Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, "Panégyrique de l'apotre saint Paul" (30 June 1657), Bossuet: oraisons funèbres panégyriques, ed. L’Abbé Bernard Velat, Biblioteque de la Pleiade 33 (Paris: Librairie Gallimard, 1950), 387 (385-407), translation mine. "I will be restricting myself [(me réduis)] to making you see the weaknesses of this great apostle" (386).
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
"the infirmities of that great apostle"
St. Paul "knew that if this great world, and what it encloses in its vast bosom, is the work of [God's] power, he made a new world, a world redeemed by his blood and regenerated by his death, that is to say, his holy Church, which is the work of his weakness."
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