Saturday, December 10, 2011

"he had to wince under a promise of success given by that ignorant praise which misses every valid quality."

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George Eliot, Middlemarch, book 5, chap. 45 (Penguin edition ed. W. J. Harvey (1965), p. 490).

"If any assert that he has now put off his holy flesh, and that his Godhead is stripped of the body, and deny that he is now with his body and will come again with it, let him not see the glory of his coming."

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Εἴ τις ἀποτεθεῖσθαι νῦν τὴν (ἁγίαν) σάρκα λέγοι καὶ γυμνὴν εἶναι τὴν θεότητα τοῦ σώματος, ἀλλὰ μὴ μετὰ τοῦ προσλήμματος καὶ εἶναι καὶ ἥξειν,...

"the more simple a thing, the more relations attend it"

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"it is not against the notion of anything's simplicity that there be many relations between it and others; indeed the more simple a...
Monday, December 5, 2011

St. Spyridon (or Spiridon), the pagan philosopher, and the brick or tile or potsherd

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     I am interested in tracking this to source.  Unfortunately, it remains very much a work in progress, a work I am likely to get to only...

Seripando on the theory of the duplex iustitia

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"'Has the justified, who has performed good works in a state of grace and with the help of actual grace — both of which stem from t...
Sunday, December 4, 2011

"intellectual historians must use [period] dictionaries"

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"After praising Skinner, I must confess here my own early naïveté — it took me a good decade to recognize that, in my own field, many p...

Doctrinal fidelity with development: just possible

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"Doctrinal fidelity in the [Zoroastrian] cult of Mithra can thus be demonstrated over a period of at least 2,500 years.      "Clo...