
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And what does the dying Nicholai think of Kitty?<br />
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<i>When the doctor had gone away, the sick man said something to his brother, of which Levin could distinguish only the last words -- "your Katya." By the expression with which he gazed at her, Levin saw that he was praising her. He asked Katya, as he called [Kitty], to come closer.</i></blockquote>
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<i>"I'm much better already," he said. "Why with you I should have got well long ago. How nice it feels!" He took her hand and drew it toward his lips, but as though afraid she would dislike it, he changed his mind, let it go, and only stroked it. Kitty took his hand in both hers and pressed it.</i></blockquote>
In his last moments he mutters something. Kitty understands what he needs although no one else in the room can make out what he is saying. He wants to be turned over. As Levin lifts his heavy, powerless form, Kitty turns his pillow and fluffs it. She sits by his side and smooths his hair as he dies.<br />
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After Nicholai's death, Levin ponders what he was witnessed. He is amazed by Kitty's confidence -- how she dealt with death without fright or delay. He believes Kitty understands the <i>nature of death</i>. He knows he is more intelligent than his wife. But he knows too "that the brains of many great men, whose thoughts he had read, had brooded over death, and yet knew not a hundredth part of what his wife and [his housekeeper] knew about it."<br />
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<i><b>"Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes."</b> So Levin thought about his wife as he talked to her that night.</i></blockquote>
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<b><i>"Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes."</i></b></blockquote>
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<b><br /></b>Here Levin is referring to Luke 10:21-24 in which Christ commissions seventy disciples to preach the Gospel:<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><sup class="versenum" style="background-color: white; font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">21 </sup><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, <b>that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes</b>: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.</span></i></span> </blockquote>
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<span class="text Luke-10-22" id="en-KJV-25386"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">22 </sup>All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.</i></span></span><span class="text Luke-10-23" id="en-KJV-25387"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;"></sup></i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span class="text Luke-10-23" id="en-KJV-25387"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">23 </sup>And he turned him unto his disciples, and said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see:</i></span></span><span class="text Luke-10-24" id="en-KJV-25388"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;"></sup></i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span class="text Luke-10-24" id="en-KJV-25388"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">24 </sup>For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.</i></span></span></blockquote>
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Adriana@ClassicalQuesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06718229975590311860noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114017400123549331.post-10169207162500969852013-02-24T04:19:00.002-08:002013-02-24T04:19:29.267-08:00Anna Karenina: Part V, Chapter 22<br />
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In Part V, Chapter 22 of <i>Anna Karenina</i>, Alesky Aleksandrovich Karenin is alone and in despair. His wife Anna has left him for Count Vronsky, a military officer. He feels he can not endure the "weight of universal contempt and exasperation" which he sees in the faces of all he meets. At his most bitter moment, his friend the Countess Lydia Ivanovna comes to him. The warmth of her affection causes Karenin to break down.<br />
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"<i>Dear friend!" she said in a voice breaking with emotion. "You must not give way to grief. Your sorrow is great, but you must find consolation."</i><i><br /></i><i></i></blockquote>
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<i>"I am crushed, I am annihilated, I am no longer a man!" said Aleksey Aleksandrovich, . . . gazing into her brimming eyes. "My position is so awful because I can nowhere find support, not even in myself."</i><i><br /></i><i></i></blockquote>
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<i>"You will find support; seek it -- not in me, though I beseech you to believe in my friendship," she said, with a sigh. "<span style="background-color: #ea9999;">Our support is love, that He has vouchsafed us</span><b style="background-color: #ea9999;">.</b><b style="background-color: white;"> </b><span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;">His burden is light</span>," she said, with the look of ecstasy Aleksey Aleksandrovich knew so well.</i><i><br /></i><i></i></blockquote>
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<i>"He will be you support and your succor."</i></blockquote>
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<i>Though it seemed evident that she was moved by her own lofty sentiments, and by that new mystical fervor which had lately gained ground in Petersburg, and which seemed to Alekesey Aleksandrovich excessive, still it was gratifying to hear this now. </i></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: #ea9999;">Our support is love, that He has vouchsafed us</span><b style="background-color: #ea9999;">.</b></div>
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<i><br /></i><span class="text Rom-8-35" id="en-KJV-28152"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">35 </sup>Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?</i></span></span><span class="text Rom-8-36" id="en-KJV-28153"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;"></sup></i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span class="text Rom-8-36" id="en-KJV-28153"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">36 </sup>As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.</i></span></span><span class="text Rom-8-37" id="en-KJV-28154"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;"></sup></i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span class="text Rom-8-37" id="en-KJV-28154"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">37 </sup>Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.</i></span></span><span class="text Rom-8-38" id="en-KJV-28155"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;"></sup></i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span class="text Rom-8-38" id="en-KJV-28155"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">38 </sup>For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,</i></span></span><span class="text Rom-8-39" id="en-KJV-28156"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;"></sup></i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span class="text Rom-8-39" id="en-KJV-28156"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">39 </sup>Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.</i></span></span></blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+8&version=KJV">Romans 8:35-39</a></blockquote>
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<span class="text Matt-11-28" id="en-KJV-23488"><i><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">28 </sup>Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.</i></span><span class="text Matt-11-29" id="en-KJV-23489"><i><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;"></sup></i></span></blockquote>
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<span class="text Matt-11-29" id="en-KJV-23489"><i><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">29 </sup>Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.</i></span><span class="text Matt-11-30" id="en-KJV-23490"><i><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;"></sup></i></span></blockquote>
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<span class="text Matt-11-30" id="en-KJV-23490"><i><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">30 </sup>For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.</i></span></blockquote>
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Adriana@ClassicalQuesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06718229975590311860noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114017400123549331.post-31217354228992016622013-02-17T00:17:00.000-08:002013-02-17T00:17:26.316-08:00Anna Karenina: Part V, Chapter 11<br />
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<i>"How marvelous Christ's expression is!" said Anna. Of all she saw she liked that expression most of all, and felt that it was the center of the picture, and so praise of it would be pleasant to the artist. "One can see that He is pitying Pilate."</i><i><br /></i><i></i></blockquote>
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<i>This again was one of the million true reflections that could be found in his picture and in the figure of Christ. She said that He was pitying Pilate. In Christ's expression of love, of heavenly peace, of readiness for death, and a sense of the vanity of words. Of course there is the expression of an official in Pilate and of pity in Christ, seeing that one is the incarnation of the fleshly and the other of the spiritual life. All this and much more flashed into Mikhailov's thoughts.</i></blockquote>
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<i><span class="text 1Pet-2-20" id="en-KJV-30420"><span style="font-family: inherit;">...what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.</span></span><span class="text 1Pet-2-21" id="en-KJV-30421"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">21 </sup>For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:</span></span><span class="text 1Pet-2-22" id="en-KJV-30422"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">22 </sup>Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:</span></span><span class="text 1Pet-2-23" id="en-KJV-30423"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">23 </sup>Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:</span></span><span class="text 1Pet-2-24" id="en-KJV-30424"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">24 </sup>Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.</span></span></i></blockquote>
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In Part V, Chapter 9 of <i>Anna Karenina </i>Anna and Vronsky are living together in an "old neglected palazzo" in Italy. It is morning and they have received a visitor. It is Vronsky's friend, Golenishchev.</div>
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<i>"I've seen it," answered Golenishchev. "Of course, he's not without talent, but it's all in a wrong direction. It's all the Ivanov-Strauss-Renan attitude of Christ and to religious painting."</i><i><br /></i><i></i></blockquote>
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<i>"I can't understand how they can fall into such a gross mistake. Christ always has his definite embodiment in the art of the great masters. And therefore, if they want to depict not God but a revolutionist or a sage, let them take from history a Socrates, a Franklin, a Charlotte Corday, but not Christ. <span style="background-color: #f6b26b;">They take the very figure which cannot be taken for their art . . ."</span></i></blockquote>
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This refers to when Christ stood before Pontius Pilate the Roman Prefect who sentenced Him to execution by crucifixion.<br />
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The story of the crucifixion of Jesus is found in all four Gospels:<br />
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This part of the passage was confusing to me. I did not understand what was behind Golenishchev's argument. Orthodox Christians use icons, so why would one be offended by a realistic painting of Jesus? I tried to search this online from multiple angles. Sometimes, friends, the search engines fail me and there is no book on my shelf to meet the need.<br />
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Last night I thought of my friend Will, who is an Orthodox Christian. He lives several states away. I sent him a private message via Facebook. He replied within minutes. I asked him if he understood what this quote implied. He very kindly took the time to type out the following message from his phone:<br />
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<span class="text Matt-27-2"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;">Icons show the reality of the persons themselves, "circumscribing" and commemorating the incarnation, but, by their "unrealism", they point away from themselves and try to maintain the role given to them by the Church - a language for communicating the Gospel, and not as a "real representation", which might lead the viewer to idolatry. </span></span></blockquote>
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<span class="text Matt-27-2"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;">In this quote [from Anna Karenina], I think you see the strong Eastern dislike for the "Idolization" of Western art, which necessarily leads to a reaction, iconoclasm, which is the realization that the art is not what it represents. </span></span></blockquote>
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<span class="text Matt-27-2"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;">After the representation has been taken to be "the thing in itself", it leads to a hatred of that deceitful "thing". This is the opposite of what icons are supposed to do!</span></span></blockquote>
<span class="text Matt-27-2"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;"><br /></span></span><span class="text Matt-27-2" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 15.454545021057129px;">Will's insight has whetted my appetite to learn more about the difference between these two views. He wrapped up our conversation with this blessing:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">In Part I, Chapter 11 of <i>Anna Karenina</i>, Konstantin Levin and his old friend Stephan Arkadyevich Oblonsky are enjoying a meal together at a restaurant. They are discussing two types of women -- the "pure" and the "fallen".</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><i>'You know, to me all women are divided into two classes,' [said Levin] '. . . at least no . . . truer to say: there are women and there are . . . I've never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I shall never see them, but such creatures as that painted French woman at the counter with the ringlets are vermin to my mind, and all fallen women are the same.</i></span></span></blockquote>
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<i>'But<b> </b>the<b> Magdalen</b>?' </i></blockquote>
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<i>'Ah, drop that! Christ never would have said those words if He had known how they would be abused. Of all the Gospel those are the only ones remembered.'</i></blockquote>
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This is referring to Mary Magdalene. Interesting to note is that nowhere in Scripture is she referred to as a "fallen" woman or prostitute. Tolstoy seems to have held this assumption. I was curious how this misconception began, so I did a little research and discovered this tid-bit from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Magdalene">Wikipedia</a>:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><i>Few characters in the New Testament have been so sorely miscast as Mary Magdalene. From the sixth century until fairly late in the twentieth century, she has been portrayed as a prostitute. No where in the New Testament is she described in any but the most positive terms. Her reputation as a fallen woman originated not in the Bible but in a sixth-century sermon by Pope Gregory the Great.</i></span></blockquote>
Mary Magdalene is a prominent character in the New Testament. In several Christian faith traditions she is considered to be a saint. She is introduced in <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%208&version=KJV">Luke 8:1-2</a>.<br />
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<i><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;">8 </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">And it came to pass afterward, that [Jesus] went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with him,</span></i><span class="text Luke-8-2" id="en-KJV-25248"><i><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">2 </sup>And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils . . .</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Recently I was skimming through the first part of </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Anna Karenina</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> while researching another topic and I came upon a couple of great quotes for this series which I had underlined during my first read. Somehow I forgot to include them in my list of Bible references.</span></div>
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As <i>Anna Karenina</i> opens we find that Stephan Arkadyevich has committed adultery. His wife, Dolly, has just found out about it. As to be expected, Dolly is crushed. The future of Stephan and Dolly's marriage hangs in the balance as Dolly grieves.<br />
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<i>". . . you've not many sins on your conscience." [said Stephan].</i></blockquote>
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<i>"Alas! all the same," said Levin, 'when with loathing I go over my life, I shudder and curse and bitterly complain . . .' Yes."</i> </blockquote>
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<i>"What can one do? The world's made like that," said Stephan Arkadyevich.</i> </blockquote>
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<i>"The one comfort is like that prayer which I have always liked<span style="background-color: white;">: <b>'Forgive me not according to my unworthiness, but according to Thy loving kindness.</b>' </span>That's the only way she can forgive me."</i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="background-color: white;"><b> 'Forgive me not according to my unworthiness, but according to Thy loving kindness.' </b></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is taken from <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm%2051&version=KJV">Psalm 51</a>, which is a penitential psalm.</span><span style="line-height: 19.190340042114258px;"> It is used frequently in various liturgical</span><span style="line-height: 19.190340042114258px;"> traditions. Lady Jane Grey recited it before she was beheaded in 1554 at the Tower of London.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> <i>A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.190340042114258px;">When King David committed adultery with Bathsheba she conceived a child. To cover his tracks, David arranged to have Bathsheba's husband, Uriah, sent to fight on the front lines, where he was soon killed in battle. Later, the prophet Nathan rebuked David for his actions and foretold the consequence of David's sins. David repented and said, "I have sinned against the Lord."</span><br />
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<span class="text Ps-51-1" id="en-KJV-14693" style="background-color: white;"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; font-weight: bold; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;">51 </span>Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.</span></div>
<span class="text Ps-51-2" id="en-KJV-14694" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">2 </sup>Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-51-3" id="en-KJV-14695" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">3 </sup>For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-51-4" id="en-KJV-14696" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">4 </sup>Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-51-5" id="en-KJV-14697" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">5 </sup>Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-51-6" id="en-KJV-14698" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">6 </sup>Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-51-7" id="en-KJV-14699" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">7 </sup>Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-51-8" id="en-KJV-14700" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">8 </sup>Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-51-9" id="en-KJV-14701" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">9 </sup>Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-51-10" id="en-KJV-14702" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">10 </sup>Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-51-11" id="en-KJV-14703" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">11 </sup>Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-51-12" id="en-KJV-14704" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">12 </sup>Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-51-13" id="en-KJV-14705" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">13 </sup>Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-51-14" id="en-KJV-14706" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">14 </sup>Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-51-15" id="en-KJV-14707" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">15 </sup>O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-51-16" id="en-KJV-14708" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">16 </sup>For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-51-17" id="en-KJV-14709" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">17 </sup>The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-51-18" id="en-KJV-14710" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">18 </sup>Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-51-19" id="en-KJV-14711" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">19 </sup>Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The wedding of Kitty and Levin in Part V, Chapters 4, 5, and 6 of Tolstoy's <i>Anna Karenina</i> is a gold mine of Scriptural references. This is the ninth post I've written about it. Today I'm wrapping up the ceremony with the final part of their marriage prayer and blessing. The following quote is from Part V, Chapter 6. Let's take a look at the purple highlighted section.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 16.363636016845703px;" /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">
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<i><span style="background-color: #ea9999;">They alluded to God's creation of a wife from Adam's rib, 'and for this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh</span>,'<span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;"> and that 'this is a great mystery'</span>; they prayed that God would make them fruitful and bless them, like <span style="background-color: #ffe599;">Isaac and Rebecca</span>, <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Joseph</span>, <span style="background-color: #a2c4c9;">Moses and Zipporah</span>, and that<span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"> they might look upon their children's children</span><span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;">.</span> 'It's all beautiful,' thought Kitty, catching her words, 'just as it should be,' and a smile of happiness, unconsciously reflected in everyone who looked at her, beamed on her radiant face.</i></blockquote>
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<strong><span style="color: #b2462d; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+103:17&version=KJV" style="color: #b2462d; text-decoration: initial;">Psalm 103:17</a> </span></strong></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;">But the mercy of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto <b>children's children . . .</b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <strong><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+128:6&version=KJV" style="color: #b2462d; text-decoration: initial;">Psalm 128:6</a></strong></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;">Yea, thou shalt see thy <b><b>children</b>'s</b> <b>children</b>, and peace upon Israel.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;"><br /></span><span style="color: #b2462d; font-family: inherit;"><b><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+17:6&version=NIV" style="color: #b2462d; text-decoration: initial;">Proverbs 17:6</a> </b></span></blockquote>
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<b style="font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;">Children</b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;"><b>’s</b> </span><b style="font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;">children</b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;"> are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;">children</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;">.</span></blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 16.363636016845703px;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">This post wraps up the wedding of Kitty and Levin, but it does not wrap up <i>Anna Karenina! </i>There is much more Biblical goodness to come.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 16.363636016845703px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 16.363636016845703px;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 16.363636016845703px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 16.363636016845703px;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Starting today you will be able to find old "Classics and the Bible Sundays" posts at the <a href="http://classicsandthebible.blogspot.com/" style="color: #45818e; text-decoration: initial;">Classics and the Bible blog</a>! Each new post will debut here at Classical Quest on Sundays as usual, but I will no longer archive them here. I hope the new site will be a helpful resource for both students of the classics and students of the Bible. </span></span><br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.600000381469727px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">
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<b><span style="color: #444444;"><i>This week's passage is found in Part V, Chapter 6 of Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy. I've divided it into three posts. Today I'll cover the portions highlighted in green, and blue. In <a href="http://www.classicalquest.com/2013/01/classics-and-bible-sundays-anna-karenina.html">last Sunday's post</a> I covered the red, orange and yellow sections.</i></span></b><br />
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We are nearing the end of the wedding ceremony of Levin and Kitty. They've plighted their troth to one another, and now it is time for the final prayer.<br />
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<i><span style="background-color: #ea9999;">They alluded to God's creation of a wife from Adam's rib, 'and for this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh</span><span style="background-color: white;">,'</span><span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;"> and that 'this is a great mystery'</span>; they prayed that God would make them fruitful and bless them, lik<span style="background-color: white;">e</span> <span style="background-color: #ffe599;">Isaac and Rebecca</span>, <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Joseph</span>, <span style="background-color: #a2c4c9;">Moses and Zipporah</span>, and that<span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"> they might look upon their children's children</span>. 'It's all beautiful,' thought Kitty, catching her words, 'just as it should be,' and a smile of happiness, unconsciously reflected in everyone who looked at her, beamed on her radiant face.</i></blockquote>
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<i> <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Joseph</span></i><br />
<i><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><br /></span></i><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2037&version=KJV">Genesis 37</a>, <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2040-50&version=KJV">Genesis 40-50</a><br />
This is referring to Joseph from the Old Testament. He was the favored son of Jacob. His older brothers sold him into slavery because they were jealous of him. Later, through a miraculous series of events, he rose to become a powerful ruler in Egypt -- second only to Pharaoh. In one of the Bible's most ironic twists, Joseph's treacherous brothers ended up showing him obeisance. His story is significant to all of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrahamic_religions">Abrahamic religions</a> because it "connects the story of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in Canaan to the subsequent story of the liberation of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt." <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_(son_of_Jacob)">source</a></span><br />
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Moses was born a slave in Egypt yet became a prince when he was adopted by Pharoah's daughter. He met Zipporah, his wife, while hiding out in Midian after he killed an Eygptian (whom Moses witnessed brutally striking a Hebrew). Zipporah was the daughter of Jethro, a Midianite priest.<br />
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The complete story of Moses is found in four books of the Bible: <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%201-%20Deuteronomy%2034&version=KJV">Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy</a>. Moses is accredited with transcribing the first five books which are known as the Pentateuch or the Torah (Hebrew Scripture).<br />
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Next week I'll wrap up this passage with some links to Scripture which refer to the blessing of children.<br />
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<i><span style="background-color: #a2c4c9;"><br /></span></i>Adriana@ClassicalQuesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06718229975590311860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114017400123549331.post-8398267193446350502013-01-20T09:30:00.000-08:002013-01-20T09:30:11.395-08:00Anna Karenina: Part V, Chapter 6<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 5px; position: relative;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I've been writing about the wedding of Kitty and Levin for some time now. The entire ceremony is found in Chapters 4, 5, and 6 in Part V of <i>Anna Karenina</i>, by Leo Tolstoy. This segment of the novel is so richly intertwined with Scripture and presented in such a radiant, reverent manner that it has become a truly delightful meditation for me! I have felt eager to return to it again and again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Today's passage is found in Part V, Chapter 6. When I started "Classics and the Bible Sundays", I promised to keep the posts short. In an effort to stick with that plan, I'll break today's passage into two parts. This week I'll cover the portions highlighted in red, orange, and yellow. Next week I'll cover the green, blue, and purple.</span></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: #ea9999;">They alluded to God's creation of a wife from Adam's rib, 'and for this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh</span>,'<span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;"> and that 'this is a great mystery'</span>; they prayed that God would make them fruitful and bless them, like <span style="background-color: #ffe599;">Isaac and Rebecca</span>,<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Joseph</span>, <span style="background-color: #a2c4c9;">Moses and Zipporah</span>, and that<span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"> they might look upon their children's children</span>. 'It's all beautiful,' thought Kitty, catching her words, 'just as it should be,' and a smile of happiness, unconsciously reflected in everyone who looked at her, beamed on her radiant face.</i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="background-color: #ea9999;">They alluded to God's creation of a wife from Adam's rib, 'and for this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh . . .</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;"> </sup>And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her . . .</i></span></blockquote>
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Starting with this post, my Scripture links will take you to each passage in full context rather that to the individual verses. I highly recommend that you read them! Today's links are especially rich. Explore the story of Creation, the mystery of Christ and His Church, and the touching love story of Isaac and Rebekah.</div>
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Adriana@ClassicalQuesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06718229975590311860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114017400123549331.post-86287272957293358252013-01-20T09:25:00.001-08:002013-01-20T09:25:32.128-08:00Anna Karenina: Part V, Chapter 4<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 5px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td><img alt="The Parasol - Francisco Goya" src="http://uploads1.wikipaintings.org/images/francisco-goya/the-parasol-1777.jpg!Blog.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 0px 0px 0px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 0px 0px 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 0px;" /></td></tr>
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<span style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">We have four connections to Scripture from today's passage.</span><i style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> </i><span style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">I focused on <a href="http://www.classicalquest.com/2012/12/classics-and-bible-sundays-anna-karenina_8.html" style="color: #45818e; text-decoration: initial;">the first two last week</a> and we'll look at the final two in this post. And in case you are wondering if this will wrap up the wedding of Kitty and Levin -- no, it will not!</span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">The following is from Part V, Chapter 4 of </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Anna Karenina,</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> by Leo Tolstoy:</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;" /><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;"><br /></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;" /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;">
<i style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; text-align: justify;">"Thou who didst from the beginning create male and female," the priest read after the exchange of rings, "from Thee woman was given to man to be a helpmeet to him, and for the procreation of children. <span style="background-color: #ffd966;">O Lord, our God, who hast poured down the blessings of Thy Truth according to Thy Holy Covenant upon Thy chosen servants, our fathers, from generation to generation</span>, bless Thy servants Konstantin and Yekatrina and <span style="background-color: #93c47d;">make their throth fast in faith, and union of hearts, and truth, and love . . ."</span></i></blockquote>
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<i style="line-height: 14.393939018249512px;"><span style="background-color: #ffd966;">". . . O Lord, our God, who hast poured down the blessings of Thy Truth according to Thy Holy Covenant upon Thy chosen servants, our fathers, from generation to generation . . ."</span></i></blockquote>
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;" /><sup class="versenum" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: x-small;">Hebrews 9:15</span></sup><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;" /><sup class="versenum" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: xx-small;">English Standard Version*</span></sup></span></sup><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;" /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;">
<i><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Therefore [Christ] is</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><sup class="crossreference" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-ESV-30104A" title="See cross-reference A">A</a>)"></sup></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">the mediator of a <b>new covenant</b>, so that</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><sup class="crossreference" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-ESV-30104B" title="See cross-reference B">B</a>)"></sup></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">those who are called <b>may</b></span><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><sup class="crossreference" style="vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-ESV-30104C" title="See cross-reference C">C</a>)"></sup></span></b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>receive the promised eternal inheritance</b>,</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><sup class="crossreference" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-ESV-30104D" title="See cross-reference D">D</a>)"></sup></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.</span></span></i></blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;">For more about the "Old Covenant" which was referred to previously in the wedding of Kitty and Levin go </span><a href="http://www.classicalquest.com/2012/11/classics-and-bible-sundays-anna-karenina_25.html" style="background-color: white; color: #45818e; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: initial;">H<span style="font-family: inherit;">ERE</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;">. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;" /><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 14.393939018249512px;"><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;"></span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 14.393939018249512px;"><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;" /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;">
<i style="line-height: 14.393939018249512px;">"...make their throth fast in faith, and union of hearts, and truth, and love."</i></blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;">I don't even know where to begin with this one. Shall I just quote the whole Bible? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;">Here's a couple verses drawn out of a hat, so to speak -- I'm sure many of you have a favorite you could add! </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;" /><blockquote style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: #990000;">This is my commandment, That ye <b>love</b> one another, as I have <b>love</b>d you.</span></i></span></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #990000;">Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto <b>unfeigned love</b> of the brethren, see that ye <b>love one another with a pure heart fervently </b>. . .</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: inherit;"><i>That they<b> all may be one</b>; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.</i></span></blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;">I would also like to add the next thing Tolstoy wrote after the blessing (because it's just too good </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;">not</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;"> to share):</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;" /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;">
<i>Levin felt more and more that all his ideas of marriage, all his dreams of how he would arrange his life, were mere childishness, and that it was something he had never understood and now understood less than ever, though it was happening to him. In his breast a tremor rose higher and higher, and tears that would not be checked came into his eyes.</i></blockquote>
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: xx-small;">*All Scripture quotes are from the King James Version unless otherwise stated.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: xx-small;">(Source: <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: initial;">BibleGateway</a>. Image Source: <a href="http://www.wikipaintings.org/" style="color: #88bb21; text-decoration: initial;">WikiPaintings</a>)</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.600000381469727px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"></span><a href="http://www.classicalquest.com/2012/10/what-to-read-before-you-read-classics.html" style="background-color: white; color: #88bb21; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.600000381469727px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px; text-decoration: initial;">Why follow this series?</a><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;" />Adriana@ClassicalQuesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06718229975590311860noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114017400123549331.post-68320864438659489942013-01-20T09:19:00.000-08:002013-01-20T09:19:35.393-08:00Anna Karenina: Part V, Chapter 6<br />
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We have four connections to Scripture from today's passage!<i> </i>I'll focus on two links this week and two next week. And in case you are wondering if this will wrap up the wedding of Kitty and Levin -- no, it will not. The following is from Part V, Chapter 6 of <i>Anna Karenina,</i> by Leo Tolstoy:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i><span style="background-color: #e06666;">"</span><span style="background-color: #e06666;">Thou who didst from the beginning create male and female</span><span style="background-color: #e06666;">,"</span> the priest read after the exchange of rings,<span style="background-color: #f6b26b;"> "from Thee woman was given to man to be a helpmeet to him, and for the procreation of children.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> O Lord, our God, who hast poured down the blessings of Thy Truth according to Thy Holy Covenant upon Thy chosen servants, our fathers, from generation to generation, bless Thy servants Konstantin and Yekatrina and make their throth fast in faith, and union of hearts, and truth, and love . . ."</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span class="text Gen-1-26" id="en-KJV-26"><span style="color: #990000;"><i><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">26 </sup>And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.</i></span></span><span class="text Gen-1-27" id="en-KJV-27"><span style="color: #990000;"><i><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">27 </sup><b>So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.</b></i></span></span><span class="text Gen-1-28" id="en-KJV-28"><span style="color: #990000;"><i><b><sup class="versenum" style="vertical-align: top;">28 </sup>And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth</b>, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.</i></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: #6fa8dc;"><i><span style="background-color: #f6b26b;">". . . from Thee woman was given to man to be a help meet to him, and for the procreation of children.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Part V, Chapter 4 of <i>Anna Karenina</i> is loaded with Biblical references. The scene depicts the wedding ceremony of Kitty and Levin. Originally I wanted to keep all of these passages together in one post, but I kept exceeding the number of labels allowed! In order to label things correctly, I have split this post in two. Everything in bold is Biblical. The passages I will focus on today are highlighted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>When the deacon had finished the liturgical prayer, the priest turned to the bridal pair with a book: "<b>Eternal God, that joinest together in love them that were separate</b>," he read in a gentle, piping voice: "<b>who hath ordained the union of holy wedlock that cannot be set asunder</b>, Thou who didst bless <b>Isaac and Rebecca and their descendants, according to Thy Holy Covenant</b>; bless Thy servants, Konstantin and Yekaterina,<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><b> leading them in the path of all good works</b>.</span><b> <span style="background-color: #6fa8dc;">For gracious and merciful art Thou, our Lord</span>, <span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;">and glory be to Thee, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, now and forever and ever."</span></b></i><span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"> </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>"Amen!" the unseen choir sent floating again through the air.</i> </span></blockquote>
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<i>" 'Joinest together in love them that were separate.' What deep meaning in those words, and how they correspond with what one feels at this moment," thought Levin. "Is she feeling the same as I?"</i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+23:3&version=KJV" style="color: #45818e; text-decoration: initial;"><span style="color: #990000;">Psalm 23:3</span></a></strong><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">the</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">paths</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">of</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">righteousness</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> for his name's sake.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians%202:10&version=KJV" style="color: #45818e; text-decoration: initial;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Ephesians 2:10</b></span></a><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">good</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">works</span><span style="color: #cc0000;">, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. </span></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"For gracious and merciful art Thou, our Lord . . ."</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Psalm 145:8</b></span><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">The LORD is </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">gracious</span><span style="color: #cc0000;">, </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">and</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">full</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">of</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">compassion</span><span style="color: #cc0000;">; slow to anger, </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">and</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">of</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> great mercy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">More like this <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=gracious+and+full+of+compassion&qs_version=KJV" style="color: #45818e; text-decoration: initial;">here</a>.</span></div>
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<b style="background-color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">" . . . glory be to Thee, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, now and forever and ever." </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">Romans 11:36</span></b><br /><b style="color: #cc0000;">For</b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> of him, </span><b style="color: #cc0000;">and</b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> through him, </span><b style="color: #cc0000;">and</b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> to him, are all things: to whom be </span><b style="color: #cc0000;">glory</b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><b style="color: #cc0000;">for</b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><b style="color: #cc0000;"><b>ever</b></b><span style="color: #cc0000;">.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">For the first three verses in this passage, <a href="http://www.classicalquest.com/2012/11/classics-and-bible-sundays-anna-karenina_25.html" style="color: #45818e; text-decoration: initial;">go here</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small; line-height: 11.199999809265137px;">(Source: </span><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/" style="color: #88bb21; font-size: x-small; line-height: 11.199999809265137px; text-decoration: initial;">BibleGateway</a><span style="font-size: xx-small; line-height: 11.199999809265137px;">. Image Source: </span><a href="http://www.wikipaintings.org/" style="color: #88bb21; font-size: x-small; line-height: 11.199999809265137px; text-decoration: initial;">WikiPaintings</a><span style="font-size: xx-small; line-height: 11.199999809265137px;">)</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.classicalquest.com/2012/10/what-to-read-before-you-read-classics.html" style="color: #999999; font-size: 13.600000381469727px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px; text-decoration: initial;">Why follow this series?</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">by Adriana</span><br />Part V, Chapter 4 of <i>Anna Karenina</i> is loaded with Biblical references. This scene depicts the wedding ceremony of Kitty and Levin. Originally, I wanted to keep all of these passages together in one post, but I kept exceeding the number of characters allowed for labels. So In order to label things correctly, I have split this post into two segments. Everything in bold is Biblical. The passages for today are highlighted.</div>
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<i>When the deacon had finished the liturgical prayer, the priest turned to the bridal pair with a book: <span style="background-color: #ea9999;">"<b>Eternal God, that joinest together in love them that were separate</b>,</span>" he read in a gentle, piping voice:<span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;"> "<b>who hath ordained the union of holy wedlock that cannot be set asunder</b></span>, Thou who didst bless <b style="background-color: #ffe599;">Isaac and Rebecca and their descendants, according to Thy Holy Covenant</b>; bless Thy servants, Konstantin and Yekaterina,<b> leading them in the path of all good works</b>.<b> For gracious and merciful art Thou, our Lord, and glory be to Thee, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, now and forever and ever."</b></i> </blockquote>
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<i>"Amen!" the unseen choir sent floating again through the air.</i> </blockquote>
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<i>" 'Joinest together in love them that were separate.' What deep meaning in those words, and how they correspond with what one feels at this moment," thought Levin. "Is she feeling the same as I?"</i></blockquote>
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Adriana@ClassicalQuesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06718229975590311860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114017400123549331.post-58321260844055299942013-01-20T09:07:00.000-08:002013-01-20T09:07:39.295-08:00Anna Karenina: Part V, Chapter 4<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 5px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td><img alt="The Three Candles - Marc Chagall" src="http://uploads5.wikipaintings.org/images/marc-chagall/the-three-candles-1940.jpg!Blog.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 0px 0px 0px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 0px 0px 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 0px;" /></td></tr>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Today we have another passage from the wedding of Kitty and Levin in Part V, Chapter 4 of <i>Anna Karenina</i>:</span></div>
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<i>Vouchsafe to them <b>love made perfect, peace and help, O Lord</b>, we beseech Thee, " the whole church seemed to breathe with the voice of the senior deacon.</i> </blockquote>
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<i>Levin heard the words, and they impressed him. "How did they guess that it is help, just help that one needs?" he thought, recalling all his fears and doubts of late. "What do I know? What can I do in this fearful business," he thought, "without help? Yes, it is help I need now."</i> Part V, Chapter 4</blockquote>
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Adriana@ClassicalQuesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06718229975590311860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114017400123549331.post-65513435252773590242013-01-20T09:03:00.000-08:002013-01-20T09:03:11.365-08:00Anna Karenina: Part V, Chapter 4<br />
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<br />The Wedding of Levin and Kitty is full of references to Scripture. I counted eight within two pages. Keener eyes than mine may be able to point out more. Unfortunately I'm not familiar with the liturgy of the Russian Orthodox Church, so I welcome input from readers who are.</div>
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<i>"<b>Blessed be the name of the Lord</b>," the solemn syllables rang out slowly one after another, setting the air quivering with waves of sound.</i><i><br /></i><i>"<b>Blessed by the name of our God, now and hereafter</b>," the little old priest answered in a submissive, piping voice, still fingering something at the lectern.</i> <i>And the full chorus of the unseen choir rose up, filling the whole church from the windows to the vaulted roof with broad waves of melody. It grew stronger, rested for an instant, and slowly died away."</i> (<span style="text-align: justify;">Part V, Chapter 4) </span></blockquote>
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The line "Blessed be the name of the Lord." occurs multiple times in Scripture. I chose the following passage which I feel is representative of the joyful, hopeful nature of a wedding ceremony:</div>
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<span class="text Ps-113-1" id="en-KJV-15815"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: 0px; font-weight: bold; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;">113 </span>Praise ye the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>. Praise, O ye servants of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, praise the name of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>.</span></span></div>
<span class="text Ps-113-2" id="en-KJV-15816"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">2 </sup>Blessed be the name of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> from this time forth and for evermore.</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-113-3" id="en-KJV-15817"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">3 </sup>From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>'s name is to be praised.</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-113-4" id="en-KJV-15818"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">4 </sup>The <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-113-5" id="en-KJV-15819"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">5 </sup>Who is like unto the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> our God, who dwelleth on high,</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-113-6" id="en-KJV-15820"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">6 </sup>Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-113-7" id="en-KJV-15821"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">7 </sup>He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-113-8" id="en-KJV-15822"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">8 </sup>That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-113-9" id="en-KJV-15823"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">9 </sup>He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>.</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-113-9"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span class="text Ps-113-9">(<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+113&version=KJV" style="color: #45818e; text-decoration: initial;">Bible Gateway</a>)</span></div>
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Adriana@ClassicalQuesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06718229975590311860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114017400123549331.post-57713432103453269582013-01-20T08:11:00.001-08:002013-01-20T08:11:26.124-08:00Anna Karenina: Part IV, Chapter 22<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/paul-gauguin/human-misery-1889" style="color: #45818e; text-decoration: initial;"><i>Human Misery, </i>Paul Gauguin</a></span></div>
<i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 14.363636016845703px;">In Part IV, Chapter 22 of<i> Anna Karenina, </i>we find Aleksey Aleksandrovich Karenin pondering the complications of divorce. After his wife Anna's confession of adultery, he forgave her completely. Now however, she wants to be free -- </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;" /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 14.363636016845703px;"><i>To consent to divorce, to give her her freedom, meant in his thoughts to take from himself the last tie that bound him to life -- the children whom he loved; and to take from her the last prop that supported her on the path of virtue and cast her down to her ruin. If she were divorced, he knew she would join her life to Vronsky's, and their tie would be an illegitimate and criminal one, since a wife, by the interpretation of ecclesiastical law,<b> could not marry while her husband was living</b>.</i></span></blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;">This passage refers to Matthew 5:31-32, which is part of the <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205,%206,%207&version=KJV" style="color: #45818e; text-decoration: initial;">"Sermon on the Mount"</a>.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px;" /><div class="heading passage-class-0" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 10px;">
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<span class="text Matt-5-31" id="en-KJV-23266"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">31 </sup>It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-5-32" id="en-KJV-23267"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">32 </sup>But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-5-32"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/fra-angelico/the-story-of-st-nicholas-giving-dowry-to-three-poor-girls-1448" style="color: #45818e; text-decoration: initial;"><i>The Story of St. Nicholas: Giving Dowry to Three Poor Girls, </i>by Fra Angelico</a></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In Part II, Chapter 34 of <i>Anna Karenina</i>, Prince Aleksandr Shcherbatsky gives his daughter, Kitty, the following advice:</span></div>
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<i><b>. . it's better when one does good in such a manner that no one knows of it.</b></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This comes from Matthew, chapter 6, which is part of the <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205,6,7&version=KJV" style="color: #45818e; text-decoration: initial;">Sermon on the Mount</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px;">Have a peaceful Sunday everyone!</span></div>
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Adriana@ClassicalQuesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06718229975590311860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114017400123549331.post-49355431447451407172013-01-19T10:28:00.001-08:002013-01-20T08:00:18.951-08:00Anna Karenina: Part IV, Chapter 17<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This week our excerpt is from <i>Anna Karenina</i>, by Leo Tolstoy. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Aleksey Aleksandrovich Karenin (Anna's husband) is speaking to Count Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky <span style="line-height: 19.196969985961914px;">(Anna's lover) -- </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>When I got the telegram, I came here with the same feelings; I will say more, I longed for [Anna's] death. But . . ." he paused . . . "But I saw her and forgave her. And the happiness of forgiveness has revealed to me my duty. I forgive completely.<b> I would offer the other cheek, I would give my cloak if my coat be taken</b>. I pray to God only not to take from me the bliss of forgiveness!"</i><i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i>Part IV, Chapter 17</span></blockquote>
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<span class="text Matt-5-40"><br /></span><span class="text Matt-5-40">For deeper insight into the entire novel, read the following:</span><br />
<span class="text Matt-5-40"><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%205,%206,%207&version=KJV" style="color: #45818e; text-decoration: initial;">"The Sermon on the Mount" -- Matthew, Chapters 5, 6, and 7</a>. </span><br />
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