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BBC picked up the King James' Version of the Bible.
17 January 2011 Last updated at 12:16 GMT
King James Bible: How it changed the way we speak
...Another reason was that the time was ripe. "English was in a particularly fluid state. Both the works of Shakespeare and the King James Bible appeared around this formative time and stamped their imprint on the newer forms of the language."
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"This reflects their different jobs," says Crystal. "The whole point of being a dramatist is to be original in your language. The Bible translators, in contrast, were under strict instructions not to be innovative but to look backwards to what earlier translators had done." Earlier translators whose only concern was to translate the Bible literally.
So paradoxically it seems that the profound influence of the King James Bible in changing and shaping our language came through the desire to be as linguistically conservative as possible.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12205084
I don't know if any BBC reporters have ever accessed this blog.
But, EEE-Reporter must be contributing to this humble boom of the King James Version.
CHAPTER I: Senkaku Old Maps
The following old map the Ming Dynasty prepared in 1560's took some attentions from viewers since I included it in my "Historical Analysis of the Senkaku Islands" (http://eereporter.blogspot.com/2010/10/yesterday-two-miracles-however-you.html)
1562: Admiral Hu Zongxian or Ko-Sou-Ken (in Japanese, [胡宗憲]) of Ming issues a now-famous map called Cyu-Kai-Zu (in Japanese, [籌海図編]) prepared by scholar Tei-Jyaku-So (in Japanese, [鄭若曽]) where a sea area including the Senkaku Islands is specified as a kind of national defence line for Ming.
In the above map, the Senkaku Islands are depicted with other islands close to the Chinese Continent but also with Taiwan which was not included in the Ming territory at the time.
The fact that the Senkaku Islands are depicted in this old map does not mean that the Ming Dynasty established its territorial jurisdiction over the Islands.
The full view of this map is as follows.
(Click to enlarge.)The source of this map is: http://www.geocities.jp/tanaka_kunitaka/senkaku/chokaizuhen-1562/
But, this map is just part of an atlas the Ming Dynasty prepared for its need to protect its people and territory from Japanese pirates and Chinese pirates tied up with Japanese. Its aim was not to proclaim territorial sovereignty but to point to the sea area where the pirates were active.
For example, in another map of the atlas, the whole Fujian coast lines are depicted but it does not include the Senkaku Islands. If the Islands had belonged to the Ming Dynasty, they must have been part of the Fujian Province. But, the Senkaku Islands were not depicted as part of the Province. If this map had been drawn for the purpose of declaring Ming's territorial scope, it should not have been allowed to omit the Senkaku Islands from this Fujian Province's sea map.
The whole Fujian coast line map included in the atlas "Cyu-Kai-Zu" (in Japanese, [籌海図編]) is as follows:
(Click to enlarge.)So, it is true that some Ming officials acknowledged existence of the Senkaku Islands as they put them in a kind of official book. But, for 1000 years before their acknowledgment, Okinawa/Ryukyu fishermen and sailors had bee familiar with, and active around, the Senkaku Islands. It was after the Kingdom of Ryukyu/Okinawa became a partial tributary to the Ming Dynasty that Ming officials came to write some about the Islands, since they had to travel to Okinawa Island for diplomatic purpose.
And, from the beginning, the Ming Dynasty had no reason to declare its territorial occupancy of the Senkaku Islands to anybody, since the only close nation, the Kingdom of Okinawa/Ryukyu, became a tributary to Ming. Any territorial claim based on arrogance of past Chinese empires cannot be accepted in this modern era since the late 19th century.
This is the spirit to review over the Chinese irrational claim of its dominum over Okinawa's and Japan's Senkaku Islands.
CHAPTER II: The Concern of Rome around A.D. 35
Holy Christ Jesus is believed to have left this world some time between AD 29 and AD 36.
However the most serious concern of the Roman Empire to the East, militarily monitored and controlled by its legion stationed in Syria, was different from the fate of the Son of God.
It is due to ambitions of Artabanus II of Parthia who ruled the Parthian Empire from about AD 10 to 38.
Tiberius' nephew and heir Germanicus, whom he sent to the East, concluded a treaty with Artabanus, in which he was recognized as king and friend of the Romans. Armenia was given in AD 18 to Zeno, the son of the king of Pontus.
Artabanus, like all Parthian princes, was much troubled by the opposition of the grandees. He is said to have been very cruel in consequence of his education among the Dahan barbarians. To strengthen his power he killed all the Arsacid princes whom he could reach. Rebellions of the subject nations may have occurred also. We learn that he intervened in the Greek city Seleucia on the Tigris in favour of the oligarchs, and that two Jewish brigands, Anilai and Asinai, maintained themselves for years in Neerda in the swamps of Babylonia, and were acknowledged as dynasts by Artabanus.
In 35, he tried anew to conquer Armenia, and to establish his son Arsaces as king there. A war with Rome seemed inevitable. But that party among the Parthian magnates which was hostile to Artabanus applied to Tiberius for a king of the race of Phraates. Tiberius sent Phraates's grandson, Tiridates III, and ordered Lucius Vitellius (the father of the emperor Vitellius) to restore the Roman authority in the East. By very dexterous military and diplomatic operations Vitellius succeeded completely. Artabanus was deserted by his followers and fled to the East. Tiridates, who was proclaimed king, could no longer maintain himself, because he appeared to be a vassal of the Romans; Artabanus returned from Hyrcania with a strong army of Scythian (Dahan) auxiliaries, and was again acknowledged by the Parthians. Tiridates left Seleucia and fled to Syria. But Artabanus was not strong enough for a war with Rome; he therefore concluded a treaty with Vitellius in 37, in which he gave up all further pretensions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artabanus_II_of_Parthia
So, when Holy Christ Jesus and His followers were suffering the testing time, Roman Emperor Tiberius focused on Armenia, Parthia, and Syria all north and east of Jerusalem.
Accordingly, Pontius Pilate, the fifth Prefect of the Roman province of Judaea from AD 26–36, must have been fully ready to respond to any possible executive order to him from Syria or Rome. Pilate must have tried to keep Palestine or Judaea as calm as possible, since a big turmoil of any kind would have harmed the political and military operation the Roman Emperor himself was engaged in.
There is even a possibility that Artabanus II of Parthia sent a spy or an agent provocateur to cause some social unrest around Jerusalem, so that Roman legion stationed in Syria would have been needed to suppress insurgents and restore order in Palestine. It would have restricted military maneuverability of Romans against Parthia.
In this scenario, Very Holy Christ Jesus might have bee suspected to be an agent sent by Artabanus II. Or even Judas Iscariot might have been such an agent.
From a military and political point of view, if Israelites had tied with Parthia at the time and rose against the Roman rule, it could have led to a larger scale of war for the Roman Empire.
Conversely, Truly Very Holy Christ Jesus could be regarded to have contributed to stability of Palestine in the very complicated situation around A.D. 35.
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Mencius said:
"There are three cases where a master serves a king.
First, when a king comes in his best manners to invite the master to his court, promising that whatever the master recommends shall be performed, the master shall go and serve the king.
In this case, the mater shall leave the court if any of his recommendations is not accepted.
Second, if not promising that whatever the master recommends shall be performed, when a king comes in his best manners to invite the master to his court, the master shall go and serve the king.
In this case, the mater shall leave the court if the king come to fail in observing his best manners.
Third and last, when a master is starving to be finally unable to go out of the gate of his house and a king informed of the plight of the master comes to help the master, thinking that it is a big shame to have a great man starve to death in his country, though he cannot perform the sacred way he teaches due to his selfishness, the master may accept the help from the king.
In this case, the master shall receive aid and support from a king in an amount only enough to escape death from starvation.
Ancient masters all lived in this way."
Mar 1:17 And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.
Mar 1:18 And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.