Thursday, March 27, 2025

"In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed."

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      Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Prudence" ( Essays:  first series, no. 7) par. 14 (Library of America 15 (1983), p. 364).  The comma i...
Friday, February 21, 2025

"A better place by far to linger in the night season"

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Wycliffe College      "Even my mother and father may, and in death probably will, forget me (Isa. 49:15; Ps. 27:10). I feel this every ...
Sunday, February 16, 2025

"no longer is death terrifying"

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     "That death has been dissolved, and the cross has become victory over it, and it is no longer strong but is itself truly dead, no ...
Monday, February 3, 2025

Textus receptus

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 " Textum ergo habes, nunc ab omnibus receptum :  in quo nihil immutatum aut corruptum damus."      Η ΚΑΙΝΗ ΔΙΑΘΗΚΗ.   [Hē Kaine...
Saturday, February 1, 2025

St. Athanasius on Gen 2:17

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"This 'you shall die by death,' what else might it be except not merely to die, but to remain in the corruption of death?"...

"we were the purpose of his embodiment"

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Τῆς γὰρ ἐκείνου ἐνσωματώσεως ἡμεῖς γεγόναμεν ὑπόθεσις      St. Athanasius, De incarnatione 4, trans. Behr ( St. Athanasius the Great On the ...
Sunday, January 26, 2025

"God, . . . rich in means, employs all things for his hidden ends"

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"Dieu, . . . fécond en moyens, emploie toutes choses à ses fins cachées".      Fr. Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, "Oraison funébre ...