The Christ of Promise in Homer Hesios Vergil Ovid Horace Etc
The Christ of Promise in Homer Hesios Vergil Ovid Horace Etc
Vincent Alphonso Fitz Simon
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For man : for his sake, and aeons previous to his existence, had the burden of the world been impressed on the shoulders of our Lord ; and to save this man, the Saviour poured out a sovereign remedy — his own precious blood. And why all this for a mere creature? Because the Creator had given him an immortal soul. 7. He apostrophizes Adam who, by eating the forbidden fruit, forfeited the right of transmitting immediate knowledge, and left posterity the vexed creatures of guess-work (to^occv) — o...f "Reason, the power To guess at right and wrong, the twinkling lamp Of wand'ring life, that winks and wakes by turns, Fooling the follower betwixt shade and shining. " trampled on the preachers. While patriotic and law-abiding citi- zens, they distinguished what was Caesar's from what was God's, and formed of themselves an inner circle, a "gens humana" (as Horace puts it) that was bound together by the strong ties of religious fervor, a common interest and a common danger. Those men could not have written with the haste and ease of ordinary writers : every word had to be studied, every sentence to be weighed, in order to spread the light and still preserve the caco- graphic veil — to be studied and weighed lest obscurity should nullify desire, or desire focus light too manifestly on the obscure — to be studied and weighed lest over-timidity expose them to the contempt, and over-daring to the censure of the cult.
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