Saturday, March 12, 2022

"the sleeper, who endeavours to obtain sleep through the whole of life"

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"my discourse does not bring with it an exhortation to every description of men. For it is not directed to those who are occupied in so...

Sleeping through life

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"Do not . . . seek to see with mortal eyes [the First] as our account describes it, nor to see that it is in the way in which someone w...
Saturday, March 5, 2022

"This is the glory of man: to persevere and remain in the service of God."

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Orthodox Christianity       St. Irenaeus, Adv. haer. 4.13.14 (SC 100) =4.25.1 (Harvey), as translated in the Liturgy of the hours for the Of...
Sunday, February 20, 2022

"if the bed sprouted, not a bed but wood would come up"

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"man is born from man, but not bed from bed.  That is why people say that the figure is not the nature of a bed, but the wood is—if the...
Saturday, February 5, 2022

"Even if the Pope were Satan incarnate, we ought not to raise up our heads against him, but calmly lie down to rest on his bosom": A reasonably faithful pastiche

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"Even if the Pope were Satan incarnate, we ought not to raise up our heads against him, but calmly lie down to rest on his bosom. He wh...
Monday, January 31, 2022

Pseudo-Bonhoeffer: "One can't be a Christian and a nationalist at the same time."

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     Jean Lasserre, War and the gospel, trans. Oliver Coburn (London:  James Clarke & Co. Limited; Scottsdale, PA:  Herald Press, 1962 [...
Saturday, January 29, 2022

"an elevation of the [original] sense of the text"

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"Over against this [recent exegetical trend] stands the dogmatic heritage of church history [(der dogmengeschichtliche Befund)], accord...