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1. Our Holy Scripture has not yet been touched (not interpreted)
Work hard: the Holy Scriptures have not been touched at all. Foreign interpreters, as they are, are worthless. We need to think about it and redo it ourselves. I would like to study this subject and I am... But, alas! how hard it is... One thing is wrong, another is not that way, and you’ll quit. You'll pick it up again and drop it again. And it’s bad... But (1, p. 129).
2. About the translation of the Bible from Hebrew
They are telling you misunderstandings about the Hebrew text. It’s another thing for a scholar or translator to handle it, and another thing to publish the entire text from Hebrew.
It should not be created for the sake of several texts. The real translation has not yet been published - but the fake one is already being printed... What is printed is read, what is read is assimilated... The Synod then publishes its own... It is impossible to publish it from the Hebrew - and there will be a difference... In books the difference is nothing, but in the minds the difference is a great thing. After all, there will be an even greater split... Where are they looking there (7, p. 20)?
3. Likening the Word of God to a mirror
The Word of God is like a mirror. Just as, looking in the mirror, everyone sees where there is a spot or a speck of powder on the face or on the dress, so the soul, reading the Word of God and looking at the numbered commandments there, cannot help but see whether it is correct in those commandments or not correct; conscience, having been enlightened by this word of the living God, will immediately tell it this without hypocrisy (9, pp. 127–128).
4. Advice on teaching the Law of God
The Old Testament must be transmitted first, and then the New. The Old is preparation for the New. It's not bad that you don't force me to memorize it. Let him tell it, but you need to force him to repeat the story more often so that it becomes firmly established in his memory.
We also need to exercise our memory. Let him memorize some sayings of Scripture. It's better here from the New Testament. The simpler psalms can be taught. Let him learn morning and bedtime prayers. Tell how God is visible in nature (8, pp. 26–27).
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