Hayatın Ruhu: İnsanı Taçlandıran Ruh Üzerine

Upon my bed at night, my thoughts arose and sleep wandered from my eyes, and the contemplation did not allow me to rest. My heart was troubled: What is man that God should remember him, and the son of man that He should take account of him? Is this not the king of the earth, whose hands are fashioned by the hands of the One who said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness"? What advantage does the son of man have over all the beasts of the earth and the mute living creatures? If it be in the way of his body and the perfection of his formation, are they not swifter in movement, each with its own weapon of war in its hand? He established for them a law and a natural ordinance; He gave to the ox horns, to the porcupine its quills, to the lion its jaws, to the tortoise its shell, and to the leopard and the lion their claws. Each one knows its own weapon and carries it, saying, "I shall reign." Their garments do not wear out from upon them all the days of their lives, for nature prepares for them clothing and covering in abundance.