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The Birds of Heaven (also referred to as The Flowers of the Field or The Lilies of the Field) is an important discourse given by Jesus as recorded in the New Testament books of (Matthew and Luke). From Matthew 6:24–33 (King James Version "KJV"): From (KJV): ==Commentary== St. Augustine says that the parable should be taken a face value and not allegorized. It's meaning is clearly stated, "...seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."〔(Jeffrey, David L., "The Lilies of the Field", ''A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature'', Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1992, ISBN 9780802836342 )〕 Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) often referred to Matthew 6:26. For him the birds of the air and the lilies of the field represented instructors in "religious joy", an appreciation that "there is a today". For him learning joy was to learn to let go of tomorrow, not in the sense of failing to plan or provide, but in giving one's attention to the tasks of today without knowing what they will have meant.〔(Corrigan, John. ''The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Emotion'', Oxford Handbooks Online, 2008, ISBN 9780195170214 )〕 Worldly worry always seeks to lead a human being into the small-minded unrest of comparisons, away from the lofty calmness of simple thoughts. ... Should not the invitation to learn from the lilies be welcome to everyone ... As the ingenuity and busyness increase, there come to be more and more in each generation who slavishly work a whole lifetime far down in the low underground regions of comparisons. Indeed, just as miners never see the light of day, so these unhappy people never come to see the light: those uplifting, simple thoughts, those first thoughts about how glorious it is to be a human being.〔 Kierkegaard, Søren. ''Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits'', 1847〕 M. Conrad Myers sees in the reference to Solomon "and all his glory" a subtle echo of Eccesiastes 2:11 "But when I turned to all the works that my hands had wrought, and to the toil at which I had taken such pains, behold! all was vanity and a chase after wind, with nothing gained under the sun."〔(Hyer, M. Conrad. ''The Meaning of Creation: Genesis and Modern Science", Westminster John Knox Press, 1984, ISBN 9780804201254 )〕 While various attempts have been made to identify the specific type of flower,〔(Carpenter, William. ''Scripture Natural History'', Lincoln, Edmands & Company, 1833 )〕 G.E. Post suggests "lily" is here meant to include a wide assortment of wild flowers.〔(Post, G.E. "Lily", ''A Dictionary of the Bible'', Vol. III, (James Hastings, ed.), The Minerva Group, Inc., 2004, ISBN 9781410217264 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Birds of Heaven」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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