3Januaryянваря · 3-е января
«Пища моя в том, чтобы творить волю пославшего меня и совершить дело его», сказал Христос. У каждого из нас это дело его. Мы не можем знать, в чем состоит всё то дело, которое бог делает через нас, но не можем не знать, в чем должно состоять наше участие в нем.
“My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work,” said Christ. Each of us has this work of his. We cannot know what the whole of the work is that God does through us, but we cannot help knowing what our part in it must be.
Translation note. John 4:34; the KJV has “My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.”
1. Не всякий, говорящий мне: господи! господи! — войдет в царство небесное, но исполняющий волю отца моего небесного.
1. Not everyone who says to me: Lord! Lord! — will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my heavenly Father.
From Matthew · close to the original .
The Russian Bible (Synodal translation)Не всякий, говорящий Мне: «Господи! Господи!», войдет в Царство Небесное, но исполняющий волю Отца Моего Небесного.
Source text: ru.wikisource.orgIn English · King James Version, 1611Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Matthew, 7:21.
The Synodal text word for word. Only the printing differs: the divine names in lower case (as throughout the Jubilee text), and the cry «господи! господи!» without quotation marks, closed by a dash.
2. Если нет сил гореть и разливать свет, то хоть не засти его.
2. If you lack the strength to burn and shed light, then at least do not block it.
3. Тот, кто знает правила здравого разума, ниже того, кто их любит. Тот, кто их любит, ниже того, кто их исполняет.
3. He who knows the rules of sound reason is lower than he who loves them. He who loves them is lower than he who carries them out.
From Analects · shortened by Tolstoy .
What Tolstoy read · G. Pauthier's French18. Le Philosophe dit: Celui qui connaît les principes de la droite raison n'égale pas celui qui les aime; celui qui les aime n'égale pas celui qui en fait ses délices et les pratique.
Source text: gutenberg.orgIn English · James Legge, 1861The Master said, 'They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.'
Source text: gutenberg.orgTolstoy’s own version · «Мысли мудрых людей на каждый день»Тот, кто знает правила здравого разума, ниже того, кто их любит. Тот, кто их любит, ниже того, кто их исполняет.
«Les Livres Sacrés de L’Orient». Traduit ou revus et corrigés par G. Pauthier.
Source text: tolstoy.ruDetails
The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Analects (Lunyu), VI.18 (Legge VI.xviii; Pauthier VI.18).
Translated from Pauthier: 'les principes de la droite raison' becomes 'the rules of sound reason' (the Chinese has only 'it'), and Pauthier's third term, 'celui qui en fait ses délices et les pratique', keeps only 'practises'. The Chinese third term is delight (樂), which Pauthier expanded and Tolstoy then dropped, so the climax moves from delighting in the truth to doing it. The Circle repeats the 1903 wording, where Tolstoy signed it 'Chinese wisdom (Lun Yu)'.
4. Главный вопрос жизни нашей только в том, то ли мы делаем в этот короткий, данный нам срок жизни, чего хочет от нас тот, кто послал нас в жизнь.
То ли мы делаем?
4. The chief question of our life lies only in this: whether, in this short span of life given us, we are doing what the one who sent us into life wants of us.
Is that what we are doing?
5. Мне тяжело, я прошу бога помочь мне. Да ведь мое дело служить богу, а не ему служить мне. Стоит вспомнить это, и тяжесть облегчится.
5. I am weighed down; I ask God to help me. But after all, it is my business to serve God, not his to serve me. I need only remember this, and the weight will lighten.
Translation note. The Jubilee text breaks the italics at the commas and at the first period; the English sets the entry as one.
6. Нет пропасти между землей и небом, и было бы кощунством думать, что та обитель, которую бог нам дал, должна вечно находиться во власти зла, своекорыстия и угнетения. Земля не место искупления, а наше жилище, в котором мы должны трудиться для достижения правды и справедливости, стремление к которым таится в душе каждого человека.
6. There is no abyss between earth and heaven, and it would be blasphemy to think that the abode God has given us must forever remain in the power of evil, self-seeking, and oppression. The earth is not a place of expiation, but our home, in which we must labor to attain truth and justice, the striving for which lies hidden in the soul of every man.
From Doveri dell'uomo · close to the original .
Original · ItalianNon v’è opposizione fra terra e cielo; ed è bestemmia il supporre che l’opera di Dio, la casa ch’Egli ci ha dato, possa, senza peccato, sprezzarsi, abbandonarsi ai Poteri, quali essi siano, alle influenze del Male, dell’Egoismo e della Tirannide.
La Terra non è soggiorno d’espiazione; è soggiorno di lavoro a pro dell’ideale, del Vero e del Giusto che ciascun di noi ha in germe nell’anima; …
Source text: it.wikisource.orgIn English · Emilie Ashurst Venturi, 1862There is no antagonism between Earth and Heaven, and it is blasphemous to imagine that God's work, the Home he has given us, may be by us despised, and abandoned to the influence of Evil, Egotism, or Tyranny, without sin.
The Earth is no sojourn of Expiation. It is the home wherein we are to strive towards the realisation of that ideal of the True and Just, of which each man has in his own soul the germ.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Doveri dell'uomo (The Duties of Man), chapter VII, «Doveri verso se stessi», Chapter VII (Doveri dell'uomo, London 1860); Venturi's English, chapter VII, 'Duties towards Yourselves', p. 124.
Two consecutive sentences, close in sense. Mazzini's 'no opposition between earth and heaven' becomes 'no abyss'; 'it is blasphemy to suppose that God's home may without sin be despised and abandoned to the Powers, to Evil, Egotism, and Tyranny' becomes 'blasphemy to think that the dwelling God gave us must for ever remain in the power of evil, self-interest, and oppression'. «Наше жилище, в котором мы должны трудиться» follows Venturi's 'the home wherein we are to strive' more than the Italian «soggiorno di lavoro», so the Russian (through Nikiforov's 1905 «Избранные мысли», not found online) was probably made from the English, as with the December Mazzini entries.
7. Предназначенный нам труд мы должны выполнять честно и безукоризненно, всё равно, надеемся ли мы со временем стать ангелами, или верим в то, что когда-то были слизняками.
7. The work appointed for us we must do honestly and faultlessly, whether we hope in time to become angels or believe that we were once slugs.
From Fors Clavigera, Letter LXXVI 'Our Battle is Immortal' · close to the original .
John Ruskin’s own words… that human work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now Men ; — whether we ever expect to be angels, or ever were slugs, being practically no matter.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Fors Clavigera, Letter LXXVI 'Our Battle is Immortal' (Venice, Sunday 4 March 1877); vol. IV of the George Allen edition, 1906, Letter LXXVI, early in the letter, where Ruskin tells how in 1858 he 'discovered a fallacy which had underlain all my art teaching'.
Close. Ruskin's 'human work' becomes 'the work appointed to us'; 'honourably and thoroughly' becomes 'honestly and faultlessly'; the reason Ruskin gives ('because we are now Men') is left out, and 'being practically no matter' becomes 'it is all the same whether'. Ruskin's words are printed here without the omitted clause. Probably through Nikiforov's Russian selection, vol. III (Posrednik, 1904), which the Jubilee list of sources names.
Вообрази себе, что цель жизни — твое счастие, — и жизнь жестокая бессмыслица. Признай то, что говорит тебе и мудрость людская, и твой разум, и твое сердце: что жизнь есть служение тому, кто послал тебя в мир, и жизнь становится постоянной радостью.
Imagine that the aim of life is your happiness — and life is a cruel absurdity. Acknowledge what human wisdom and your reason and your heart tell you: that life is service to the one who sent you into the world, and life becomes a constant joy.
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