Saturday, September 5, 2020

"not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education."

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ἔστι γὰρ ἀπαιδευσία τὸ μὴ γιγνώσκειν τίνων δεῖ ζητεῖν ἀπόδειξιν καὶ τίνων οὐ δεῖ·      Aristotle,  Metaphysics  IV.4 (1006a), trans. W. D. R...
Tuesday, September 1, 2020

I have hoped exceedingly

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Lord, listen to my cry;  all my trust is in your promise. |  Lord, listen to my cry;  all my trust is in your promise. |  Dawn finds me watc...
Sunday, August 30, 2020

Pseudo John Chrysostom? "Your resignation assumes God is dead. Do not be so certain. He who embraced death has defeated its power over us. He who went down to hell liberated every city held captive by hell's despair. Christ is risen! Open the doors of your comfortable despair, that the great storms of hope may blow life into us again."

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"In the year 387, an old preacher named John Chrysostom climbed into his pulpit in Antioch on Easter Sunday.  It had been a hard year f...
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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...