O holy simplicity!
From Latin: O sancta simplicitas! (o sancta simplicitas).
Legend attributes these words to Jan Hus (1371 - 1415), the leader of the Czech national liberation movement. Sentenced by a church council as a heretic to be burned, he, as is commonly believed, uttered these words, already standing at the stake, when he saw how a certain old woman, in a fit of religious zeal, threw the brushwood she had brought into the fire.
However, historians who studied eyewitness accounts of the death of Jan Hus did not find any confirmation of this legend.
In fact, this expression is much older. It was first heard back in the 4th century: according to the church writer Turanius Rufinus (c. 345-410) in his continuation of Eusebius’ History of the Church, the words “holy simplicity” were uttered by one of the theologians on First Council of Nicaea in 325

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O holy simplicity!

This expression is attributed to the leader of the Czech national movement, Jan Hus (1369-1415). Sentenced by a church council, as a heretic, to be burned, he allegedly uttered these words at the stake when he saw that some old woman (according to another version - a peasant) in ingenuous religious zeal threw the brushwood she brought into the fire of the fire. However, Hus's biographers, based on eyewitness accounts of his death, deny the fact that he uttered this phrase. The ecclesiastical writer Turanius Rufinus (c. 345-410), in his continuation of Eusebius' History of the Church, reports that the expression "holy simplicity" was uttered at the First Council of Nicaea (325) by one of the theologians. This expression is often used in Latin: "O sancta simplicitas!" (Buchmann. Geflugelte Worte).

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January 3, 2018

The expression "holy simplicity" arose a long time ago under tragic circumstances. Its authorship is attributed to Jan Hus.

Who is Jan Hus?

Jan Hus was a preacher and inspirer of the Czech Reformation.

Born in 1371 into a family of peasants, he graduated from the university in Prague, later became a rector there, and from 1402 he was a priest and preacher in the Bethlehem chapel in the Czech capital.

Constantly made speeches, denounced the Catholic priesthood in acquisitiveness, trade in positions, indulgences.

His performances were very popular and attracted many people. The Catholic Church Council anathematized him and sent him to the stake. Jan Hus was 44 years old by that time.

When they were going to burn Jan Hus at the stake, an old woman came up with a bundle of brushwood, deciding to do a good deed, she put her own firewood into the fire.

Jan Hus, waiting for the flames to flare up, watched the woman and exclaimed, "Oh, holy simplicity!"

But researchers recorded the utterance of this phrase at a Christian cathedral as early as the 4th century. If Gus uttered it at the stake, he could have heard the phrase before, but thanks to him it became winged.

The Negative Meaning of "Holy Simplicity"

Often people, having good intentions, do things that cause more harm than help. This happens because of the limited views, short-sightedness. Here the expression "holy simplicity" is used in a negative sense. About simple-hearted and naive people who cannot cheat when it seems necessary, they can “light a fire” with the words of a harsh truth told at the wrong time.

Such situations often arise during the rescue of animals, when people who do not know their characteristics and behavior in nature undertake to help them, trying to feed them with sweets in the zoo.

Phraseologism "holy simplicity" can be used not only in an ironic, but also in a positive sense.

The simplicity of a holy man

“Holy simplicity” - this is what they say about a person who is pure, trusting, living with an open heart, sincerely believing in the kindness of the people around him, not looking for a dirty trick in their actions.

Saint Paul was distinguished by modesty, did not imagine anything about himself, followed Jesus in everything. When Saint Anthony was asked to cast out the demon, he refused, but sent those who asked to Paul. Saint Anthony said that only Paul, with his holy simplicity, is able to resist the evil spirit. And when the sick man was brought to St. Paul, the spirit cried out: “The simplicity of Paul casts me out!” - and left.

When using the expression "holy simplicity", one must distinguish when it is used to denote human stupidity and impudence, and when it is used to emphasize modesty and humility before God.

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Coffee from a fairy tale: in Shanghai they serve a drink under a small sweet "cloud"

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5 candor

3) purity of language, clarity, precision

6 dumtaxat

1) how much, because

2) only, no more (potestatem habere d. annuam C)

non d..., sed L etc. - not only but

3) at least at least

7 gracilitas

8 rusticitas

9 siccitas

10 simplicitas

11 subtilitas

4) subtlety, elegance (sententiarum C; columnae Vtr)

5) sophistication, wit (sermonis, disputandi C)

6) simplicity, clarity, precision (scriptoris, orationis C)

12 tenuitas

13 simplicitas

simplicitas simplicitas, atis f simplicity

14 Divide and impera

Divide and rule.

Latin formulation of the principle of imperialist policy, which arose already in modern times. In the form divide ut regnes, it is attributed to the French king Louis XI (Prosper Mérimée, "Chronicle of the reign of Charles IX". Preface.) or the Italian politician Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527).

The Roman divide et itnpera was the basic rule by which Great Britain managed to keep the Indian Empire in her possession for about a hundred and fifty years. (K. Marx, Rebellion in the Indian Army.)

No wonder our young people were driven into the Berlin guards. - This was done in order to set the provinces against each other, in order to use in the interests of the patriarchal-feudal despotism the national enmity between Germans and Slavs, as well as the local hatred of each tiny German province for all the middle provinces. "Divide et impera"! (F. Engels, ZeitungsHalle.)

There is no place for humility in politics, but only boundless simplicity (both holy and sly simplicity) can mistake the primordial police technique for humility: divide et impera, divide and rule, yield the unimportant in order to preserve the essential, give with the left hand and take away with the right. (V. I. Lenin, Zemstvo Persecutors and Annibals of Liberalism.)

Divide et impera - there is a rule of the state, not only machiavellian (I accept this word in its national meaning). (A. S. Pushkin. tablettalk.)

I don't like your policy. In Machiavelli, you are no good with your divide... I can't agree to the fact that, following the example of Russian censorship, it is allowed to scold titular advisers and not to scold generals. You just don't want to hook Marx, so as not to spoil your attitude - good, - well, then leave Tessa and the company. (A. I. Herzen - M. A. Bakunin, 28. (16.) X 1869.)

When the grandfather of Ivan the Terrible, Ivan Vasilyevich III, put an end to specific system, independent princes, having lost their squads and possessions, became the ranks of Moscow courtiers, already corrupted and enslaved. Regional interests turned into court interests, characters were crushed, and the time of localism began, an ugly phenomenon, a mixture of Western and tribal hierarchies with some kind of bureaucracy and generals. At first, this confusion of concepts and inconsistency of provisions contributed greatly to the strengthening of the supreme power, which used them, guided by the rule: divide et impera. (A. K. Tolstoy, The project of staging the tragedy "The Death of Ivan the Terrible".)

The police state is much more realistic than the latest humanists: it frankly put the question of subjugation and domination in the foreground, and since domination requires, first of all, division (that is, setting one part of the population against another, one class against another - divide et impera), then all attempts at binding, even if they come from some organs of the police state, inevitably fail. (A. A. Blok, The collapse of humanism.)

We know examples when a state, stubbornly refusing to conclude a non-aggression pact with one neighbor, wants to impose it on another neighbor with the same persistence, acting on the principle of "divide et impera" (divide and rule). (M. M. Litvinov, Conversation with the French journalist Sauerwein.)

15 O sancta simplicitas!

Oh, holy simplicity!

The phrase is attributed to the Czech reformer, the hero of the national liberation movement Jan Hus. According to legend, Gus, who was being burned at the stake, uttered these words when some old woman, out of pious motives, threw an armful of brushwood into the fire.

And Engels, with his characteristic cheerful irony, welcomes last steps world capitalism: fortunately, - he says, - there are still enough unplowed steppes left for things to continue in the same way. And good Mr. N-he [ N. F. Danielson (1852-1925) - economist, public figure of the populist direction. - auth. ] a propos de bottes [ Neither to the village, nor to the city; out of place (fr.) - auth. ] sighs about the old "peasant farmer", about "hallowed for centuries" ... the stagnation of our agriculture and all forms of agricultural bondage, which could not be shaken "neither specific disorder, nor Tatarism", and which has now begun - oh, horror! - to shake this monstrous capitalism in the most decisive way! O sancta simplicitas! (VI Lenin, Development of capitalism in Russia.)

Levin did not understand why it was necessary for a hostile party to ask to run for the leader they wanted to run for. - Oh, sancta sitnplicitas! said Stepan Arkadyevich, briefly and clearly explaining to Levin what the matter was. (L. N. Tolstoy, Anna Karenina.)

One of the cherished formulas of that time was "Holy simplicity". There was something indisputable in her, and at the mention of her, one could only bow. But they used it indiscriminately and often mixed it with vulgarity and ignorance. This was already a delusion that threatened with consequences of a very dubious nature. The peasantry suffocated under the yoke of slavery, but on the other hand they were sancta simplicitas; the bureaucracy was mired in extortion, but even this was a kind of sancta simplicitas; ignorance, darkness, cruelty, arbitrariness dominated everywhere, but they also represented one of the forms of sancta simplicitas. It was hard to breathe amidst these various manifestations of simplicity, but there was no reason to be held accountable. ()

You claimed in response to that sermon that I knew who my anonymous advocate was. But it's not true! I'm not accusing you of lying - you probably just made a mistake. I still don't know the name of this person. - Bowing his head to one side, like a learned blackbird, the Gadfly looked at the cardinal, then leaned back in his chair and laughed loudly: O s-sancta simplicitas! Such innocence fits the Arcadian shepherdess! Didn't you guess? (Ethel Lilian Voynich, Gadfly.)

16 Sancta simplicitas

Holy simplicity.

The right to work, and not the sacred obligation of labor, the obligation to earn one's bread by the sweat of one's brow (so that's what was hidden behind the "pure idea of ​​labor"! The purely feudal idea of ​​the "duty" of the peasant to get bread ... for the performance of his duties? About this the "holy" obligation is said to the horse that has been beaten and crushed by it); then, the allocation of labor and reward for it, all this agitation about a just reward for labor, as if labor itself in its fruits does not create this reward ["What is this?" asks Mr. Struve, "sancta simplicitas or something else?" Worse. This is the apotheosis of the obedience of a laborer attached to the land, accustomed to working for others for almost nothing].... (V. I. Lenin, The economic content of populism.)

One of the cherished formulas of that time was "holy simplicity". There was something indisputable in her, and at the mention of her, one could only bow. But they used it indiscriminately and often mixed it with vulgarity and ignorance. This was a delusion that threatened with consequences of a very dubious nature. The peasantry suffocated under the yoke of slavery, but on the other hand they were sancta simplicitas; the bureaucracy was mired in extortion, but even this was a kind of sancta simplicitas; ignorance, darkness, cruelty, arbitrariness dominated everywhere, but they also represented one of the forms of sancta simplicitas. (M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, Poshekhonskaya antiquity.)

Get it, Ilka, a million! - And how to get a million? Ilka asked. - About naivety! Sancta simpletas! How to get a million? You can get it in various ways. Ways are hard and easy... (A.P. Chekhov, An Unnecessary Victory.)

The bonfire stifled Bruno's voice, uprooted Galileo's recantation, forced Descartes' cowardice. And that he fought against the book, does not prove this the fact that long after the executioner stopped raising the thinker to the stake, he continued to throw his weapon - the book. But the book won. And she won because for one enemy that the fire destroyed, she turned thousands into like-minded people. Before the book disappeared that sancta simplicitas, which kept the fire burning. (K. A. Timiryazev. From deed to word, from beast to man.)

Tolstoy not only overwhelmed me with his greatness, but also gave me aesthetic delight. last days own life. But everything together is so beautiful that it becomes scary to remain without him in this world ... The clergy, the synod, priests and elders convince me of this even more. What a servile role they play: “he” dies and thinks that he is alone (sancta simplicitas), while the priests, in order to get out of a stupid situation, fawn, look for backdoors in order to somehow reconcile and pour communion into the dying. (K. S. Stanislavsky - L. A. Sulerzhitsky, November 1910.)

17 simplicitas

1) clarity, simplic. legibus amica (§ 3 I. 3, 2. cf. § 7 I. 2, 23). 2) simplicity, stupidity (1. 1 pr. D. 4, 3. 1. 3 pr. D. 4. 6).

18 PARTICULARE (PARTICULAR)

Special, separate, private. Albert the Great considers “it is not true ... that in particular things simplicity is found in the following way: in every thing, the universal comes from a part of the communicated form, and the particular comes from a part of the substance of this form, which is incommunicable and fits only one, and since the beginning of communication is found in all perfect natural things otherwise than in the first reason, Boethius says that "every thing has something that is, and something that is this, and every thing is this and that." But we often said that the abstraction that takes place in the intellect is an abstraction from the particular, and not always from matter, according to the fact that "matter" is taken strictly as the subject of change and movement: thus, for example, "a log [in general]" is abstracted from "this log" and "intellect" from "this intellect". When I say "sky," I name the universal form, and when I say "this sky," I name the form that has become particular and fixed in this matter. The same abstraction exists in relation to everything, and the intellect cognizes itself in the same way as another intelligible, as established in the third [book] "On the Soul". From this it is clear that not only the material and mathematical are separable, but also everything divine or that something is separable in the sense in which the intellect separates the universal from the particular.. Concerning what has been said, that we know and know every thing, when we know causes and principles, which, however, seem to be particular, it seems that we should consider that that the principles of being, knowledge and knowledge of a thing are the same according to the truth of things, but the causes of knowledge and things existing in nature are not perceived in the same way, since they are perceived in a universal way cause knowledge, but appropriated by some thing and become private in it they are the beginning of things in nature ”(Albert the Great. On the intellect and the intelligible. T. 2. S. 49-80 present ed.).

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What does the expression "Holy simplicity" mean? and got the best answer

Answer from Mentalist[guru]
Phraseologism “Holy simplicity” meaning
This ironic expression is a literal translation from Latin.
And here is his story.
The Czech scientist-patriot Jan Hus, who fought for the liberation of his people, was raised to the stake by the Catholic church cathedral as a dangerous heretic, an enemy of the true church. Standing on the fire, the martyr noticed a decrepit old woman, who, quite sure that she was doing a good deed, brought her armful of brushwood for the fire. “Oh sanc-ta simplicitas [sancta simplicitas]”, exclaimed Gus with a bitter smile: he fought for the happiness of the old woman, she served his tormentors with the best intentions.
Holy simplicity - for the first time such a phrase, as the researchers found out, was uttered by one of the theologians back in the 4th century.
These words apply to all simple-minded, naive people who, in their ignorance, do not know what they are doing.

Answer from Loser[guru]
naive, unsophisticated person... easily deceived...

Answer from Sever50[guru]
and that means. According to legend, when Jan Hus, who was sentenced to be burned, was being surrounded with firewood at the place of execution, some old hag came up and put her bundle of brushwood there as well. Seeing this, Hus exclaimed: "Holy simplicity"! That's all. draw your own conclusions

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The expression "holy simplicity" arose a long time ago under tragic circumstances. Its authorship is attributed to Jan Hus.

Who is Jan Hus?

Jan Hus was a preacher and inspirer of the Czech Reformation.

Born in 1371 into a family of peasants, he graduated from the university in Prague, later became a rector there, and from 1402 he was a priest and preacher in the Bethlehem chapel in the Czech capital.

Constantly made speeches, denounced the Catholic priesthood in acquisitiveness, trade in positions, indulgences.

His performances were very popular and attracted many people. The Catholic Church Council anathematized him and sent him to the stake. Jan Hus was 44 years old by that time.

When they were going to burn Jan Hus at the stake, an old woman came up with a bundle of brushwood, deciding to do a good deed, she put her own firewood into the fire.

Jan Hus, waiting for the flames to flare up, watched the woman and exclaimed, "Oh, holy simplicity!"

But researchers recorded the utterance of this phrase at a Christian cathedral as early as the 4th century. If Gus uttered it at the stake, he could have heard the phrase before, but thanks to him it became winged.

The Negative Meaning of "Holy Simplicity"

Often people, having good intentions, do things that cause more harm than help. This happens because of the limited views, short-sightedness. Here the expression "holy simplicity" is used in a negative sense. About simple-hearted and naive people who cannot cheat when it seems necessary, they can “light a fire” with the words of a harsh truth told at the wrong time.

Such situations often arise during the rescue of animals, when people who do not know their characteristics and behavior in nature undertake to help them, trying to feed them with sweets in the zoo.

Phraseologism "holy simplicity" can be used not only in an ironic, but also in a positive sense.

The simplicity of a holy man

“Holy simplicity” - this is what they say about a person who is pure, trusting, living with an open heart, sincerely believing in the kindness of the people around him, not looking for a dirty trick in their actions.

Saint Paul was distinguished by modesty, did not imagine anything about himself, followed Jesus in everything. When Saint Anthony was asked to cast out the demon, he refused, but sent those who asked to Paul. Saint Anthony said that only Paul, with his holy simplicity, is able to resist the evil spirit. And when the sick man was brought to St. Paul, the spirit cried out: “The simplicity of Paul casts me out!” - and left.

When using the expression "holy simplicity", one must distinguish when it is used to denote human stupidity and impudence, and when it is used to emphasize modesty and humility before God.