{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 112/1909-06-24/p019-p030","extent":"range","passage_number":19,"through":30,"paragraph_count":12,"first_locus":"GA 112/1909-06-24/p019","last_locus":"GA 112/1909-06-24/p030","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"1. The Johannine Christians","date":"1909-06-24","location":null,"alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:embedding","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Samuel and Loni Lockwood","identified_edition":"AP1948","book_title":"The Gospel of St. John","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA112/English/AP1948/19090624p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Looking at the various things around us—things we see with our eyes, touch with our hands—we observe them coming into being and perishing. We see the flower, the whole annual plant life, come up and then wither; and though there are such things in the world as rocks and mountains that seem to defy the centuries we need only consider the proverb, \"a steady drip hollows out the rock\" to realize that the human soul senses the laws of transience as governing even the majestic boulders and mountains. And we know that there comes into being and perishes even what is built of the elements: not only what we call our corporeality, but what we know as our perishable ego is engendered and then passes. 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Everyone can call a table a table or a clock a clock; but never in the world could the name “I” fall on our ear if it were intended to denote ourself, for “I” must be spoken within us: to everyone else we are “you.” This in itself shows us that our ego-being is distinct from all else that is in or around us.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":118,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/112/1909-06-24/p022","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-06-24","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-24/p012","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-24/p012"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-24/p013","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-24/p013"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-24/p014","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-24/p014"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-24/p015","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-24/p015"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 112/1909-06-24/p013","GA 112/1909-06-24/p014"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":589,"en_words":538,"ratio":0.91,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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He reasoned as follows: The genealogy of Jesus of Nazareth goes back to Adam and to God himself. What today is mankind, what now inhabits a physical human body, once descended from divine heights: it was born of the spirit, it was once with God. Adam was he who had been sent down out of spiritual heights into matter, and in this sense he is the son of God. So there was at one time a divine-spiritual realm—thus the argument would continue—that condensed, as it were, into an ephemeral, tellurian realm: Adam came into being. Adam was an earthly image of the Son of God, and from him are descended the human beings that dwell in a physical body. And in a special way there lived in Jesus of Nazareth not only what exists in every man and all that pertains to it, but something the essence of which can be found only when one is aware that the true being of man derives from the divine. In Jesus of Nazareth something of this divine descent is still apparent. For this reason the writer of the Luke Gospel feels constrained to say, Behold Him Who was baptized by John! He bears special marks of the divine out of which Adam was originally born. This can come to life again in Him. Just as the God descended into matter and disappeared as such from the human race, so He reappears. In Jesus of Nazareth mankind could be reborn in its innermost divine principle. 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It is the same man I knew five years ago in certain circumstances, and ten years ago in others.—And if he had wanted to portray the identity of this man—if he had wanted to show that this man had a quite special start, even at birth—he would trace back the forty years with his physical existence in mind and describe the latter as far as pertinent, in the spirit of one who sees matters from the spiritual-scientific viewpoint. But in his fortieth year a higher ego was born in this man, and henceforth this higher ego irradiates all the circumstances of his life. He is a new man. That which existed previously is of no further importance. What is now important is to understand, above all things, how the higher ego grows from year to year and develops further. 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Dadurch ist doch unbedingt ausgedrückt, was man mit schlichten Worten in der folgenden Art sagen kann: Wenn der Christus Jesus von denen, die seine Größe ahnen, angesehen wird als die wichtigste Erscheinung in der Menschheitsentwickelung der Erde, dann muß dieser Christus Jesus irgendwie zusammenhängen mit dem Wesentlichsten und Heiligsten im Menschen selbst. Es muß also innerhalb des Menschen selber etwas geben, was man unmittelbar auf das Christus-Ereignis beziehen kann. Könnten wir denn nicht die Frage aufwerfen: Wenn der Christus Jesus wirklich entsprechend den Evangelien das wichtigste Ereignis der Menschheitsentwickelung ist, muß sich dann nicht überall, in jeder von all den Seelen der Menschen etwas finden, was Bezug hat zu dem Christus Jesus?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":162,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-24/p011"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-24/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Das ist es auch, was insbesondere den Johannes-Christen der Rosenkreuzer-Gesellschaften das Wichtigste und Wesentlichste war: daß sich in jeder Menschenseele etwas findet, was unmittelbar Bezug hat, was ein Verhältnis hat zu dem, was in Palästina durch den Christus Jesus geschehen ist. Und wenn der Christus Jesus für die Menschheit das größte Ereignis genannt werden kann, dann muß. auch in der Menschenseele das, was dem Christus-Ereignis entspricht, das Größte und Bedeutungsvollste sein. Was kann das sein? Darauf haben sich die Schüler der Rosenkreuzer geantwortet: Für jede Menschenseele gibt es etwas, was man bezeichnet mit den Worten «Erweckung» oder «Wiedergeburt» oder «Initiation ». Wir wollen sehen, was mit diesen Worten gemeint ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":110,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-24/p012"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-24/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Wenn wir den Blick richten auf die verschiedenen Dinge um uns herum, die unsere Augen sehen, die unsere Hände greifen, dann sehen wir, wie diese Dinge entstehen und vergehen. Wir sehen, wie die Blume entsteht und vergeht, wie die ganze Vegetation des Jahres heraufkommt und wieder hinuntergeht. Und wenn es auch Dinge gibt in der Welt, wie die Berge und Felsen, die den Jahrhunderten zu trotzen scheinen, schon in dem Sprichwort «Steter Tropfen höhlt den Stein» drückt es sich aus, daß die Menschenseele eine Ahnung davon hat, daß selbst die majestätischen Felsen und Berge den Gesetzen der Vergänglichkeit unterworfen sind. Und der Mensch weiß: Es entsteht und vergeht das, was selbst auferbaut ist aus den Elementen; es entsteht und vergeht das, was der Mensch nicht nur seine Leiblichkeit nennt, sondern was er nennt sein «vergängliches Ich». Aber diejenigen, welche da wissen, wie man in eine geistige Welt gelangen kann, die wissen auch, daß der Mensch zwar nicht durch Augen und Ohren und durch die anderen Sinne hineindringt in diese geistige Welt, daß er aber dorthin gelangen kann durch den Weg der Erweckung, der Wiedergeburt, der Initiation. Und was wird wiedergeboren?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":190,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-24/p013"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-24/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Der Mensch, wenn er in sein Inneres blickt, kommt zuletzt dazu, zu sagen: Was mir in meinem Innern entgegentritt, das ist das, wozu ich «Ich » sage. Dieses Ich unterscheidet sich schon durch den Namen von allen Dingen der Außenwelt. Zu einem jeden Ding der Außenwelt kann man den Namen von außen hinzufügen: zu dem Tisch kann jeder «Tisch », zu der Uhr jeder «Uhr» sagen. Niemals aber kann der Name «Ich » an unser Ohr klingen, wenn er uns selbst bedeuten soll; denn das «Ich» muß im Innern ausgesprochen werden. Für jeden anderen sind wir ein «Du». Dadurch schon findet der Mensch, wie sich diese Ich-Wesenheit unterscheidet von dem, was sonst in ihm und um ihn herum ist. Aber nun kommt das hinzu, was die Geistesforscher aller Zeiten immer wieder und wieder aus ihren eigenen Erlebnissen für die Menschheit betont haben: daß innerhalb dieses Ich ein anderes, ein höheres Ich geboren wird, geboren wie das Kind aus der Mutter.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":160,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-24/p014"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-24/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Wenn der Mensch uns in seinem Leben entgegentritt, können wir sagen: Wir sehen ihn zuerst als Kind, wie er ungeschickt in bezug auf die äußere Umgebung die Dinge anschaut, wie er dann nach und nach lernt, die Dinge zu begreifen, nach und nach verständig wird und an Intellekt und Willen wächst; wir sehen, wie der Mensch zunimmt an Kraft und Energie. Aber es gibt Menschen, die nicht nur in dieser Weise zunehmen, sondern es hat auch immer solche Menschen gegeben, die noch zu einer höheren Entwickelung gelangen über der gewöhnlichen, die dazu kommen, daß sie sozusagen ein zweites Ich finden, das zu dem ersten Ich vermag «Du» zu sagen, wie das Ich selbst zur Außenwelt und zu seinem Leibe «Du » sagt, das gewissermaßen hinunterschaut auf dieses erste Ich.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":129,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-24/p015"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-24/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"So steht es als ein Ideal vor der Menschenseele, und so tritt es als eine Wirklichkeit ein für diejenigen, welche die Anweisungen der Geistesforscher befolgen und sich sagen: Das Ich, von dem ich bisher wußte, nimmt teil an der ganzen Außenwelt, es ist mit der Außenwelt vergänglich. Aber in mir schlummert ein zweites Ich, dessen sich die Menschen nicht bewußt sind, aber sich bewußt werden können, das ebenso verbunden ist mit dem Unvergänglichen, wie das erste Ich mit dem Vergänglichen und Zeitlichen verbunden ist. Und mit der Wiedergeburt kann dies höhere Ich ebenso hineinschauen in eine geistige Welt, wie das niedere Ich durch die Sinne - Augen, Ohren und so weiter - in die sinnliche Welt schauen kann. Was man so Erweckung, Wiedergeburt, Initiation nennt, das ist das größte Ereignis der menschlichen Seele auch nach der Ansicht derjenigen, die sich Bekenner des Rosenkreuzes nannten. Sie wußten, daß mit diesem Ereignis der Wiedergeburt des höheren Ich, das auf das niedere Ich herabschauen kann, wie der Mensch auf die äußeren Gestalten schaut, das Ereignis des Christus Jesus zusammenhängen muß. Das heißt, wie für den einzelnen Menschen innerhalb seiner Entwickelung eine Wiedergeburt stattfinden kann, so ist für die ganze Menschheit eine Wiedergeburt eingetreten mit dem Christus Jesus. Was für den einzelnen Menschen ein inneres, wie man sagt, mystisch-geistiges Ereignis ist, was er als die Geburt seines höheren Ich erleben kann, das ist in der Außenwelt, in der Geschichte, mit dem Ereignis von Palästina durch den Christus Jesus für die ganze Menschheit eingetreten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":249,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-24/p016"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-24/p017","passage_number":17,"text":"Wie stellte sich das zum Beispiel einem Menschen dar wie dem, der das Evangelium des Lukas geschrieben hat? Er konnte sich sagen: Der Stammbaum des Jesus von Nazareth führt hinauf bis zu Adam und Gott selber. Was heute Menschheit ist, was heute im physischen Menschenleibe wohnt, das stieg einst herunter aus göttlich-geistigen Höhen, das ist aus dem Geiste geboren, das war einmal bei Gott. Adam war derjenige, der aus den geistigen Höhen in die Materie heruntergeschickt worden ist; er ist in diesem Sinne der Sohn des Gottes. Es war also einst ein göttlich-geistiges Reich, sagte sich der Schreiber des Lukas-Evangeliums; das verdichtete sich gleichsam zu dem vergänglichen irdischen Reich: Adam entstand. Adam war ein irdisches Abbild des Sohnes des Gottes, und von Adam stammen die Menschen ab, die im physischen Leibe sind. Und in diesem Jesus von Nazareth lebte auf eine besondere Weise nicht nur das, was in jedem Menschen lebt, und was sonst in dem Menschen ist, sondern es lebte in ihm etwas, was man nur finden kann seiner Wesenheit nach, wenn man sich bewußt wird, daß das Wesentliche im Menschen vom Göttlichen abstammt. In dem Jesus von Nazareth ist noch etwas ersichtlich von dieser göttlichen Abstammung. Der Schreiber des Lukas-Evangeliums findet sich daher genötigt zu sagen: Seht euch an den, der durch den Johannes getauft worden ist. Er hat besondere Kennzeichen an sich für das Göttliche, aus dem ursprünglich der Adam abstammt. Das kann sich in ihm erneuern. Wie der Gott herabgestiegen ist in die Materie und als Gott verschwunden ist im Menschengeschlecht, so erscheint er wieder. Die Menschheit konnte in ihrem Innersten, Göttlichen wiedergeboren werden in dem Jesus von Nazareth. — Es wollte der Schreiber des Lukas-Evangeliums sagen: Wenn wir den Stammbaum des Jesus von Nazareth hinaufverfolgen bis zu seinem Ursprung, so finden wir den göttlichen Ursprung und die Eigenschaften des Gottes-Sohnes in ihm in einer erneuerten Weise wieder und mehr, als es in der bisherigen Menschheit sein konnte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":322,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-24/p017"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-24/p018","passage_number":18,"text":"Und der Schreiber des Johannes-Evangeliums betonte nur noch schärfer, daß in dem Menschen etwas Göttliches lebt, und daß dieses Göttliche in seiner großartigsten Gestalt erschien als der Gott und der Logos selber. Der Gott, der gleichsam in die Materie hinein begraben wurde, wird wiedergeboren als Gott in dem Jesus von Nazareth, das wollten diejenigen sagen, die also ihre Evangelien einleiteten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":60,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-24/p018"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-24/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Und jene, welche die Weisheit dieser Evangelien fortsetzen wollten, wie sagten sie? Wie sagten die Johannes-Christen? Also sagten sie: Im einzelnen Menschen gibt es ein großes, gewaltiges Ereignis, das man nennen kann die Wiedergeburt des höheren Ich. Wie das Kind aus der Mutter geboren wird, so wird das göttliche Ich geboren aus dem Menschen. Die Initiation, die Erweckung ist möglich, und wenn sie einmal eingetreten ist — so sagten die, welche etwas davon verstanden -, dann wird etwas anderes wichtig als das, was vorher wichtig war. Was da wichtig wird, das wollen wir uns einmal durch einen Vergleich näherbringen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":99,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-24/p019"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-24/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Denken wir, wir haben einen Menschen vor uns, der siebzig Jahre geworden ist, aber einen erweckten Menschen, der sein höheres Ich gewonnen hat. Und denken wir uns, es wäre im vierzigsten Jahre gewesen, daß er die Wiedergeburt, die Erweckung seines höheren Ich, erlebt hat. Wäre damals jemand an ihn herangetreten und hätte sein Leben beschreiben wollen, so hätte er sich sagen können: Ich habe hier einen Menschen vor mir, der sein höheres Ich eben geboren hat. Das ist derselbe, den ich vor fünf Jahren in dieser Lage, und in jener Lage vor zehn Jahren gekannt habe. - Und wenn er uns hätte darstellen wollen die Identität dieses Menschen, wenn er uns hätte zeigen wollen, daß dieser Mensch einen ganz besonderen Ausgangspunkt schon bei seiner Geburt hatte, dann würde er die Jahre von vierzig zurück in bezug auf sein physisches Dasein verfolgen, und dieses physische Dasein, so wie es in Betracht kommt, beschreiben im Sinne dessen, der vom geisteswissenschaftlichen Standpunkt aus spricht. Mit dem vierzigsten Jahre ist aber in diesem Menschen ein höheres Ich geboren. Von jetzt ab überstrahlt das höhere Ich die ganzen Lebensverhältnisse. Jetzt ist das ein neuer Mensch. Jetzt ist uns nicht mehr wichtig, was vorher da war, jetzt handelt es sich darum, daß wir vor allem erkennen, wie das höhere Ich von Jahr zu Jahr zunimmt und sich weiterentwickelt. Wenn dann dieser Mensch siebzig Jahre alt geworden ist, dann würden wir uns erkundigen, welchen Weg vom vierzigsten bis zum siebzigsten Jahre das höhere Ich durchgemacht hat. Und wichtig würde für uns sein, daß es das echt geistige Ich ist, das er uns in seinem siebzigsten Jahre darbietet, wenn wir uns zu dem bekennen, was damals vor dreißig Jahren in der Seele dieses Menschen geboren worden ist. - So machten es die Evangelienschreiber, und so machten es im Zusammenhange damit die Johannes-Christen des Rosenkreuzertums mit dem Wesen, das wir den Christus Jesus nennen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":315,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-24/p020"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-24/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"Die Evangelienschreiber hatten sich die Aufgabe gestellt, zunächst zu zeigen, daß der Christus Jesus seinen Ursprung hat in dem Urgeiste der Welt, in dem Gott selber. Der Gott, der in der ganzen Menschheit verborgen gelebt hat, tritt in dem Christus Jesus besonders hervor. Das ist derselbe Gott, von dem das Johannes-Evangelium sagt, daß er im Urbeginn, von Anfang an da war. Dieses Interesse: zu zeigen, daß eben dieser Gott in dem Jesus von Nazareth war, das hatten die Evangelienschreiber. Diejenigen aber, welche bis in unsere Zeit hinein die urewige Weisheit fortzusetzen hatten, sie hatten jetzt das Interesse, zu zeigen, wie das höhere Ich der Menschen, wie der göttliche Geist der Menschheit, der durch das Ereignis von Palästina in dem Jesus von Nazareth geboren wurde, wie er derselbe geblieben und bewahrt worden ist bei all denen, die das rechte Verständnis dafür gehabt haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":142,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-24/p021"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-24/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Wie wir bei dem von uns zum Vergleich gestellten Menschen beschrieben haben, daß er im vierzigsten Jahre sein höheres Ich geboren hat, so haben die Evangelienschreiber den Gott im Menschen beschrieben bis zu dem Ereignis in Palästina: wie sich der Gott entwickelt hat, wie er wiedergeboren ist und so weiter. Diejenigen aber, die zu zeigen hatten, daß sie die Fortsetzer sind der Evangelienschreiber, sie mußten darauf hinweisen, daß das die Zeit ist der Wiedergeburt des höheren Ich, wo man es nur zu tun hat mit dem geistigen Teil, der jetzt alles andere überstrahlt. Die, welche sich Johannes-Christen nannten und das Rosenkreuz zu ihrem Symbolum hatten, die sagten: Gerade das, was für die Menschheit wiedergeboren ist als das Geheimnis von dieser Menschheit höherem Ich, das ist bewahrt worden. Das ist bewahrt worden von jener engeren Gemeinschaft, die von dem Rosenkreuzertum ihren Ausgang genommen hat. Sinnbildlich ist diese Kontinuität angedeutet: Jene heilige Schale, aus welcher der Christus Jesus gegessen und getrunken hat mit seinen Jüngern, die man den «Heiligen Gral» nennt und in der das Blut, das aus der Wunde floß, aufgefangen wurde durch Joseph von Arimathia, sie ist, wie erzählt wird, durch Engel nach Europa gebracht worden. Ihr wurde ein Tempel gebaut, und die Rosenkreuzer wurden die Bewahrer dessen, was da war in dem Gefäße, das heißt dessen, was das Wesen des wiedergeborenen Gottes ausmachte. Das Mysterium von dem wiedergeborenen Gotte waltete in der Menschheit: das ist das Grals-Mysterium.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":238,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-24/p022"},{"locus":"GA 112/1909-06-24/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Das ist das Mysterium, das wie ein neues Evangelium hingestellt wird und von dem gesagt wird: Wir sehen hinauf zu einem solchen Weisen, wie dem Schreiber des Johannes-Evangeliums, der da sagen konnte: Im Urbeginne war das Wort, und das Wort war bei Gott, und ein Gott war das Wort. Das, was im Urbeginne bei Gott war, das ist wiedergeboren worden bei dem, den wir haben leiden und sterben sehen auf Golgatha, und der auferstanden ist. - Diese Kontinuität des göttlichen Prinzips durch alle Zeiten hindurch, und die Wiedergeburt dieses göttlichen Prinzips, das wollte der Schreiber des Johannes-Evangeliums darstellen. Aber alle, die solches darstellen wollten, die wußten: Das, was von Anfang an war, ist erhalten geblieben. Im Anfange war das Mysterium vom höheren Menschen-Ich; im Gral war es aufbewahrt; mit dem Gral blieb es verbunden, und im Gral lebt das Ich, das verbunden ist mit dem Ewigen und Unsterblichen wie das niedere Ich mit dem Vergänglichen und Sterblichen. Und wer das Geheimnis des Heiligen Gral kennt, der weiß, daß aus dem Holz des Kreuzes hervorgeht das lebendig sprießende Leben, das unsterbliche Ich, das symbolisiert ist durch die Rosen am schwarzen Kreuzesholz. So ist das Geheimnis des Rosenkreuzes etwas, was wie eine Fortsetzung des Johannes-Evangeliums sich ausnehmen kann. Und wir können geradezu in bezug auf das Johannes-Evangelium und das, was es fortsetzt, die folgenden Worte sagen:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":224,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/112/1909-06-24/p023"}],"beads":[{"from":[19],"to":[11],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[20,21,22,23],"to":[12,13,14,15],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[24,25],"to":[16],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[26],"to":[17],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[27],"to":[18],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[28,29],"to":[19,20],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[30,31,32,33,34,35],"to":[21,22,23],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}