Friday, June 30, 2023

"having become humble, he then becomes invincible"

"étant devenu humble, il devient ensuite invincible."

     Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, "Panégyrique de l'apotre saint Pierre" (c. 29 June 1661), Bossuet:  oraisons funèbres panégyriques, ed. L’Abbé Bernard Velat, Biblioteque de la Pleiade 33 (Paris:  Librairie Gallimard, 1950), 568 (561-572), translation mine.  Background.

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