If not in that old Gospel story? Here is the Greek text; I am moved to read 1220 Its sacred words, I feel the need Now to translate them true and clear Into the German tongue I hold so dear. [He opens a volume and prepares to write.] ‘In the beginning was the Word’: why, now I’m stuck already! I must change that; how? Is then ‘the word’ so great and high a thing? There is some other rendering, Which with the spirit’s guidance I must find. We read: ‘In the beginning was the Mind.’ Before you write this first phrase, think again; 1230 Good sense eludes the overhasty pen. Does
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