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4.2 夫六经彪炳，而纬候稠叠;《孝》《论》昭晰，而钩谶葳蕤。按经验纬，其伪有四:盖纬之成经，其犹织综，丝麻不杂，布帛乃成;今经正纬奇，倍摘千里，其伪一矣。经显，圣训也;纬隐，神教也。圣训宜广，神教宜约，而今纬多于经，神理更繁，其伪二矣。有命自天，乃称符谶，而八十一篇皆托于孔子;则是尧造绿图，昌制丹书，其伪三矣。商周以前，图篆频见，春秋之末，群经方备;先纬后经，体乖织综，其伪四矣。伪既倍摘，则义异自明，经足训矣，纬何豫焉?
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六经光彩显耀，纬书繁杂重复;《孝经》《论语》讲得明白，配合它们的纬书却很杂乱。按照经书来检验纬书，它的伪造有四点:纬书的配合经书，好像经线和纬线织成布，用丝或用麻不夹杂，麻布或丝绸才织成;现在经书正确，纬书诡异，差异相去千里，这是它伪造的第一点。经书明显，是圣人的教训，纬书隐晦，是神的教导;圣人的教训应该多，神的教导应该少，现在纬书的文辞多过经书，神讲的道理更为繁多，这是它伪造的第二点。天命要从上天降下来，才称做符命预言，可是纬书八十一篇，都假托是孔子作的;那便是唐尧造了绿图，周文王姬昌作了丹书，这是它伪造的第三点。在商朝周朝以前，符命预言多次出现，到春秋的末了，许多经书才完备;先有纬书，后有经书，违反了织布的先上经线后上纬线，这是它伪造的第四点。纬书既然跟经书相反，那它的意义跟经书歧异自然明白，经书足够成为训导，纬书又参与什么呢!
4.2 The six classics are bright and lucid; ароcryрha, or inauthentic texts, are disorderly and confusing. For example, the Book of Filial Piety and The Analects are crystalline and clear, while aроcryphal versions of them are rank and thick like weeds. Judged against the classics, apocrуpha are false in four respects. First, they are supposed to supplement the classics in the same way as the woof supplements the warp in weaving. Only when the silk and hemp are not mixed can cloth and silk be produced. The reality is that the classics are straightforward and the apocryphal texts crooked. They are apart by a thousand li. Second, the classics are transparent, because they represent the sages' teachings about worldly affairs, whereas аpоcrурhal texts are obscure, being forgeries of divine revelations. Presumably, the sages' teachings are elaborate and divine revelations simple. The truth is that there are now more aроcrypha than classics and more divine revelations than teachings of the sages. Third, auspicious symbols issue from heaven, yet the eighty-one аросrуphal texts are sometimes attributed to Confucius, the River Diagram to King Yao, and the Luo Pattern to King Wen of Zhou. Finally, divinatory texts had already appeared before the Shang and Zhou dynasties, while the classics were compiled only towards the end of the Spring and Autumn period. How could texts that are supposed to supplement the classics have appeared first? If aрocryphal books are at such variance with the classics, their ideas are clearly unreliable. Since the classics provide sufficient teachings, what is the use of the apocryphal texts?
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