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JONAH 1:1-6

THE WORD OF THE LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai: `Go to the great city of Nineveh, go now and denounce it, for its wickedness stares me in the face.'

But Jonah set out for Tarshish to escape from the LORD. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for Tarshish. He paid his fare and went on board, meaning to travel by it to Tarshish out of reach of the LORD.

But the LORD let loose a hurricane, and the sea ran so high in the storm that the ship threatened to break up. The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his god for help. Then they threw things overboard to lighten the ship. Jonah had gone down into a corner of the ship and was lying sound asleep when the captain came upon him. `What, sound asleep?' he said. `Get up, and call on your god; perhaps he will spare us a thought and we shall not perish.'

JONAH 1: 7-13
At last the sailors said to each other, `Come and let us cast lots to find out who is to blame for this bad luck.' So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah. `Now then,' they said to him,' `[a] what is your business? Where do you come from? What is your country? Of what nation are you?' `I am a Hebrew,' he answered, `and I worship the LORD the God of heaven, who made both sea and land.' At this the sailors were even more afraid. `What can you have done wrong?' they asked. They already knew that he was trying to escape from the LORD, for he had told them so. `What shall we do with you', they asked, `to make the sea go down?' For the storm grew worse and worse. `Take me and throw me overboard,' he said, `and the sea will go down. I know it is my fault that this great storm has struck you.' The crew rowed hard to put back to land but in vain, for the sea ran higher and higher.
[a] So Sept.; Heb. adds who is to blame for this bad luck?

JONAH 1: 14-16
At last they called on the LORD and said, `O LORD, do not let us perish at the price of this man's life; do not charge us with the death of an innocent man. All this, O LORD, is thy set purpose.' Then they took Jonah and threw him overboard, and the sea stopped raging. So the crew were filled with the fear of the LORD and offered sacrifice and made vows to him.

JONAH 1: 17
But the LORD ordained that a great fish should swallow Jonah, and for three days and three nights he remained in its belly.


Jonah 2:1-10
Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the belly of the fish:
　I called to the LORD in my distress,
　　and he answered me;
　out of the belly of Sheol I cried for help,
　　and thou hast heard my cry.
　Thou didst cast me into the depths, far out at sea,
　　and the flood closed round me;
all thy waves, all thy billows, passed over me.
I thought I was banished from thy sight
and should never see thy holy temple again.
　The water about me rose up to my neck;
　　the ocean was closing over me.
　Weeds twined about my head
　　in the troughs of the mountains;
　I was sinking into the world
　　whose bars would hold me fast forever.
But thou didst bring me up alive from the pit, O LORD my God.
As my senses failed me I remembered the LORD, and my prayer reached thee in thy holy temple. Men who worship false gods may abandon their loyalty, But I will offer thee sacrifice with words of praise. I will pay my vows; victory is the LORD's.

Then the LORD spoke to the fish and it spewed Jonah out on to the dry land.

JONAH 3:1-3a
The word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time: `Go to the great city of Nineveh, go now and denounce it in the words I give you.' Jonah obeyed at once and went to Nineveh.

JONAH 3:3b-4
He began by going a day's journey into the city, a vast city, three days' journey across, and then proclaimed: `In forty days Nineveh shall be overthrown!'

JONAH 3:5-9
The people of Nineveh believed God's word. They ordered a public fast and put on sackcloth, high and low alike. When the news reached the king of Nineveh he rose from his throne, stripped off his robes of state, put on sackcloth and sat in ashes. Then he had a proclamation . made in Nineveh: `This is a decree of the king and his nobles. No man or beast, herd or flock, is to taste food, to graze or to drink water. They are to clothe themselves in sackcloth and call on God with all their might. Let every man abandon his wicked ways and his habitual violence. It may be that God will repent and turn away from his anger: and so we shall not perish.'

Jonah 3:10
God saw what they did, and how they abandoned their wicked ways, and he repented and did not bring upon them the disaster he had threatened.

Jonah 4:1-4
Jonah was greatly displeased and angry, and he prayed to the LORD: `This, O LORD, is what I feared when I was in my own country, and to forestall it I tried to escape to Tarshish. I knew that thou art ``a god gracious and compassionate, long-suffering and ever constant, and always willing to repent of the disaster''. And now, LORD, take my life: I should be better dead than alive.' `Are you so angry?' said the LORD.

JONAH 4:5-6
Jonah went out and sat down on the east of the city. There he made himself a shelter and sat in its shade, waiting to see what would happen in the city. Then the LORD God ordained that a climbing gourd (or a castor-oil plant) should grow up over his head to throw its shade over him and relieve his distress, and Jonah was grateful for the gourd.

Jonah 4:8-11
But at dawn the next day God ordained that a worm should attack the gourd, and it withered; and at sunrise God ordained that a scorching wind should blow up from the east. The sun beat down on Jonah's head till he grew faint. Then he prayed for death and said, `I should be better dead than alive.' At this God said to Jonah, `Are you so angry over the gourd?' `Yes,' he answered, `mortally angry.' The LORD said, `You are sorry to lose the gourd, though you did not have the trouble of growing it, a plant that came up in a night and withered in a night. How is it then that I should not be sorry for the great city of Nineveh, with its hundred and twenty thousand who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and cattle without number?'

Aramaic verses in Bible

聖經中以亞蘭文寫成的章節

QHST, General Information About the Text:

The Old Testament is written mostly in Hebrew, except for the following sections which are written in Aramaic (constituting about one percent of the Old Testament):

Genesis 31:47 (two words)
Jeremiah 10:11
Ezra 4:8-6:18; 7:12-26
Daniel 2:4b-7:28

The New Testament is written entirely in Greek, except, as has already been indicated, for a few Aramaic words or phrases:

Matthew 27:33
Matthew 27:46
Mark 5:41
Mark 15:22
Mark 15:34
John 19:17

Revised English Bible quotes

REB, quotes available in internet, as much as i can find out

also see seasons of devotion

Genesis 1:1-2
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was a vast waste, darkness covered the deep, and the spirit of God hovered over the surface of the water.

Psalm 10:1
Why stand far off, Lord?
Why hide away in times of trouble?

Psalm 23
1 The LORD is my shepherd; I lack for nothing.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me to water where I may rest;
3 he revives my spirit;
for his name's sake he guides me in right paths.
4 Even were I to walk through a valley of deepest darkness
I should fear no harm, for you are with me;
your shepherd's staff and crook afford me comfort.

5 You spread a table for me in the presence of my enemies;
you have richly anointed my head with oil,
and my cup brims over.
6 Goodness and love unfailing will follow me
all the days of my life,
and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD
throughout the years to come.

Psalm 22:1, 16, 30-31
1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
16 Hounds are all about me; a band of ruffians rings me round, and they have bound me hand and foot.
30-31 The coming generation will be told of the Lord; they will make known his righteous deeds, declaring to people yet unborn: The Lord has acted.

Psalm 90:1-2, 9-10 ??
Lord, You have been our dwelling place for all generations . . . Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.

We finish our years like a sigh. The days of our lives are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their boast is only labor and sorrow.

Ps 119:54
Your statutes are the theme of my song throughout my earthly life.

Ps 121
If I lift up my eyes to the hills,
where shall I find help?
My help comes only from the Lord,
maker of heaven and earth.

He will not let your foot stumble;
he who guards you will not sleep.
The guardian of Israel
never slumbers, never sleeps.

The Lord is your guardian,
your protector at your right hand;
the sun will not strike you by day
nor the moon by night.

The Lord will guard you against all harm;
he will guard your life.
The Lord will guard you as you come and go,
now and for evermore.

Ecclesiastes 8:6-7; 9:5, 11 ??
Man is greatly troubled by ignorance of the future; who can tell him what it will bring?
The living know that they will die.
Time and chance happen to them all.

Isaiah 40:28-29 ??
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary . . . He gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might He increases strength.

Proverbs 1:8-19
Attend, my son, to your father's instruction and do not reject your mother's teaching; they become like a garland on your heard, a chain of honour for your neck.

My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield. They may say: 'Join us and lie in wait for someone's blood; let us waylay some innocent person who has done us no harm. We shall swallow them like Sheol though they are alive; though in health, they will be like those who go down to the abyss. We shall take rich treasure of every sort and fill our houses with plunder. Throw in your lot with us and share the common purse.'

My son, do not go along with them, stay clear of their ways; they hasten hotfoot into crime, pressing on to shed blood. (A net is spread in vain if any bird that flies can see it.) It is for their their own blood they lie in wait; they waylay no one but themselves. Such is the fate of all who strive after ill-gotten gain: it robs of their lives all who possess it.

Isaiah 9:6
For a child has been born to us, a son is given to us; he will bear the symbol of dominion on his shoulder, and his title will be: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty Hero, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.

Amos 8:2
'What's that you are looking at?' he said. I answered, 'A basket of ripe summer fruit.' The Lord said to me, 'The time is ripe for my people Israel. Never again shall I pardon them.'

Nahum 1:12-14
12 These are the words of the LORD:
Judah, though your punishment has been great,
yet it will pass away and be gone.
I have afflicted you, but I shall not afflict you again.
13 Now I shall break his yoke from your necks
and snap the cords that bind you.
14 Nineveh, this is what the LORD has ordained for you:
No more children will be born to you;
I shall hew down image and idol
in the temples of your gods:
I shall prepare your grave,
for you are of no account.


Matthew 6:1-8
Be careful not to parade your religion before others; if you do, no reward awaits you with your Father in heaven.

'So, when you give alms, do not announce it with a flourish of trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets to win the praise of others. Truly I tell you: they have their reward already. But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right is doing; your good deed must be in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.

'Again, when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; they love to say their prayers standing up in synagogues and at street corners for everyone to see them. Truly I tell you: they have their reward already. But when you pray, go into a room by yourself, shut the door, and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.

'In your prayers do not go babbling on like the heathen, who imagine that the more they say the more likely they are to be heard. Do not imitate them, for your Father knows your needs before you ask him.

Matthew 6:9-13 (Lord's Prayer)
Our Father in heaven,
may your name be hallowed;
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread,
Forgive us the wrong we have done,
as we have forgiven those who have wronged us.
And do not put us to the test,
but save us from the evil one.

Luke 1.46-55:
My soul tells out the greatness of the Lord, my spirit has rejoiced in God my saviour; for he has looked with favour on his servant, lowly as she is. From this day forward all generations will count me blessed, for the Mighty God has done great things for me. His name is holy, his mercy sure from generation to generation toward those who fear him. He has shown the might of his arm, he has routed the proud and all their schemes; he has brought down monarchs from their thrones, and raised on high the lowly. He has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty. He has come to the help of Israel his servant, as he promised our forefathers; he has not forgotten to show mercy to Abraham and his children's children forever.

John 3:16
God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that everyone who has faith in him may not perish but have eternal life.

Acts 20:7
On the Saturday night, when we gathered for the breaking of bread, Paul, who was to leave the next day, addressed the congregation and went on speaking until midnight.

Romans 7:14-25
We know that the law is spiritual; but I am not: I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not even acknowledge my own actions as mine, for what I do is not what I want to do, but what I detest. But if what I do is against my will, then clearly I agree with the law and hold it to be admirable. This means that it is no longer I who perform the action, but sin that dwells in me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me---my unspiritual self, I mean---for though the will to do good is there, the ability to effect it is not. The good which I want to do, I fail to do; but what I do is the wrong which is against my will; and if what I do is against my will, clearly it is no longer I who am in the agent, but sin that has dwelling in me.

I discover the principle, then: that when I want to do right, only wrong is within my reach. In my inmost self I delight in the law of God, but I perceive in my outward actions a different law, fighting against the law that my mind approves, and making me a prisoner under the law of sin which controls my conduct. Wretched creature that I am, who is there to rescue me from this state of death? Who but God? Thanks be to him through Jesus Christ our Lord! To sum up then: left to myself I serve God's law with my mind, but with my unspiritual nature I serve the law of sin.


Romans 13:1-2
Every person must submit to the authorities in power, for all authority comes from God, and the existing authorities are instituted by him. It follows that anyone who rebels against authority is resisting a divine institution, and those who resist have themselves to thank for the punishment they will receive.

1 Corinthian 13:8-
Love will never come to an end. Prophecies will cease; tongues of ecstasy will fall silent; knowledge will vanish. For our knowledge and our prophecy alike are partial, and the partial vanishes when wholeness comes. ... At present we see only puzzling reflections in a mirror, but one day we shall see face to face. My knowledge now is partial; then it will be whole, like God's knowledge of me. There are three things that last for ever: faith, hope, and love; and the greatest of the three is love.

Colossians 3:9-10
You have discarded the old human nature and the conduct that goes with it, and have put on the new nature which is constantly being renewed.

1 Timothy 1:3-7
When I was starting for Macedonia, I urged you to stay on at Ephesus. You were to instruct certain people to give up teaching erroneous doctrines and devoting themselves to interminable myths and genealogies, which give rise to mere speculation, and do not further God's plan for us, which works through faith.

This instruction has love as its goal, the love which springs from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a genuine faith. Through lack of these some people have gone astray into a wilderness of words. They set out to be teachers of the law, although they do not understand either the words they use or the subjects about which they are so dogmatic.

1 Timothy 6:3-5a
Anyone who teaches otherwise, and does not devote himself to sound precepts – that is, those of our Lord Jesus Christ – and to good religious teaching, is a pompous ignoramous with a morbid enthusiasm for mere speculations and quibbles. These give rise to jealousy, quarrelling, slander, base suspicions, and endless wrangles – all typical of those whose minds are corrupted and who have lost their grip of the truth.

2 Peter 3:8 ??
Do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

1 John 3:17
But if someone who possesses the good things of this world sees a fellow-Christian in need and withholds compassion from him, how can it be said that the love of God dwells in him?

James 1:17 ??
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.

bible translations in english

NJPS, Jewish Tanakh
NJB, Catholics, functional equivalence
NRSV, ecumenical, formal equivalence

Alter's (Torah, Samuel, Psalm, Wisdom Books)

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NEB, modern scholarship (Time review) (OT parts, NT)

Gen 1:1
In the beginning of creation, when God made heaven and earth, the earth was without form and void, with darkness over the face of the abyss, and a mighty wind that swept over the surface of the waters.

Isaiah 9:6
For a boy has been born for us, a son given to us to bear the symbol of dominion on his shoulder; and he shall be called in purpose wonderful, in battle God-like, Father for all time (or, of a wide realm) , Prince of peace.

Matthew 20:12
Have sweated the whole day long in the blazing sun!

Luke 10:40
Tell her to come and lend a hand.

Nahum 1:11-14
These are the words of the LORD:

13 Now I will break his yoke from your necks and snap the cords that bind you. 14 Image and idol will I hew down in the house of your God. This is what the LORD has ordained for you: never again shall your offspring be scattered; and I will grant you burial, fickle though you have been. 12 Has the punishment been so great? Yes, but it has passed away and is gone. I have afflicted you, but I will not afflict you again.


Daniel
Before they reached the floor of the pit the lions were upon them and crunched them up, bones and all.

Deuteronomy 23: 13
When you squat outside the camp, you shall scrape a hole ... and cover your excrement.

Ps 121
If I lift up my eyes to the hills, where shall I find help?

Ecc 1:1
Emptiness, emptiness, says the Speaker, emptiness, all is empty.

REB, with its literary quality recognized

Psalm 10:1
Why stand far off, Lord?
Why hide away in times of trouble?

Psalm 23
1 The LORD is my shepherd; I lack for nothing.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me to water where I may rest;
3 he revives my spirit;
for his name's sake he guides me in right paths.
4 Even were I to walk through a valley of deepest darkness
I should fear no harm, for you are with me;
your shepherd's staff and crook afford me comfort.

5 You spread a table for me in the presence of my enemies;
you have richly anointed my head with oil,
and my cup brims over.
6 Goodness and love unfailing will follow me
all the days of my life,
and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD
throughout the years to come.


1 Timothy 1:3-7
When I was starting for Macedonia, I urged you to stay on at Ephesus. You were to instruct certain people to give up teaching erroneous doctrines and devoting themselves to interminable myths and genealogies, which give rise to mere speculation, and do not further God's plan for us, which works through faith.

This instruction has love as its goal, the love which springs from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a genuine faith. Through lack of these some people have gone astray into a wilderness of words. They set out to be teachers of the law, although they do not understand either the words they use or the subjects about which they are so dogmatic.

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Knox's from latin Vulgate, stylish

Jonah 2
And what of Jonas? At the Lord's bidding, a great sea-beast had swallowed him up; and there, in the belly of it, three days spent he and three nights. This was the prayer which Jonas made to the Lord his God, there in the belly of the sea-beast: Call I on the Lord in my sperril, redress he grants me; from the very womb of the grave call I, you are listening to me! Here in the depths of the sea's heart you would cast me away, with the flood all about me, eddy of yours, ave of yours, sweeping over me, till it seemed as I were shut out from your regard: yet life you grant me; I shall gaze on your holy temple once again.
(thou => you, etc.)

何俊仁, 梁國華

壹週刊 2010-08-19 A080-084 | 時事 | 非常人語

仁哥開火----何俊仁

大家總是將焦點放在何俊仁的頭部，就連綽號也叫「鐵頭仁」，可是記者覺得他像極《Toy Story》裡面的薯蛋頭先生。不約而同，鐵頭仁與薯蛋頭玩具都在五十八年前誕生。

政改一役，民主派支持者罵他轉；記者也以為他就像薯蛋頭先生，一砸之下眼耳口鼻掉下，落得個面目模糊的民主派。

事隔不到兩月，鐵頭仁民望勁升，成為第三受歡迎立法會議員；最近白鴿黨支持度也升了一16%，「我一向估到，但你見公民黨也升了。」這個民主黨主席說：「不少人企硬（反對政改方案），但這兩邊人不一定排斥，鄭家富也高。」

反觀社民連下跌，「有支持者問，社民連咩事？點解靜晒？係咪（因為黃毓民）個仔拉？」

基於市民眼睛是雪亮的，鐵頭哥哥未必一定赤化。

訪問期間，他炮轟特首、司長、共產黨，廣結仇家，距離建制派便更遙遠，雖然他說：「我不需要用說話來證明我不是建制派。」

「權力來源好緊要。當年彭定康跟馬卓安有交情，英國外次到港，肥彭挑佢。」何的權力來自選民，「有人話我見李剛，高官喎，我話你知，我見胡錦濤都係咁話，我唔會怕你，我怕你什麼？你又唔可以炒我，又唔會殺我！」

何俊仁跟記者說，往後再跟中央談判時，希望曾蔭權加入，可是他對特首踩得很盡，以煲呔的胸襟，應該睬佢都傻。

政改時候，他不是代表香港人，只是中央一個印鑑，rubber stamp，起碼我們的印象是這樣，他說：「我唔係咁！」但佢話唔到俾我聽。所以我話佢廢廢，有些人認同。當然，廢廢不是全廢，可能他做了什麼，我不知道。

如果我是他，起碼公開講是否支持直選，起碼保持異議：「我唔同意（中央）這個睇法，但你決定了，我沒辦法。」但佢唔夠膽講。

他頂多只是一個行政人才，卻自封政治家，真係笑死人。我覺得他由頭至尾，提升上去，不是他能力所及，可能他是很好的執行人；作為政治人，每次無稿就錯，竟說極端民主是文革，他上到大陸都被人笑。坐得這個位，人家定會問他最敏感的問題，跟阿爺的關係，之後問六四，這是考試ＡＢＣ，他應背熟答案，但也答得不好。

你應該記得Jimmy Carter（美國前總統卡特），好少總統像他，做一屆便玩完。他做州長OK，一做總統，遇到大事，完全無能力應付，第二屆便輸了。有人品評他：「The job is too big for him!」

我們的特首遇上重要大事，處理不到，probably the job is too big for him。第一把交椅與第二把交椅是天與地的分別，你可能是一個很好的師爺，但一坐上特首，分別便在這裡。你想想，Reagan（列根總統）唔使點做，但要有political judgement，判斷要好準確，第二用人要叻，第三要inspire public confidence，要人信你，只此三樣，其他小事可以不理，所以Reagan成日放假；Jimmy Carter日日做十二、三個鐘，就像阿董。

如果你問我，對唔住，這個job唔適合佢（曾蔭權），佢無political judgement，點解？佢無政治理念。要有政治理念，才support到政治勇氣，因為世事有時不是計較成敗，去到某條線要堅持一些，否則唔撈，就係咁簡單。

生存

中央看見他政治歷練不夠，但這不是死位，中央只有政治錯誤才是致命的錯，以阿曾咁鬼死小心，只會犯對香港人來說的政治錯誤，講埋晒戇居。

不只失言，有理由相信，有些事中央插手，例如紅灣半島、西九，當時新世界話明無得傾，唔拆起過，點向股東交代？但三日後就轉，點解？我睇唔到阿曾搞得佢掂喎！

他在這個制度生存到，是一國兩制不幸的地方。生存好困難，要犧牲自己好多，而好多時，有才能 、有性格的人生存不到。阿曾的生存能力可能高過他其他能力，你見阿董死，陳方安生死，佢都未死，這兩個人肯定叻過佢，起碼有些地方叻過佢。

在這個大時代，一國兩制的微妙關係，一個好珍惜自己拿到爵士，迷戀英國文化的人 —— 他不認識中國文化，國語都唔識講 —— 都上到位，你便看見一國兩制荒謬的地方，最後生存的政治領袖是什麼人？未必是香港人覺得理想的人，未必值得驕傲的人，坦白講，曾蔭權不值得我們驕傲，但佢搵到食，一開始在蜜月期還得到幾高民望，當時我幾奇怪，無理由佢值得咁高民望。

無論如何，如果survival便是勝利，香港有點悲哀，他勝利了，因為他生存到。我也不覺得陳方安生好認識共產黨、中國文化，不過有原則的人、叻人好難生存，一國兩制不容許太有原則、有性格的人。

（共產黨需要奴才坐鎮這個位？）如果人人覺得他是奴才，他便失敗，所以不需要這種奴才，需要叻少少的奴才。（不能廢到出面？）你說得對，不能廢到出面，所以在這個制度下，俾你做（特首）都唔好做，點做？

三司

香港將來都係大鑊，無民主都係死，你睇幾個司長都好差，完全沒有政治歷練。唐英年是太子仔，咬住金鎖匙上，靠人脈關係。他是好好先生，作為朋友 —— 當然我無資格跟他做朋友 —— 我相信他是幾平和的人，劉千石也說他是相對有良心的資本家，但從政這樣不足夠，我跟他做過兩年立法會，記不起他講過什麼說話。

鬍鬚曾直情無晒鬥志，有次他不舒服（去年心絞痛通波仔），之後上班，我帶一、兩個立法會同事上去探他，只想寒暄兩句：「身體點呀？」他也戰戰兢兢，步步為營，找兩個副官在旁，整張長，分兩邊坐，像中聯辦。如果他有些鬥志，想做些事出來，不會到今日仍然停留在這階段。

那年金融海嘯，他好想我們通過財政預算案，當時budget二千億，如果加三百億創造就業，我們便支持了，但他不肯；減到二百億，李卓人都肯，都無偈傾；那二百億不用俾credit我們，就當作應民建聯要求，入他們數，都係唔得，結果那年廿幾票反對。到了六月，他卻拿百多二百億上來，本來可以當日給我們的，就是不肯提早兩個月。這令我覺得佢無乜鬥志，我唔覺得佢可以選特首。

黃仁龍能力比較強 —— 但有人傳佢會唔做，因為無癮 —— 我相信他的integrity，但有一、兩單案，我們法律界覺得好有問題：王見秋案，你話唔告，當然你可以酌情處理，但睇證據，如果這個不是王見秋，一早告，無得解釋。

（黃仁龍、王見秋是老死？）個圈子好細，大家都熟。你見馮華健單案，無人敢審，最後李國能點名叫一個人做。這對大狀公信力影響好大，證據咁清楚，點解唔可以審？（眾人跟馮友好？）唔會friend到咁，但大家唔想得罪人。

我們律師樓做最多醫療疏忽，發現醫醫相，搵港大醫學教授指證中大教授，好難；搵伊利沙伯醫院醫生指證威爾斯醫生，好難好難，香港始終地方細，大家是師兄弟。今次大律師公會整單咁（大狀相），也是因為圈子細，但也不應該不做。

中共

港人上街，捍自由多，爭取民主少，何俊仁解釋原因。

香港人好清楚知道，只要有自由，可以搵錢，不要動輒拉人，不要封鋪，不明顯審查新聞自由，不打壓遊行示威，總之讓人覺得生活方式不變，否則燈，所以政府不敢碰支聯會，一碰燈；李柱銘、司徒華唔好拉，他們是燈，廿三條就是碰這些。

好了，爭取民主，人有無能感，你要阿爺交權出來，有點與虎謀皮，這種無能感導致出來（示威）人數不多。我的朋友說今次否決（政改），七一好多人出來，特首就會瓜柴，中央會再拿方案出來，大家滿意……唔會o架，第一無咁多人出來，第二北京唔會讓步，即使阿曾下台，小事，換人再上，又一個蜜月期，做好多令人條氣順番。

我本書有講「圍城下的偏安格局」，你不改變城外包圍者（中央）心態，即使打到城內（特區）政府都無用，換過個囉，類似傀儡，董建華退下，曾蔭權上，之後唐英年，對他們來說無所謂，但權力架構不會讓你改變。人們便知道拿這個惡爺沒法，只有守住，長遠抗爭。

長期以來，好多人唔信共產黨，甚至恐懼共產黨。我唔恐懼共產黨，我知道它厲害，但不迴避，要應戰，我現在做的就是跟它交手，改變它。（改變共產黨？）當然，我盡我一分力量，許家屯 —— 雖然走佬 —— 他說過：「促進和平演變。」這個時代，無能力革命，只有爭取改變它，這個極權專制政府是我一生要改變的對手，我要改變一個極權制度，真正釋放人民。

話雖如此，政改至今，兩份左報擔當民主黨的王朝、馬漢，經常護航，難免令人懷疑白鴿、共產兩黨有路。

好心他們不要說那麼多，我們不需要他們的政治解說，尤其他們的思維跟我們很不同。（人家以身相許，也不受溝？）但你知道他們反轉個肚是什麼。我最想要的解說就是這樣傾偈，所以今次你問咁耐，都算啦，你有心，我便談多一點。希望我說的不是太廢！

蘋果日報 2010年07月31日
八方人物：民女不是神「保護嘅係一個價值」

記者　許偉賢

「差人搶嘢！」 50歲的支聯會常委梁國華，兩個月前在時代廣場外做了 80後式的「激進」行為──死攬着被警方及食環署人員強搶的民主女神像不放。其實，相較 14年前在天安門廣場上獻花，這一次算不了甚麼。「我唔係勇敢，只不過了咗一個心願。」那一個舉動，差點令梁國華成為第二個劉山青。

一切要從 89年 6月 3日說起。當年 29歲的梁國華突然心血來潮，要到與中國類同的地方體驗社會主義生活狀況。他選了蘇聯，由北京乘坐東方快車前往。他訂了 6月 3日的航班，出發前一晚明知北京「出事」，仍然繼續旅程。結果機上的 11位乘客，「一個一個被屋企人 call落機」，剩下他與四位日本公司熊谷組員工，「佢哋係去接番啲國民，仲問我點解仲去上面旅行」。

村民擋軍隊　感動加入

落機後在機場酒店住了一晚，翌日準備乘車到使館區申請簽證。「嗰時冇車出，但路邊就有排軍隊，有好多中國人圍住佢哋；有人問我係咪香港人，話政府噚晚殺咗人，唔想畀佢（軍隊）入去再殺人，要圍住佢。」

這一幕令他深受感動，終在當地逗留三天，並成為抵擋軍隊進城的一員。有村民在 6月 7日跟他說：「你回去吧，將這件事告訴所有人，我們就會好開心。」梁國華將身上所有剩餘物資交予村民，隻身回港，對此事一直念念不忘，「我應承過要為佢哋做啲嘢」。

天安門獻花　公安查問

90年逛年宵，途經支聯會攤位，往事忽然湧上心頭，「我買咗 100張揮春同 50張書籤，由銅鑼灣派到西環；之後又再去買，去港大派。到第三次去買，同支聯會義工傾偈，佢哋知道我原來買嚟派街坊，即刻問我有冇興趣做義工。我即時應承，仲即刻幫手喺現場派」。

回歸前一年，梁國華有個想法，「好想去天安門廣場行一趟，有啲嘢好想表達」。當時已是支聯會常委的他「驚出事」，特別參加北京旅行團，希望有其他團友「掩護」，結果他成功進京。到了參觀毛澤東紀念堂那一天，他向團友說要去買花，獨個離了隊，拿着花束踏入天安門，走近人民英雄紀念碑，「我一擺低紮花，即刻有公安同便衣上前捉住我隻手，然後拉我上附近一部車盤問」。

惡形惡相的公安指他違法獻花，梁國華卻膽大包天「駁嘴」，「我話如果有人喺城樓嗰邊，想拎紮花過去拜毛澤東而你唔畀，係犯反革命罪；你妨礙我堅持毛澤東思想，更加違法」。公安不防有此刁民，氣得不得了，「佢好嬲，即刻大叫你攞番紮花即刻走」。
看民女被搶　死守不放

公安放人，梁國華即撇，卻在離開廣場前的隧道口再犯險，「放低花、鞠躬，然後逃走，嗰班友已追緊上嚟」。在毛澤東紀念堂等候他的團友，知道他在天安門獻花後個個破口大罵，「佢哋話你儍 o架，知唔知有個叫劉山青俾人拉咗呀？我冇諗呢個問題，只係覺得應該做嘅就要做」。 97年 7月中他再次入境，這一次終於被認出，從此沒有了回鄉證，「我累咗其他叫梁國華嘅人，因為個個入境都被人盤問，我識嘅都有三個」。

今年 5月 29日，他看着民主女神像在時代廣場被搶，表現十分激憤，「我點可以企喺度蹺埋隻手等佢搬走」。結果他死守不放，高叫「差人搶嘢！」做了 96年後另一次好激的行為。他重申民女不是神：「我要保護嘅係一個價值，唔係一個塑像咁簡單。」

JRR Tolkien's Jonah

約拿書
quote from Davar Akher, Praise the Lord (of the Rings)

Jonah 1:1-2

NJPS: The word of the LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai:
Go at once to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim judgment upon it; for their wickedness has come before Me.

Tolkien (JB): The word of Yahweh was addressed to Jonah son of Amittai:
'Up!' he said. 'Go to Nineveh, the great city, and inform them that their wickedness has become known to me.'

NJB: The word of Yahweh was addressed to Jonah son of Amittai:
'Up!' he said, 'Go to Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim to them that their wickedness has forced itself upon me.'

Jonah 3:3b

NJPS: Nineveh was an enormously large city a three days' walk across.

Tolkien: Now Nineveh was a city great beyond compare: it took three days to cross it.

NJB: Now Nineveh was a city great beyond compare; to cross it took three days.

Jonah 4:11 (God's final word that closes the book)

NJPS: And should not I care about Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not yet know their right hand from their left, and many beasts as well!

Tolkien: And am I not to feel sorry for Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, to say nothing of all the animals?

NJB: So why should I not be concerned for Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, to say nothing of all the animals?

NJPS: He said:
In my trouble I called to the Lord,
And He answered me;
From the belly of Sheol I cried out,
And You heard my voice. (Verse 4)

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