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齊景公待孔子，曰：若季氏則吾不能，以季、孟之閒待之。曰：吾老矣，不能用也。孔子行。Duke Jing of Qi, discussing how to treat Confucius, said: I cannot treat him as the Ji family is treated; I will treat him somewhere between the Ji and the Meng. Then he said: I am old; I cannot make use of him. Confucius left.
白Plain Chinese
齐景公说，对待孔子不能像鲁君对待季氏那样，只能给他介于季氏、孟氏之间的待遇，后来又说自己老了，不能任用他，孔子便离开了。
Draft plain-Chinese rendering following Zhu Xi; it will be checked when the chapter is covered.
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- Textual variants
- Base text reads 季孟之閒; the received text reads 季孟之间
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Close reading and checking
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Where the base edition differs from the common text; the original follows the base edition.
| Base edition | Common text | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 季孟之閒 | 季孟之间 | 底本PDF245閒，简体原文作闲；杨本18.3間简化间 |
家Other commentaries
Our base text is Zhu Xi's Collected Commentaries (above). Here are other commentaries side by side: for old commentaries, the first line of the sub-commentary with a link to the woodblock scan; for modern editions, one short quoted translation for comparison. The “compared with Zhu Xi” notes are written by Yikonglu, not quoted.
皇侃《论语义疏》Liang dynasty · 1750 Japanese woodblock edition · juan 九
“云齊景公待孔子者，孔子往齊，而景公初欲虛待孔子共為政化也。”……
Compared with Zhu Xi
| Commentary | Point | Relation | Confidence | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 杨伯峻《论语译注》 | same | settled | 景公欲以季孟间礼遇却不能用，孔离齐；朱强调去不系待遇轻重、言非面对孔说，杨译亦以打算叙述。 | |
| 钱穆《论语新解》 | same | fairly sure | 同以景公季孟间待孔子礼已隆而实言老不能用，孔子闻而行；均谓此非当面告孔子，应是景公告臣下之语。 |
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