Analects: Book 7Book 7. Shu R 述而第七: Transmission
[7:1] The Master said, "A transmitter and not a maker, believing in and loving the ancients, I venture to compare myself with our old P'ang."
Book 7. Shù ér 述而: Transmission
[7:1] The Master said, A transmitter and not a maker, trusting in and loving antiquity, I venture to compare myself with our Old Peng.
Footnotes
[F1] The bundle of dried meat was the student’s gift for the teacher, his tuition fee.
Book 7
[7:1] The Master said, A teller and not a maker, one that trusts and loves the past; I might liken myself to our old P'eng. [F64]
Footnotes
[F64] We should be glad to know more of old P'eng, but nothing is known of him.
Book 7. Shu er 述而: Transmission
[7:1] The Master said: “I am a transmitter, rather than an original thinker. I trust and enjoy the teachings of the ancients. In my heart I compare myself to old Peng.”
Footnotes
[F15] Legge says: “[Bo Yi and Shu Qi] having given up their throne, and finally their lives, rather than doing what was wrong, and Confucius, fully approving of their conduct, it was plain he could not approve of a son's holding by force what was the rightful inheritance of the father.”
述而第七
【第一章】子曰、述而不作、信而好古、竊比於我老彭。
Confucius (Kǒng Fūzǐ (孔夫子; Kong Qui) traveled the country in an ox cart observing and teaching his numerous disciples on the subjects of civics, ethics, literature, music and science. Of course, he claimed no divine inspiration and so naturally the writings attributed to him, recorded by his disciples, also make no such claim. |