Proglas

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Proglas is a preface written in verse ( "Vorgesang" ) to the translation of the Gospels into Old Church Slavonic from the 9th century. The author is St. Cyril . It is the oldest surviving document in the Old Church Slavonic language. The poem is 110 verses long, each verse consists of 12 syllables , the 111th verse is Amen .

Manuscripts

Proglas was discovered in 1858 by AF Hilferding in a Serbian manuscript from the 14th century. It is also found in two Old Slavonic translations of the Gospels from the 13th and 14th centuries and in a Russian manuscript from the 16th century.

Meaning and content

The poem is on a very high level both in terms of form and content. It celebrates the translation of the Word of God into a language that people understand and praises the national language as a necessary means of spreading education and piety.

"In no literature from this time and for a long time afterwards do we find a comparable appeal to the people to appreciate the books in their own language."

Examples

INTRODUCTION (CHANTING) TO THE HOLY GOSPEL I AM.
As the prophets promised,
Christ comes to gather the nations together,
for he is the light of all the world.

It happened in our seventh millennium.
They said: The blind will see,
the deaf will hear the word of God.
Therefore it is necessary to get to know God.
So now you Slavs hear these words. "

- Verses 1-9

" St. Paul taught:
If I join in prayer before God,
would I rather speak five words with my mind ,
so I might teach others also ,
than ten thousand incomprehensible words. "

- Verses 50 - 55, (see also 1. Cor. Chapter 14 verse 19)

The peoples stand there naked (defenseless)
when they have no books in their own language ,
without these weapons
they cannot fight the adversary of human souls
and are at the mercy of eternal ruin. "

- Verses 80 - 85 (cf. also Hebr. Chap. 4, verse 12)

Note: The verses are freely translated into German from the Czech text in Vašica

reception

Proglas was set to music several times by Czech composers in the 20th century. B. in full length by Zdeněk Pololáník (1980) and in parts by Jiří Pavlica.

Radio Proglas is a private Christian broadcaster in the Czech Republic, founded in 1995.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Dvornik, Francis : Byzantine Mission among the Slavs, SS. Constantine-Cyril and Methodius , Rutgers University Press 1970, SBN: 8135-0613-1, p. 118 u. 369 (English). Dvornik quotes R. Nachtigal: Re Konstrukcija treh starocerkvenoslov izvirnih pesnilev (Reconstruction of Three Old Church Slavonic Original Poems), Razprave Akademije znalosti i umetnosti v Ljubljane , Ljubljana 1943, pp. 43-156, esp. p. 89 ff.
  2. a b c Vašica, Josef: Literární památky epochy velkomoravské 863 - 885 . Vyšehrad, Praha 1996, ISBN 80-7021-169-5 , p. 37-38, 140-143 (Czech, 340 pp.).
  3. Šmatlák, Stanislav, a col. Slovensko. 4 Kultura, 1st part. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Obzor, 1979, 992 pp. 33, 137 (Czech).
  4. Based on the traditional creation date 5508 BC Chr. The 7th millennium the world in 492 began n. Chr.
  5. Večerka, Radoslav: Staroslovenska etapa českého písemnictví . Nakladatelství Lidové Noviny, Praha 2010, ISBN 978-80-7422-044-9 , p. 127 (Czech, 176 pp.).
  6. ^ Radio Proglas . Retrieved January 21, 2017

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