C. S. Lewis Bible: New Revised Standard Version. Клайв Стейплз Льюис

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Название C. S. Lewis Bible: New Revised Standard Version
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I will put enmity between you and the woman,

      and between your offspring and hers;

      he will strike your head,

      and you will strike his heel.”

      16To the woman he said,

      “I will greatly increase your pangs in childbearing;

      in pain you shall bring forth children,

      yet your desire shall be for your husband,

      and he shall rule over you.”

      “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife,

      THE COST OF FREEDOM

      God has made it a rule for Himself that He won’t alter people’s character by force. He can and will alter them—but only if the people will let Him. In that way He has really and truly limited His power. Sometimes we wonder why He has done so, or even wish that He hadn’t. But apparently He thinks it worth doing. He would rather have a world of free beings, with all its risks, than a world of people who did right like machines because they couldn’t do anything else. The more we succeed in imagining what a world of perfect automatic beings would be like, the more, I think, we shall see His wisdom.

      —from “‘The Trouble with “X,”’” God in the Dock

      For reflection

Genesis 3:1–13

      and have eaten of the tree

      about which I commanded you,

      ‘You shall not eat of it,’

      cursed is the ground because of you;

      in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life;

      18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;

      and you shall eat the plants of the field.

      19 By the sweat of your face

      you shall eat bread

      until you return to the ground,

      for out of it you were taken;

      you are dust,

      and to dust you shall return.”

      22 Then the LORD God said, “See, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— 23therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. 24He drove out the man; and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a sword flaming and turning to guard the way to the tree of life.

      For reflection: Genesis 4:3–16

      All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.

      —from The Problem of Pain

      17 Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch; and he built a city, and named it Enoch after his son Enoch. 18To Enoch was born Irad; and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael the father of Methushael, and Methushael the father of Lamech. 19Lamech took two wives; the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. 20Adah bore Jabal; he was the ancestor of those who live in tents and have livestock. 21His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the ancestor of all those who play the lyre and pipe. 22Zillah bore Tubal-cain, who made all kinds of bronze and iron tools. The sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

      For reflection: Genesis 4:16

      To walk out of His will is to walk into nowhere.

      —from Perelandra

      23 Lamech said to his wives:

      “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice;

      you wives of Lamech, listen to what I say:

      I have killed a man for wounding me,

      a young man for striking me.

      24 If Cain is avenged sevenfold,

      truly Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”