Translated Christianities. Mark Z. Christensen
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Название: Translated Christianities

Автор: Mark Z. Christensen

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Историческая литература

Серия: Latin American Originals

isbn: 9780271065526

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СКАЧАТЬ greatly mistreat, who produce for you what you need, whom you greatly mistreat, our lord God does not want it so.”

      And after he (Sebastian) had told them this, they became angry about it; thereupon they (the nobles) said, “What are you saying to us Sebastian? It is bad. When we were baptized, you told us, ‘Because of it God will have mercy on you.’ And after we were baptized, now you tell us, ‘Get rid of your wives; give all your property, all that is in your homes and your houses, to those without houses, all those who are poor.’ After we give it to them, where will we go, for we will no longer have property? In what will we appear as rulers when we have served the poor? And now we do not want this to be done; we had really believed your words, but now we no longer believe; we abandon what you had taught us; we no longer believe and still we will love those you do not yet take to be gods; still before our gods we will kill people; it will again be like it was before you came here.”

      After the wicked had said this to Sebastian, God’s beloved was very sad and wept. He told them, “Listen evildoers! What are you saying? Is it not a sin that you want to break our lord God’s commandments?”

      But the wicked no longer listened at all to him at that point; still he tried to restrain them, but they said, “Although it is sin, did we ask you about it? We really no longer want what you tell us; we no longer want you to live here. Go to your home, to where you came from.”

      After our lord had declared this to him, then... replied... Sebastian told him..., “Thank you, let me try them out again.”

      Then, he goes to try them; when he reached the people he said to them, “Listen you people! You say you really do not love the words, the commandments of our lord God. Today I came at his bidding; maybe I will try you out another time. May you judge it well!”

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       Maya Christian Tales

      All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them.

      —Matthew 13:34

      As seen in the previous chapter, religious texts employed stories, however unorthodox, to convey their messages. The short story is perhaps the most enduring and popular genre of didactic literature throughout time. Aesop, Chaucer, Dickens, Shakespeare, and the Brothers Grimm all understood the value of an engaging tale—whether fictitious or factual—to convey a message or simply to entertain. The efficacy of the short story to educate was not lost on Christianity. СКАЧАТЬ