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　On last Thursday of May, I held a study session of the Bible at the monastery under the school. It applies to fathers of a protector and the graduate. Was only father, but, until the year before last, mother to tell to be able to participate only at night appears purely; and now of the only female come. The person before and after ten every time adds the managing to work and participates. I become sometimes afraid that I may lose it in response to explanation from a Catholic priest like me who do not make a specialty of the Bible more and more.

 

  I perform mass from half past 6, but some people participate in mass every morning. I try a commentary of the Gospel towards the participant. It is short omeria of around three minutes, but does not prepare only for this on the day before. I ask a spirit of a dead person for help and eat the thought that sometimes floated so that I am blown by the breath of the spirit of a dead person. A heart is sometimes attracted by the first reading, but comments only on the Gospel rigidly. In that way it is not revealed how many years passes anymore, but come to Hiroshima; think that was doing it for a long time.

 

  In this book "why does the Bible recite a miracle story?" of Father Amamiya, I explain about a story of the Bible as follows. I say, "the Bible is not merely the book which I wrote the event that there was objectively as possible". Then I am writing, "the Bible is a meaning lying hidden behind the event not a history book" whether it is a thing written for what. I say that I might be going to convey the meaning that I understood using a symbol and poeticism.

 

  I point out the expression called "Load of Sabaoth" as one more concrete thing. The person who read this may doubt it if written objectively saying "God of the old promise may be God of the war". However, it becomes the different meaning if I take these words of the Bible as poeticism. "Sabaoth" mean a star to spread through the whole night sky. The star of the night sky was not for the artificial light to disturb the light of the star in the Middle East more than 2,000 years ago, too. The starlit sky spreading out all over the sky overwhelms a person seeing it.

 

  When I performed meditation party personally in ponape island of the Federated States of Micronesia, I have seen the light such as the many jewels which shined from a window at midnight. When I went out and saw it, I was filled up in a really one side star of the sky. I remember that I was overwhelmed for the light of the star where an excellent back feels shivery. I remember a star studded with without a gap from the horizon to the mountain.

 

  I return a story, but "Sabaoth" mean a star opening all over the night sky. The star of the night sky had the power that overwhelmed a person, but strength of the starlit sky was repeated with the image of the armed forces which protected a town and was done with expression to emphasize accuracy of the power of the saving grace.

 

  Even if it made a miraculous story, for example, by Marco six chapters 45 sections - 51 sections, yes gave 5,000 bread, and it was written on the mountain to have gone to pray. Only pupils moved to another place on a ship. When I was stranded in a storm, it is got closer to ferryboat over a lake, and Jesus is that the side of the ship was going to pass. It was necessary to find a meaning for this word to say, it "was going to pass".

 

  Jesus passing by a ship is an action to remain of the question for a reading person. I employed the pupils who were in trouble, and why was the side going to pass? It may not seem to be Jesus. It is a question what kind of meaning you have.

 

  A point of three next Old Testament is shown to Father Amamiya to explain what the meaning was. Exodus 33 chapters 22 sections, dokeisho 34 chapters six sections. And it is description of line king 19 chapters 11 sections. A figure of "passing God" is drawn on these three points.

 

  It was Jesus to have been going to pass by a ship stranded by a storm, but, in fact, it was God that was passed and, in the Gospel, was going to tell the thing which read that God was yes. Though I read it while hearing the Bible many times while actually chasing it with eyes, it is the story that I am made to reflect on when, in fact, nothing might be seen.

 

  I run out to read the Bible only by saying that I only mention the Bible. It may say to say that it is demanded that I open eyes and the ear of the heart and listen. At first it will begin because I keep a figure of yes written in a thing, the Bible to read, and to see in a heart. And I think that I may come to be able to touch the meaning of the event of yes that I did not notice so far through reading a commentary book of the Bible. The new world seems to open out.

 

Principal Michiharu Yamaguchi