02-02-2010, 07:59 PM
Dear Akhan Shamasha Paul Younan
I would just like to ask your assistance in helping me understand what I have read today, and anyone who can answer
In the book, The Church of the T'ang Dynasty by John Foster It has an appendix wherein he gives his translation of what I assume is the famous (at least famous amongst us) Nestorian Monument in China, I will quote and omit some parts just so you get the sense of the writing:
"Whereupon (one person of) our Trinity became incarnate:
The Illustrious Honoured-One, Messiah,
hid away His true majesty,
and came into the word as a man (or among men).
...His mighty task once done, at noonday He ascended to heaven.
The scriptures left in twenty seven books,
take up the work of creation and open the spiritual realm...
Those words in brackets are John fosters.
So the context is talking of Messiah, and they said the scriptures are 27 books. I had read that the Roman Catholics wrote over the monument in Chinese. What do you say about this?
Thank you for your good help
Sami
I would just like to ask your assistance in helping me understand what I have read today, and anyone who can answer
In the book, The Church of the T'ang Dynasty by John Foster It has an appendix wherein he gives his translation of what I assume is the famous (at least famous amongst us) Nestorian Monument in China, I will quote and omit some parts just so you get the sense of the writing:
"Whereupon (one person of) our Trinity became incarnate:
The Illustrious Honoured-One, Messiah,
hid away His true majesty,
and came into the word as a man (or among men).
...His mighty task once done, at noonday He ascended to heaven.
The scriptures left in twenty seven books,
take up the work of creation and open the spiritual realm...
Those words in brackets are John fosters.
So the context is talking of Messiah, and they said the scriptures are 27 books. I had read that the Roman Catholics wrote over the monument in Chinese. What do you say about this?
Thank you for your good help
Sami