짧은글 긴여운/수상록

침묵

소박한 나그네 2011. 4. 16. 22:03
" Silence is as good as physick in some distempers both of mind and body.

A talkative comforter, is another disease to a sick man;
unseasonable councell is a wound instead of a plaister, and instead of healing, tortures the patient.

It is as high a point of prudence to know when, as to know what to advise a distressed friend."

솔로몬이 이에 대하여 말한다..

"잠잠할 때가 있고 말할 때가 있으며" (전 3:7)

아모스는 지혜자의 침묵에 대해서 이렇게 말한다..

" in that time the prudent shall keep silence, for it is an evill time "

사도 바울은

" wherein men will not endure sound doctrine " (2 Tim 4.3.)

"Then the prudent hold their peace, and none speak but fooles or slatterers, such times make the quickest market for their sophisticated wares, no other will goe off. " (J. Caryl)

지혜자들로 침묵하게 하는 시대는 악한 시대라....





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