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1) The document provides background information on the Greek tragedy Oedipus the King by Sophocles, including that it was originally published in 1912 and concerns the story of Oedipus.
2) It includes an argument that summarizes the plot - that the oracle foretold that King Laius' son would kill his father and marry his mother, so the infant Oedipus was left to die but survived and unknowingly fulfilled the prophecy.
3) It lists the dramatis personae of the play and provides the opening scene, where Oedipus addresses the people of Thebes who are suffering from a plague and sends Creon
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Each Sunday a lesson is given from some of that week's reading. This lesson covers May 25-31.
BEING Denied CITIZENSHIP of HIS KINGDOM
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WHEN THE DARK GLASS CLEARS MOMENTARILY
INTRO: 1COR 13:12
TEXT: ISA 6
I. SOMETHING TO SEE.
A. THE CONQUEROR V1
Isa 6:1; Isa 6:3; Isa 1:24; Isa 3:1; Isa 10:16
Isa 10:33; Isa 19:4; Exod 23:17; Exod 34:23
B. THE COURT V2
II. SOMETHING TO HEAR.
A. THE CHORUS V3
Isa 6:3; Num 14:20-21; Hab 2:14
B. THE CALL V8
III. SOMETHING TO SAY.
A. COMMITMENT V8
Isa 6:8; 1Sam 3:9-10; Matt 4:20
Acts 20:24
B. CONDEMNATION V9-12
Isa 6:9-12; Isa 65:1-7; Jer 20:8-9
IV. SOMETHING REMAINS V13.
Isa 6:13; Isa 37:31; John 15:1-3
the most vast work transmitted to humanity through Jakob Lorber; it presents a history narrated by Jesus Christ Himself, describing Lord’s and His closed ones’ lives in the last three years of His life on earth, containing a great number of wonders, dialogues and teachings that greatly develop and enrich the records from the Gospels of Matthew and John; it also contains detailed revelations explaining essential passages from the Old and the New Testament and predictions concerning events occurring during the last 2000 years, culminating with facts that characterize the technological civilization of the XX-th Century and disclosures of a scientific nature which were validated long time after Jakob Lorber wrote about them. In the Great Gospel of John, one can practically find the essential answers to all the fundamental questions of life – these are to be found in the clear, but also extraordinary deep descriptions of the divine and human nature, of the creation and the material and spiritual evolution.
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A verse by verse commentary on Hosea 14 dealing with God's plea for Israel to return to Him and forsake all idols. He will bless them and forgive their sins and they will blossom and flourish again.
Our little Church is using a Chronological Bible Reading Schedule by Skip Andrews. It can be found here: http://www.churchofchristduluthga.org/
Each Sunday a lesson is given from some of that week's reading. This lesson covers May 25-31.
BEING Denied CITIZENSHIP of HIS KINGDOM
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WHEN THE DARK GLASS CLEARS MOMENTARILY
INTRO: 1COR 13:12
TEXT: ISA 6
I. SOMETHING TO SEE.
A. THE CONQUEROR V1
Isa 6:1; Isa 6:3; Isa 1:24; Isa 3:1; Isa 10:16
Isa 10:33; Isa 19:4; Exod 23:17; Exod 34:23
B. THE COURT V2
II. SOMETHING TO HEAR.
A. THE CHORUS V3
Isa 6:3; Num 14:20-21; Hab 2:14
B. THE CALL V8
III. SOMETHING TO SAY.
A. COMMITMENT V8
Isa 6:8; 1Sam 3:9-10; Matt 4:20
Acts 20:24
B. CONDEMNATION V9-12
Isa 6:9-12; Isa 65:1-7; Jer 20:8-9
IV. SOMETHING REMAINS V13.
Isa 6:13; Isa 37:31; John 15:1-3
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A verse by verse commentary on Micah 5 dealing with a promised ruler from Bethlehem, and then deliverance and destruction as God takes vengeance on the nations who do not obey Him.
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Oedipus the King Sophocles Translated by David Grene .docxcherishwinsland
Oedipus the King
Sophocles
Translated by David Grene
CHARACTERS
OEDIPUS, King of Thebes FIRST MESSENGER
JOCASTA, His Wife SECOND MESSENGER
CREON, His Brother-in-Law A HERDSMAN
TEIRESIAS, an Old Blind Prophet A CHORUS OF OLD MEN OF
THEBES
PRIEST
PART I:
Scene: In front of the palace of Oedipus at Thebes. To the
Right of the stage near the altar stands the PRIEST with a
crowd of children.
OEDIPUS emerges from the central door.
OEDIPUS: Children, young sons and daughters of old
Cadmus,
1
why do you sit here with your suppliant crowns?
2
the town is heavy with a mingled burden
of sounds and smells, of groans and hymns and
incense;
5 I did not think it fit that I should hear
of this from messengers but came myself,--
I Oedipus whom all men call the Great.
[He returns to the PRIEST.]
You’re old and they are young; come, speak for them.
What do you fear or want, that you sit here
10 suppliant? Indeed I’m willing to give all
that you may need; I would be very hard
should I not pity suppliants like these.
PRIEST: O ruler of my country, Oedipus,
You see our company around the altar;
15 you see our ages; some of us, like these,
who cannot yet fly far, and some of us
heavy with age; these children are the chosen
among the young, and I the priest of Zeus.
Within the market place sit others crowned
20 with suppliant garlands
3
, at the double shrine
of Pallas
4
and the temple where Ismenus
gives oracles by fire
5
. King, you yourself
have seen our city reeling like a wreck
1
Cadmus n. mythical founder and first king of Thebes, a city in
central Greece where the play takes place
2
suppliant crowns wreaths worn by people who ask favors of
the gods.
3
suppliant garlands branches wound in wool, which were
placed on the altar and left there until the suppliant’s request
was granted.
4
double shrine of Pallas the two temples of Athena.
5
temple where Isemenus gives oracles by fire Temple of
Apollo, located by Ismenus, the Theban river, where the priests
studied patterns in the ashes of sacrificial victims to foretell the
future.
already; it can scarcely lift its prow
25 out of the depths, out of the bloody surf.
A blight is on the fruitful plants of the earth.
A blight is on the cattle in the fields,
a blight is on our women that no children
are born to them; a God that carries fire,
30 a deadly pestilence, is on our town,
strikes us and spears us not, and the house of Cadmus
is emptied of its people while black Death
grows rich in groaning and in lamentation.
6
We have not come as suppliants to this altar
35 because we thought of you as a God,
but rather judging you the first of men
in all the chances of this life and when
we mortals have to do with more that man.
You came and by your coming saved our city,
40 freed us from the tribute which we pa.
2 FATE / Page 2.3 Oedipus Tyrannus
Oedipus Tyrannus
By Sophocles
Translated by Peter Meineck & Paul Woodruff
SCENE: Before the royal house of Thebes. The great doors of
the house stand upstage center. There are two wing
entrances, one onstage left and one onstage right.
There is a holy altar center stage. A throng of citizens
have gathered there as suppliants.
(Enter Oedipus through the great doors.)
OEDIPUS:
My children, new nurtured by old Thebes,
Why have you come here pleading,
Wearing wreaths and clutching boughs?
The city burns with pungent spice.
Healing hymns echo the sounds of suffering.
To have heard such news from others
Would not have been right.
My children, I am here, famous Oedipus.
(Oedipus addresses an elderly priest.)
Old man, it is your duty to speak for all.
Why are you kneeling in supplication—
What do you fear, what do you want?
I will help. Only a heartless man could bear
To see such sorrow and not feel pity.
ELDER:
Oedipus, master of my country, look.
Every age gathers at your altar: fledglings
Not yet fit to fly, elders bending beneath time,
Ministers of Zeus, as I, and the flower of our youth.
Your people cram the city’s squares
Crowding Athena’s two temples,
The river god’s sacred shrine
And the blood-charred altar of the prophet.
Look, see for yourself: the city is plunged
Headlong into the depths of disaster,
Engulfed by a murderous seething tide.
Desolation wastes away the harvest,
Destroys our herds grazing in the fields,
Blights the women and makes them barren.
Some furious god hurls pestilence and plague,
Draining the house of Cadmus,
As Hades bloats on dirges of death.
We know that you are not a god;
These children came to your hearth to plead
To the man who knows best the trials of life,
For you understand divine power.
You came to Thebes, saved us from the Sphinx,
And without any help, delivered us from despair.
We could do nothing; we knew nothing.
It is said that once you were helped by a god;
We believed it, and you saved all our lives.
Now, Oedipus, our master and greatest power,
We are all in your care, and we beg of you:
Come to our aid.
Have you heard from a god, a man,
Is there something that you know?
You understand what to do at such times,
That is clear; all of us trust your judgment.
Come, noblest of men, save the city.
Come, be true to your fame.
Our country calls you its savior;
You earned the title. Let it never be remembered
That you once raised us up, only to let us fall.
You brought us lucky signs and good days;
Now you need do the same for us again.
If you want to rule as master of this land,
You need men to master, not walls and ships.
A nation of no-one can only be nothing.
OEDIPUS:
My poor children, I understand the hope
That brings you here—how could I not?
I know you are all in pain; ever ...
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1. Oedipus the King
by
Sophocles
Translation by F. Storr, BA
Formerly Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge
From the Loeb Library Edition
Originally published by
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
and
William Heinemann Ltd, London
First published in 1912
Web-Books.Com
2. OEDIPUS THE KING
ARGUMENT
To Laius, King of Thebes, an oracle foretold that the child born to him by his queen
Jocasta would slay his father and wed his mother. So when in time a son was born the
infant's feet were riveted together and he was left to die on Mount Cithaeron. But a
shepherd found the babe and tended him, and delivered him to another shepherd who
took him to his master, the King or Corinth. Polybus being childless adopted the
boy, who grew up believing that he was indeed the King's son. Afterwards doubting his
parentage he inquired of the Delphic god and heard himself the weird declared before to
Laius. Wherefore he fled from what he deemed his father's house and in his flight
he encountered and unwillingly slew his father Laius. Arriving at Thebes he answered
the riddle of the Sphinx and the grateful Thebans made their deliverer king. So he
reigned in the room of Laius, and espoused the widowed queen. Children were born
to them and Thebes prospered under his rule, but again a grievous plague fell upon the
city. Again the oracle was consulted and it bade them purge themselves of bloodguiltiness. Oedipus denounces the crime of which he is unaware, and undertakes to
track out the criminal. Step by step it is brought home to him that he is the man. The
closing scene reveals Jocasta slain by her own hand and Oedipus blinded by his own act
and praying for death or exile.
3. DRAMATIS PERSONAE
Oedipus.
The Priest of Zeus.
Creon.
Chorus of Theban Elders.
Teiresias.
Jocasta.
Messenger.
Herd of Laius.
Second Messenger.
Scene: Thebes. Before the Palace of Oedipus.
Suppliants of all ages are seated round the altar at the palace doors, at their head a
PRIEST OF ZEUS. To them enter OEDIPUS.
OEDIPUS
My children, latest born to Cadmus old,
Why sit ye here as suppliants, in your hands
Branches of olive filleted with wool?
What means this reek of incense everywhere,
And everywhere laments and litanies?
Children, it were not meet that I should learn
From others, and am hither come, myself,
I Oedipus, your world-renowned king.
Ho! aged sire, whose venerable locks
Proclaim thee spokesman of this company,
Explain your mood and purport. Is it dread
Of ill that moves you or a boon ye crave?
My zeal in your behalf ye cannot doubt;
Ruthless indeed were I and obdurate
If such petitioners as you I spurned.
4. PRIEST
Yea, Oedipus, my sovereign lord and king,
Thou seest how both extremes of age besiege
Thy palace altars--fledglings hardly winged,
and greybeards bowed with years; priests, as am I
of Zeus, and these the flower of our youth.
Meanwhile, the common folk, with wreathed boughs
Crowd our two market-places, or before
Both shrines of Pallas congregate, or where
Ismenus gives his oracles by fire.
For, as thou seest thyself, our ship of State,
Sore buffeted, can no more lift her head,
Foundered beneath a weltering surge of blood.
A blight is on our harvest in the ear,
A blight upon the grazing flocks and herds,
A blight on wives in travail; and withal
Armed with his blazing torch the God of Plague
Hath swooped upon our city emptying
The house of Cadmus, and the murky realm
Of Pluto is full fed with groans and tears.
Therefore, O King, here at thy hearth we sit,
I and these children; not as deeming thee
A new divinity, but the first of men;
First in the common accidents of life,
And first in visitations of the Gods.
Art thou not he who coming to the town
of Cadmus freed us from the tax we paid
To the fell songstress? Nor hadst thou received
Prompting from us or been by others schooled;
No, by a god inspired (so all men deem,
And testify) didst thou renew our life.
And now, O Oedipus, our peerless king,
All we thy votaries beseech thee, find
Some succor, whether by a voice from heaven
Whispered, or haply known by human wit.
Tried counselors, methinks, are aptest found [1]
To furnish for the future pregnant rede.
Upraise, O chief of men, upraise our State!
Look to thy laurels! for thy zeal of yore
Our country's savior thou art justly hailed:
O never may we thus record thy reign:-"He raised us up only to cast us down."
Uplift us, build our city on a rock.
Thy happy star ascendant brought us luck,
O let it not decline! If thou wouldst rule
This land, as now thou reignest, better sure
5. To rule a peopled than a desert realm.
Nor battlements nor galleys aught avail,
If men to man and guards to guard them tail.
OEDIPUS
Ah! my poor children, known, ah, known too well,
The quest that brings you hither and your need.
Ye sicken all, well wot I, yet my pain,
How great soever yours, outtops it all.
Your sorrow touches each man severally,
Him and none other, but I grieve at once
Both for the general and myself and you.
Therefore ye rouse no sluggard from day-dreams.
Many, my children, are the tears I've wept,
And threaded many a maze of weary thought.
Thus pondering one clue of hope I caught,
And tracked it up; I have sent Menoeceus' son,
Creon, my consort's brother, to inquire
Of Pythian Phoebus at his Delphic shrine,
How I might save the State by act or word.
And now I reckon up the tale of days
Since he set forth, and marvel how he fares.
'Tis strange, this endless tarrying, passing strange.
But when he comes, then I were base indeed,
If I perform not all the god declares.
PRIEST
Thy words are well timed; even as thou speakest
That shouting tells me Creon is at hand.
OEDIPUS
O King Apollo! may his joyous looks
Be presage of the joyous news he brings!
PRIEST
As I surmise, 'tis welcome; else his head
Had scarce been crowned with berry-laden bays.
OEDIPUS
We soon shall know; he's now in earshot range.
[Enter CREON]
My royal cousin, say, Menoeceus' child,
What message hast thou brought us from the god?
6. CREON
Good news, for e'en intolerable ills,
Finding right issue, tend to naught but good.
OEDIPUS
How runs the oracle? thus far thy words
Give me no ground for confidence or fear.
CREON
If thou wouldst hear my message publicly,
I'll tell thee straight, or with thee pass within.
OEDIPUS
Speak before all; the burden that I bear
Is more for these my subjects than myself.
CREON
Let me report then all the god declared.
King Phoebus bids us straitly extirpate
A fell pollution that infests the land,
And no more harbor an inveterate sore.
OEDIPUS
What expiation means he? What's amiss?
CREON
Banishment, or the shedding blood for blood.
This stain of blood makes shipwreck of our state.
OEDIPUS
Whom can he mean, the miscreant thus denounced?
CREON
Before thou didst assume the helm of State,
The sovereign of this land was Laius.
OEDIPUS
I heard as much, but never saw the man.
CREON
He fell; and now the god's command is plain:
Punish his takers-off, whoe'er they be.
OEDIPUS
Where are they? Where in the wide world to find
The far, faint traces of a bygone crime?
7. CREON
In this land, said the god; "who seeks shall find;
Who sits with folded hands or sleeps is blind."
OEDIPUS
Was he within his palace, or afield,
Or traveling, when Laius met his fate?
CREON
Abroad; he started, so he told us, bound
For Delphi, but he never thence returned.
OEDIPUS
Came there no news, no fellow-traveler
To give some clue that might be followed up?
CREON
But one escape, who flying for dear life,
Could tell of all he saw but one thing sure.
OEDIPUS
And what was that? One clue might lead us far,
With but a spark of hope to guide our quest.
CREON
Robbers, he told us, not one bandit but
A troop of knaves, attacked and murdered him.
OEDIPUS
Did any bandit dare so bold a stroke,
Unless indeed he were suborned from Thebes?
CREON
So 'twas surmised, but none was found to avenge
His murder mid the trouble that ensued.
OEDIPUS
What trouble can have hindered a full quest,
When royalty had fallen thus miserably?
CREON
The riddling Sphinx compelled us to let slide
The dim past and attend to instant needs.
OEDIPUS
Well, I will start afresh and once again
8. Make dark things clear. Right worthy the concern
Of Phoebus, worthy thine too, for the dead;
I also, as is meet, will lend my aid
To avenge this wrong to Thebes and to the god.
Not for some far-off kinsman, but myself,
Shall I expel this poison in the blood;
For whoso slew that king might have a mind
To strike me too with his assassin hand.
Therefore in righting him I serve myself.
Up, children, haste ye, quit these altar stairs,
Take hence your suppliant wands, go summon hither
The Theban commons. With the god's good help
Success is sure; 'tis ruin if we fail.
[Exeunt OEDIPUS and CREON]
PRIEST
Come, children, let us hence; these gracious words
Forestall the very purpose of our suit.
And may the god who sent this oracle
Save us withal and rid us of this pest.
[Exeunt PRIEST and SUPPLIANTS]
CHORUS
(Str. 1)
Sweet-voiced daughter of Zeus from thy gold-paved Pythian shrine
Wafted to Thebes divine,
What dost thou bring me? My soul is racked and shivers with fear.
(Healer of Delos, hear!)
Hast thou some pain unknown before,
Or with the circling years renewest a penance of yore?
Offspring of golden Hope, thou voice immortal, O tell me.
(Ant. 1)
First on Athene I call; O Zeus-born goddess, defend!
Goddess and sister, befriend,
Artemis, Lady of Thebes, high-throned in the midst of our mart!
Lord of the death-winged dart!
Your threefold aid I crave
From death and ruin our city to save.
If in the days of old when we nigh had perished, ye drave
From our land the fiery plague, be near us now and defend us!
(Str. 2)
Ah me, what countless woes are mine!
All our host is in decline;
Weaponless my spirit lies.
9. Earth her gracious fruits denies;
Women wail in barren throes;
Life on life downstriken goes,
Swifter than the wind bird's flight,
Swifter than the Fire-God's might,
To the westering shores of Night.
(Ant. 2)
Wasted thus by death on death
All our city perisheth.
Corpses spread infection round;
None to tend or mourn is found.
Wailing on the altar stair
Wives and grandams rend the air-Long-drawn moans and piercing cries
Blent with prayers and litanies.
Golden child of Zeus, O hear
Let thine angel face appear!
(Str. 3)
And grant that Ares whose hot breath I feel,
Though without targe or steel
He stalks, whose voice is as the battle shout,
May turn in sudden rout,
To the unharbored Thracian waters sped,
Or Amphitrite's bed.
For what night leaves undone,
Smit by the morrow's sun
Perisheth. Father Zeus, whose hand
Doth wield the lightning brand,
Slay him beneath thy levin bold, we pray,
Slay him, O slay!
(Ant. 3)
O that thine arrows too, Lycean King,
From that taut bow's gold string,
Might fly abroad, the champions of our rights;
Yea, and the flashing lights
Of Artemis, wherewith the huntress sweeps
Across the Lycian steeps.
Thee too I call with golden-snooded hair,
Whose name our land doth bear,
Bacchus to whom thy Maenads Evoe shout;
Come with thy bright torch, rout,
10. Blithe god whom we adore,
The god whom gods abhor.
[Enter OEDIPUS.]
OEDIPUS
Ye pray; 'tis well, but would ye hear my words
And heed them and apply the remedy,
Ye might perchance find comfort and relief.
Mind you, I speak as one who comes a stranger
To this report, no less than to the crime;
For how unaided could I track it far
Without a clue? Which lacking (for too late
Was I enrolled a citizen of Thebes)
This proclamation I address to all:-Thebans, if any knows the man by whom
Laius, son of Labdacus, was slain,
I summon him to make clean shrift to me.
And if he shrinks, let him reflect that thus
Confessing he shall 'scape the capital charge;
For the worst penalty that shall befall him
Is banishment--unscathed he shall depart.
But if an alien from a foreign land
Be known to any as the murderer,
Let him who knows speak out, and he shall have
Due recompense from me and thanks to boot.
But if ye still keep silence, if through fear
For self or friends ye disregard my hest,
Hear what I then resolve; I lay my ban
On the assassin whosoe'er he be.
Let no man in this land, whereof I hold
The sovereign rule, harbor or speak to him;
Give him no part in prayer or sacrifice
Or lustral rites, but hound him from your homes.
For this is our defilement, so the god
Hath lately shown to me by oracles.
Thus as their champion I maintain the cause
Both of the god and of the murdered King.
And on the murderer this curse I lay
(On him and all the partners in his guilt):-Wretch, may he pine in utter wretchedness!
And for myself, if with my privity
He gain admittance to my hearth, I pray
The curse I laid on others fall on me.
See that ye give effect to all my hest,
For my sake and the god's and for our land,
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