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摘要
- Richard is not in the Bible. It is Old German — rih (“ruler, king”) and hart (“hard, firm, brave, hardy”) — a brave ruler.
- Three kings of England bore it. Richard I spent almost none of his reign in England and had to be ransomed; Richard II was deposed and died in captivity; Richard III lost his throne at Bosworth.
- Scripture’s instruction to a future king is not about conquest: write out a copy of the law, keep it, read it all his days, and do not consider himself better than his fellow Israelites (Deuteronomy 17:18-20).
- The prophets measure kings almost entirely by whether the poor were crushed. Jeremiah 22:16 asks, of a king who defended the poor and needy, “Is that not what it means to know me?”
- Firmness holds a line for others; hardness holds it for itself. Pharaoh’s hard heart worked repeatedly until it destroyed everything he was protecting.
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Sources: Behind the Name entry for Richard (Old German rih + hart, “brave ruler”; three kings of England, including Richard I the Lionheart); Scripture from the NIV via BibleGateway (Deuteronomy 17:18-20; Jeremiah 22:15-16; Exodus 7-14).
