| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: press of foes, even though many of my company stood by, and
were aiming at the enemy. Alone Philoctetes in the Trojan
land surpassed me with the bow in our Achaean archery. But
I avow myself far more excellent than all besides, of the
mortals that are now upon the earth and live by bread. Yet
with the men of old time I would not match me, neither with
Heracles nor with Eurytus of Oechalia, who contended even
with the deathless gods for the prize of archery. Wherefore
the great Eurytus perished all too soon, nor did old age
come on him in his halls, for Apollo slew him in his wrath,
seeing that he challenged him to shoot a match. And with
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A treatise on Good Works by Dr. Martin Luther: is especially the duty of those who are commanded to preach God's
Word, yet every Christian is also obligated to do so when time
and place demand. For we must for the holy Name of God risk and
give up all that we have and can do, and show by our deeds that
we love God and His Name, His honor and His praise above all
things, and trust Him above all things, and expect good from Him;
thereby confessing that we regard Him as the highest good, for
the sake of which we let go and give up all other goods.
XXIX. Here we must first of all resist all wrong, where truth or
righteousness suffers violence or need, and dare make no
distinction of persons, as some do, who fight most actively and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: P. Crassum mittunt, si velit suos recuperare, obsides sibi remittat.
Quibus de rebus Caesar a Crasso certior factus, quod ipse aberat
longius, naves interim longas aedificari in flumine Ligeri, quod influit
in Oceanum, remiges ex provincia institui, nautas gubernatoresque
comparari iubet. His rebus celeriter administratis ipse, cum primum per
anni tempus potuit, ad exercitum contendit. Veneti reliquaeque item
civitates cognito Caesaris adventu [certiores facti], simul quod quantum
in se facinus admisissent intellegebant, [legatos, quod nomen ad omnes
nationes sanctum inviolatumque semper fuisset, retentos ab se et in
vincula coniectos,] pro magnitudine periculi bellum parare et maxime ea
quae ad usum navium pertinent providere instituunt, boc maiore spe quod
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