Ofudesaki 06:024
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Contents
Content
| Until now, no matter what path you may have been on, | kore made wa ikanaru michi o tōritemo | これまでハ いかなるみちを とふりても |
| I kept still because the day had not yet come. | hi ga kitarande izumi ita nari | ひがきたらんで いづみいたなり |
Alternate English translations
Third Edition
Hitherto, whatever kinds of ways you may have been walking over, I was rather inactive because the day had not yet come.
Inoue/Eynon
Hitherto, although you may have taken various paths, I have held Myself back; for the time had not yet arrived.
Commentary
Ofudesaki chushaku
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6:24 Until now, despite what kinds of paths people have been following, I have been waiting still since the time to fully instruct them had still not come.
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『おふでさき註釈』、p. 90 二四、今までは、人々がどんな道を通っていても、未だ、それに就て十分諭す時機が来なかったので、親神はじっくりしていたのである。
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Yoshitaro Ueda (2009)
From Michi no dai: Foundation of the Path 35:70–1
People have been on various journeys, and “the day,” or the appropriate season, has not arrived yet. With regard to the subject of the verbal phrase “kept still,” which is a translation of the Japanese verb “izumi ita,” Ofudesaki chushaku says that it is God the Parent who has kept still. It adds that this verb here means “take one’s time,” “refrain,” and “forgo.” This interpretation is not impossible, but I think that it is also appropriate to interpret the subject of this verb to be people. The meaning of the verse is then that, because the season has yet to arrive, people have been in low spirits.
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