The water in the clouds is dark - what does it mean? Evgeniy Peremyshlev.
Dark water in the clouds
Studying language clichés
in a school lesson
Often, it would seem that the simplest topics and concepts pose a certain difficulty for studying at school. This is the case, for example, with the study of proverbs, sayings and linguistic clichés, with which the Russian language is so rich.
At first glance, there seems to be nothing complicated here, but it is enough to look at any special study to understand how complex this area of literature is. Let's start with the definitions themselves. What is considered a proverb, what is a saying, and what is just a stable phrase?
In serious literature, methods of structural analysis and typological studies are used to study these linguistic units. All this, of course, can only add difficulties for schoolchildren, who need to be taught only the very basics of knowledge.
And therefore, it is reasonable to structure a lesson dedicated to this difficult topic in a special way, structure it according to the principle of a quiz, so that students independently try to figure out how certain artistic units function.
We will divide the lesson into three parts. In the introduction, we will offer students the definitions of proverbs and sayings, as they are given in the literary encyclopedic dictionary.
“A proverb is a short, rhythmically organized, figurative folk saying that is stable in speech. When used in a figurative meaning - according to the principle of analogy - to its literal meaning... a proverb contains an aphoristically condensed expression of some facet of folk experience; the subject of the statement is considered in the light of the generally accepted truth expressed by the proverb.”
“A proverb is a figurative expression that aptly defines and evaluates any phenomenon in life. A saying is often based on a metaphor, comparison, hyperbole, idiomatic expression, or paradox. Unlike a proverb, a saying is always monomonic, always represents a part of a judgment and is usually devoid of a general instructive meaning.”
Having this initial knowledge about the subject, you should proceed to the second, main part of the lesson. The teacher offers the class proverbs, sayings and language clichés from other languages, and the students, in turn, must find Russian equivalents for them. Immediately warn the class that they first need to pay attention not to the external form, but to the essence of the expressions, this will make it easier to choose the appropriate “answer.” (But, after the work is completed, we will still invite students to answer the question: what is the difference between proverbs, sayings and phraseological units?)
Material for the game:
Foreign proverbs and sayings
and their Russian analogues
1. The one who walks will cross the steppe (Finnish).
The one who walks will master the road.
2. There is no person without flaws (Turkish).
The horse has four legs, and even he stumbles.
3. He who carries water breaks the jug (Turkish).
He who does nothing makes no mistakes.
4. And kings make mistakes (Vietnamese).
Simplicity is enough for every wise man.
5. Bread with crust (Lithuanian) everywhere.
There is no rose without thorns.
6. The new jug contains cold water (Persian).
The new broom sweeps cleanly.
7. If a cat had wings, sparrows would not live (Lezgin).
God does not give horns to a carnivorous cow.
8. A hurrying cockroach will get into the soup (Udmurt).
If you hurry, you will make people laugh.
9. There is no point in scolding the cat when the cheese is eaten (French).
After a fight they don’t wave their fists.
10. As you go to bed, so will you sleep (Gagauzian).
As it comes back, so will it respond.
11. I drew a dragon, but it turned out to be a worm (Vietnamese).
I shot at a sparrow and hit a crane.
12. There is a lot of black in the sea, but not all of them are seals (Finnish).
All that glitters is not gold.
13. A wife and husband are like chopsticks: always in pairs (Vietnamese).
Husband and wife are one Satan.
14. If two cooks are busy at one stove, dinner burns (Assyrian).
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
15. Separation is the death of love (French).
Out of sight, out of mind.
16. Fight like a fish on the kitchen table (Vietnamese).
Fight like a fish on ice.
17. Drunk like a lord (English).
Drunk as hell.
18. When pigs fly (English).
After the rain on Thursday.
19. In the goat’s mouth there is sweet grass (Persian).
There is no friend for the taste and color.
20. The resulting vinegar is better than the promised halva (Persian).
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
21. If my aunt had a beard, she would be my uncle (Persian).
If wishes were horses beggars might ride.
At the end of the lesson, students express own opinion about the material covered, share their observations on how proverbs and sayings function in the Russian language environment.
The teacher summarizes the lesson and draws the necessary conclusions. By the way, we should not forget that many Russian proverbs and sayings have almost literal equivalents in other languages.
The teacher can also expand the material for comparison using the most different sources, not only are suitable here special dictionaries, but also collections of aphorisms, simply fiction.
From the Bible (Church Slavonic text). IN Old Testament, The Psalter (Psalm 17, Art. 12) says about God: “And lay your darkness, around him his village, dark water in the clouds of the air.” Russian translation: “And he made darkness his covering over the canopy around... ... Dictionary winged words and expressions
It is unknown, this mystery is great, covered in the darkness of the unknown, unclear, history is silent about this, a mystery covered in darkness, unknown, incomprehensible, this mystery is great is a Dictionary of Russian synonyms. the water in the clouds is dark adverb, number of synonyms: 9 ... ... Dictionary of synonyms
See unclear... Dictionary of Russian synonyms and similar expressions. under. ed. N. Abramova, M.: Russian dictionaries, 1999 ... Dictionary of synonyms
Book Joking. iron. What's l. about? incomprehensible, tricky, unclear (statement, text, idea, etc.). F 1, 69; BTS, 139. /i> Turnover biblical origin. BMS 1998, 87; FSRY, 73; DP, 849... Big dictionary Russian sayings
dark water in the clouds- book. About what is unclear, incomprehensible, mysterious... Dictionary of many expressions
Dark is the water in the clouds (heavenly)- DARK WATER IN THE CLOUDS (HEAVENLY). Book Express Completely incomprehensible, unclear. Dunya spoke about the Khlyst faith, without, of course, mentioning either Saint Martin, Ton, or others mystical writers. She knew that all this was for Agrafena... ... Phraseological Dictionary of the Russian Literary Language
The water is dark in the clouds of air. See TRUE NEWS... V.I. Dahl. Proverbs of the Russian people
Wed. Whether or not the ministers want to pay attention to this later, I will present them with the facts. This, brother, is still dark in the clouds, what will the ministers tell you... Pisemsky. People of the forties. 4, 21. Wed. Why was the road built, how long in... ... Michelson's Large Explanatory and Phraseological Dictionary
The water is dark in the clouds of air. Wed. “Whether the ministers wish to pay attention to this or not, I will present them with the facts.” This, brother, is still dark in the clouds, what will the ministers tell you... Pisemsky. People of the forties. 4... Michelson's Large Explanatory and Phraseological Dictionary (original spelling)
Y, wine. water, plural waters, waters and waters, waters and waters; about the waters and about the waters; and. 1. Transparent, colorless liquid, forming streams, rivers, lakes, seas and representing chemical compound hydrogen with oxygen. Rechnaya v. Marine v. IN.… … Encyclopedic Dictionary
Books
- “Dark is the water in the clouds...”, Vl. Gakov. A wide variety of speculations, superstitious ideas, and mystical speculations have arisen around the so-called unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Do UFOs really exist? What if...
- The water in the clouds is dark. Science fiction novel, Alexander Fedorovich Tebenkov. New novel is a continuation of the SF novel “Dreams in Dreams and in reality.” In a provincial laboratory, Barinov comes close to unraveling some of the abilities of psychics. Similar studies in... e-book
St. Athanasius the Great
And cover Your darkness, that is, the invisible and invisible presence of the Savior with people. Around His is His settlement. In words: His village- means the holy Church in which he promised to dwell. Around Him, according to what was said: where two or three are gathered in My name, there I am in the midst of them (Matt. 18.20). He says this because of the darkness of what was said about Him by the Prophets, who are also called clouds.
Interpretation of the Psalms.
St. Neil of Sinai
What is said in the seventeenth psalm: “cover your darkness” (Ps. 17:12) , - means that the abysses of God’s judgments are incomprehensible, unsearchable and not understood.
Letters to different topics. Markian.
St. Simeon the New Theologian
And cover thy darkness: his village is round about him: dark is the water in the clouds of air.
But lest you think that just as you were sitting in the darkness, so the Lord entered into the darkness and hid himself (covered in darkness), for this Saint David also says: around His village is His. Settlement St. Paul calls this light: in the living light we are unapproachable (1 Timothy 6:16). However, both of them, the Prophet David and the Apostle Paul, when, wanting to show that His Divinity is incomprehensible, they say alone that around His village is His and the other that He lives in the light unapproachable, they either show that God is somehow limited and described, but they use such a figurative expression for the inquisitive, as if saying to them: O foolish inquirers, do not think that our Lord and God, having ascended, entered into some darkness and hid . He always abides in the glory of His Divinity, which fills everything and is more (more expansive) than everything in which glory He abided before everything happened; but may we not perish completely from the lightning flashes of His Divinity, He laid darkness for His shelter, which covered not Him, but us, for our God, says the Scripture, eat fire (Hebrews 12:29) not the righteous, but sinners.
Words (Word 45th).
Blzh. Theodoret of Cyrus
And cover thy darkness: his village is round about him: dark is the water in the clouds of air.
Evfimy Zigaben
And put it down(did) tmu for shelter(bedspread) mine.
By darkness we mean that which cannot be seen. So, the Lord created an invisible cover for himself or around himself, that is, having ascended into heaven, he hid from the eyes of the apostles. Or by darkness we can also understand the human flesh of Jesus Christ, since His Divinity was hidden in it.
Or: put darkness, i.e. He made his Divinity inaccessible to our knowledge, so that darkness strikes everyone who tries to penetrate with their minds into this depth of divine knowledge.
Around His village(canopy) His.
The prophet calls our flesh accepted by the Lord a village, which the Lord Himself called His temple (John 2:19), because He dwelt in her not only ghostly, but actually, ineffably inhabiting her, as omnipotent. And the prophet said this here in order to show that Christ ascended to heaven along with his flesh and did not leave it on earth, as some false teachers unjustly claimed. Or: the prophet calls the village of God the unapproachable radiance of His Divinity, since God is in the Holy. Scripture describes, among other things, dwelling in the inaccessible light that surrounds Him, in the light that closes the being of God from us and makes Him inaccessible to those who want to contemplate Him with their own eyes.
The water is dark in the clouds of air.
The prophet calls the mystery about Christ water, the prophecy about Him clouds; Thus, his words receive the meaning that the prophecies relating to Jesus Christ and contained in the Scriptures of the prophets are generally dark and difficult to understand during their fulfillment. The prophet calls this mystery water because it has a refreshing effect on those who have hitherto been mired in error. He called prophecies clouds for the reason that they, as if in some fog, usually hide within themselves what they are talking about. Word air added to them in order to express the purity of their contemplation. However, in St. In the Scriptures, prophecies in general are sometimes called clouds, and not even rarely. So, for example, the prophet Isaiah, having called the house of Israel a vineyard in one place, immediately mentions the clouds to which the command of God was given so that they would no longer give rain to this vineyard ( Is. 5,6 and 7), that is, so that the prophets would stop their prophecies among the people of Israel.
Prot. Sergiy Ternovsky
Art. 12-14 And put His cover upon the darkness: His village is round about Him: the waters are dark in the clouds of the air. From the shedding before Him came clouds, hail, and coals of fire. And the Lord roared from Heaven, and the Most High gave His voice
You see a dark, thick cloud; it seems that it has crushed your feelings, the life of nature is lurking in some mysterious silence, everything is gloomy, you want to see, you don’t see and seem to be giving yourself up to sleep. Suddenly lightning flashes and thunder shakes the air; it awakens the life of nature, softens the air and fertilizes the earth; awakens you too. You see a light that calls you from the earthly to the heavenly. So it is in the matter of our salvation: faith, like an impenetrable cloud, hides the secrets of heavenly life from you; as if it lies on your mind and suppresses its activity; everything seems gloomy to you, everything is incomprehensible, but suddenly, like lightning, some extraordinary feeling flashes in your soul; at the same time it awakens you, brings you into fear, and gives birth to joy. Then what seemed incomprehensible to you is revealed more clearly to you; It’s as if you see the Lord before you, then you can say: we believe in Him! Some light shines on you; He is together and creates the meek your heart, and awakens in you the power to do good. Hold on to this feeling; by the grace of God, it will be repeated and will lead you to the beatific vision of the Lord.
It seems that St. was in this position. the prophet, when he says: cover your darkness, the water is dark in the clouds of the air, because the clouds before him have been shed. And the Lord roared from heaven, and the Most High gave His voice.
Cover your darkness around His village, the water is dark... His village is surrounded by gloomy airy water, or gloomy clouds. This prophet depicts the incomprehensibility of the being of God. According to Theodore, bow the heavens means the descent of God onto earth; summer, summer on the windy wing, the sudden appearance of the Lord: the clouds were shed. Afan. Alexander. words: the waters were dark in the clouds of the air; from the shedding of the clouds before Him came the clouds, hail and coals of fire, explains as follows: dark water in the clouds of air- He says this because of the darkness of what was said about Him by the prophets, who are also called clouds. From the leafing of the clouds before Him came- the light of His coming made the prophecies clear. Hail and coals of fire- and since there are also threats in the prophecies, he presented this too under the image of hail and coals. Just as from the illumination of the sermon, like clouds, the apostles passed before Him and watered the world, so the hail serves as an image of various executions determined for unbelievers, which, after the Ascension of the Lord, actually befell His enemies, I mean mental enemies. For just as, liberating the Israelites from Egypt, he rained hail and fire, so, liberating all nations from working for demons, he rained hail and coals of fire. And these were the punitive forces with which he overthrew the mental Egyptians: Tv. St. Rev., Part IV, Art. 89. Art. 46. The sons of need have vowed and are lame from their paths. Calling themselves my sons, they made themselves sons of strangers, they became weak and strayed from the path of righteousness.
Interpretation of special sayings in the Church Psalter, set out according to the guidance of the holy fathers of the Church.
