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The Creative 9 image 'The same NINE (undivided) is used' (in all the places of this hexagram), but the attribute of heaven (thereby denoted) should not (always) take the foremost place.
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2011/01/06 03:24
《周易正義》0111-乾用九 象辭

●[用九,天德不可為首也。]

[疏]正義曰:

此一節釋經之「用九」之《象》辭。

經稱「用九」,故《象》更疊云「用九」。

云「天德不可為首」者,此夫子釋辭也。九是天之德也,天德剛健,當以柔和接待於下,不可更懷尊剛為物之首,故云「天德不可為首也」。

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