we are only creatures: our role must always be that of patient to agent, female to male, mirror to light, echo to voice

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Today's Reading

If the world exists /not chiefly that we may love God but that God may love us, yet that very fact, on a deeper level, is so for our sakes.

If [He who in Himself can lack nothing] chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

Before and behind all the relations of God to man, as we now learn them from Christianity,

yawns the abyss of a Divine act of pure giving—the election of man, from nonentity, to be the beloved of God,

and therefore (in some sense) the needed and desired of God,

who but for that act needs and desires nothing,

since He eternally has, and is, all goodness.

* 도치문 yawns the abyss of~ =  [the abyss of~] yawns. 동사는 한단어, 주어는 너무 긴 때문에 동사실족 방지상 도치

* abyss; a deep or seemingly bottomless chasm. 심연

* man from nonentity, man to be the beloved of God

* nonenity; 1. a person or thing with no special or interesting qualities; an unimportant person or thing. 2. nonexistence.

And that act is for our sakes.

It is good for us to know love; and best for us to know the love of the best object, God.

But to know it as a love 관계절 which 절로 설명되는 진짜 사랑으로써 사랑을 알기는

//in which we were primarily the wooers and God the wooed, 그 사랑안에서 우린 감격하는자고 하나님은 감격하게 하시는분

in which we sought and He was found,  그 사랑안에서 우린 찾고 그분은 발견되고

in which His conformity to our needs, not ours to His, came first, 그 사랑안에서 우리가 아니고 그분이 우리의 필요에 부응하는데

would be to know it in a form /false to the very nature of things. 부적합한한 형태에서의 사랑을 알기일 수 있다

it = love

즉 우리가 하는 사랑은 진짜아닌 false 가짜인데도 이런 사랑을 통해서 진짜 사랑 - 하나님의 사랑을 깨달을 수 있다

For we are only creatures: our role must always be that of patient to agent, female to male, mirror to light, echo to voice.

Our highest activity must be response, not initiative.

To experience the love of God in a true, and not an illusory form, is therefore to experience it /as our surrender to His demand,

our conformity to His desire: to experience it in the opposite way is, as it were, a solecism against the grammar of being.

* 골자구조; 부정사구 + be 동사 + 부정사구

But to know it as a love would be to know it in a form /false to the very nature of things.

        주어               동사   보어

위 문장의 love 를 수식하는 형절이 3개 쓰임

* solecism; a grammatical mistake in speech or writing.
a solecism is defined as an offense against the rules of grammar by the use of words in a wrong construction; false syntax.

* as it were; in a way; You say as it were in order to make what you are saying sound less definite .

From The Problem of Pain
Compiled in A Year with C.S. Lewis

The Problem of Pain. Copyright © 1940, C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Copyright restored © 1996 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. A Year With C.S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works. Copyright © 2003 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.