Saturday, August 29, 2020

"Let us not grow weary in well doing"

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     'After lookout reports fire in the convoy, sir,' said a talker.      He was on his feet again, with hardly time to think of th...
Saturday, August 22, 2020

Sing without ceasing

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The Assembly of Angels (16th cent), Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. "the reason Isaiah [in the 8th century BC] and John [in the 1st cent...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

"Those who touch the dead body of Christ . . . touch the Word of life and hold in their hands the flesh of God, who is substantially and personally present in the dead cadaver of Christ."

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"all that befalls Jesus Christ is rightly attributed only to the person of the Word, who is the personal subject of all the human act...
Monday, August 17, 2020

"The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup"

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יְֽהוָ֗ה   מְנָת־חֶלְקִ֥י   וְכֹוסִ֑י      Ps 16:5a RSV.  So far as I can tell,  מְנָת , at least, is (with the exception of Jer 13:25) ov...
Sunday, August 16, 2020

The Bolshevik bourgeoisie

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     "In between their epic labors at the great construction site of socialism, residents of the House of Government 'were settling...
Saturday, August 15, 2020

"Revolution begins from an act of falsification"

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"the first concern of revolutionary movements on the left has been to capture the language, to change reality by changing the way we de...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Was Christ the cause of his own Resurrection?

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"in consequence of death[, which is the separation of soul from body and body from soul,] Christ's Godhead was not separated [(se...