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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459726" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Minutes of a day's work on the Bible</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Around 1608; a pleasant day in Cambridge; <br>eight men sit round a table. Originally there were nine: <br>Dr Lively who presided at their speedy start <br>is now departed their distinguished company; <br>gave his lively life to this great enterprise, some say. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Among them still, the greatest of divines and <br>Hebrew scholars of their day. <br>This, the seventh version of the Bible <br>through its history; ‘seven times purified’ <br>as the Bible says itself, <br>through Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, <br>and English versions over centuries… </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Since 1604, they’ve worked upon their <br>allotted section of the Bible; one sixth; <br>now they’re on the 'Canticles'; today <br>it’s Psalm 46: God is our hope and strength, <br>a very present help in trouble… </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They have arrived now at the final verses: <br>God has stilled the warring armies <br>of the outer world; and now to still the inner world… </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Lette goe; and knowe thatte I am Godde’.. <br>that, the learned Hebrew scholars say, <br>is how it actually translates… </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Bee stille and knowe..’ they find in earlier translation; <br>which command should they pass down <br>to centuries to come? Which sound tells the soul <br>the most, of its true nature? Or which sound will aid the soul <br>the quickest to return to its true self? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The scholars and divines, (all 54 of them in sum) <br>work at phenomenal, at godly, speed; <br>this is the great work of their lives; <br>‘Let go’; ‘Be still’ – which has more <br>the ring of soul’s eternity? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">All have done their homework; rolled the words <br>around their tongue, their mind; heard them <br>uttered from the pulpit of their inner house of God; <br>a brief discussion; summary arms then raised in silent vote; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">one command, they have agreed, <br>is for our present help in trouble, for <br>the moment now; the other is for ever; <br>the soul’s instruction from its peaceful self; <br>as God speaks to the angels, who <br>speak to the hearts of men: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the room falls silent; while <br>the secretary scratches in the wet black ink: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Be still and know that I Am God’</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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Dr Lively who presided at their speedy start 
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