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A text without a context is a pretext.
Quoted from unknown source by Rev. D. Hermerding
Gramercy, fellow; there, drink that for me.
Et tu, Brutè? Then fall Caesar.
Julius Caesar — Shakespeare
Syme sat down at a café table with his companions, his blue eyes sparkling like the bright sea below, and ordered a bottle of Sammur with a pleased impatience.
Light hath no tongue but is all eye;
Charles Edward Telfair probably didn’t recognize how important his bananas would become.
In leading up to this position, the logical analysis of science decisively reveals its own limitations and points beyond itself in the direction of a fiduciary formulation of science, to which I propose to move on at a late stage of enquiry.
But this leviathan, or perverse notion concerning works, is unconquerable where sincere faith is wanting.
Thanks to the Zwickau discovery we can date his study of Augustine as far back as the autumn of 1509.
The fallacy of presentism is a complex anachronism, in which the antecedent in a narrative series is falsified by being defined of interpreted in terms of the consequent.
When noble Coön, Antenor’s eldest son, saw this, sore indeed were his eyes at the sight of his fallen brother.
When the child of the morning, rosy-fingered Dawn appeared, they again yoked their horses and drove out through the gateway under the echoing gatehouse.
The Odyssey — Homer
You cannot, for example, use Shakespeare’s Othello as a guide for brain surgery. At least, if your brain surgeon tells you that that is where he obtained his knowledge of surgical procedure, I would strongly recommend you ask for a second opinion.
Nero focused on his undramatic, slow-motion act, elated by both the feeling of standing up for his beliefs and the aesthetics of its execution.
And, within the latter, reason was granted the right to examine and explain the credentials of revelation.
In Melanchthon’s Tractatus de Postestate et Primatu papae (1537), which was included along with the Schmalkaldic Articles in the Book of Concord, there is no hint of eschatological expectations, and the idea of the Endechrist is carefully but noticeably demythologized.
Then imagine instead of the black or gray or chestnut back of the horse the soft roughness of golden fur, and the main flying back in the wind.
“What is ‘peace’?” she asked.
‘It is now many years ago,’ said Glóin, ‘that a shadow of disquiet fell upon our people.’
Meanwhile the company had relaxed into a hollow but praiseworthy imitation of a pleasure gathering.
Away then with such subtleties!
The year 1554 opened with stalemate in Geneva.
The Gnostics were profoundly influenced by the dualistic conception of the Greeks, in which matter as inherently evil is represented as utterly opposed to spirit; and by a mystic tendency to regard earthly things as allegorical representations of great cosmic redeeming processes.
I came to Carthage and all around me hissed a cauldron of illicit loves.
“You have a quarrel on hand, I see,” said I, “with some of the algebraists of Paris; but proceed.”
Now Giant Despair had a wife, and her name was Diffidence:
And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.
This alternate sucession of appetites, adversions hopes, and fears is no less in other living creatures than in man, and therefore beasts also deliberate.
Then she suddenly smiled.
But with Isaiah it is different. His whole point of view is theocentric, emphasizing that Israel lives for the sake of Jehovah, and possibly the berith-idea with its strongly stressed mutualness did not appear to him peculiarly adapted for bringing this God-centered characteristic of religion to the front.
An example of this was given: If a king thanks his servants, they value it greatly, but if he makes it known throughout his realm, then is its value greatly increased.
In which regard there is no difference between the murdering of an innocent man and the executing of an offender; but as they are under a moral consideration, their ends follow their deservings, in respect of conformity to the rule, and so there is χάσμα μέγα between them.
A self-evident proposition, though always self-evident in itself, is sometimes self-evident to us and sometimes not.
There was an immediate shortage of beer,
And smale foweles maken melodye,That slepen al the nyght with open ye
Humour and irony in the service of theology? Can a Protestant do that?
