Reformation Day
Monday, October 31st, 2005Happy Reformation Day! Celebrate: Read Galatians... have a beer...
Happy Reformation Day! Celebrate: Read Galatians... have a beer...
St Crispin and St. Crispinian Day
Tuesday, October 25th, 2005You may recognize the name of the day "St. Crispin's Day" from Harry's speach in Henry V: This day is called the Feast of Crispian. He that outlives this day and comes safe home Will stand a-tiptoe when this day is named And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall see this ...
Gorgias
Sunday, October 23rd, 2005I just finished Gorgias. Towards the end, Socrates sounds very much like the people Luther was writing against (both Catholics and radical protestants) in his Lectures on Galatians that I just finished.
6009
Saturday, October 22nd, 2005Happy birthday to the world. According to James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh the world was created today at 6pm 4004 B.C. Seems like great cause for celebration! ":-D" a link to somewhere
Pollus
Tuesday, October 18th, 2005I'm reading Plato's Gorgias right now, and I came across a quotation that I would definately get put on a shirt if I went back to SJC. Socrates is talking to Pollus, who is a young buck that is better at talking than answering: But look at it the other way. If ...
Eumenides
Saturday, October 15th, 2005I just finished the last extant play in the Orestia. It is a pretty interesting play. There is a referece to Mars Hill, which is also mentioned in Acts 17. Apparently it was named such because when the Amazons were mad at Thesesus they came to this spot (near Athens) ...
Leif Erickson Day!
Sunday, October 9th, 2005Today is Leif Erickson day in Iceland, Norway, Wisconson, and Minnesota. In other news, I'm back! My brother changed servers, so that's why I was gone...
Decalogue
Monday, October 3rd, 2005Ever heard the "Ten Commandments" referred to as the "Decalogue"? It is interesting that the Greeks chose this word instead of something like Deka-entole or something that is more like "Ten commandments." It might be because the Hebrew doesn't say commandments. It says "words." These are the ten words. (Deca-10 ...
Deuteronomy 30:11
Monday, October 3rd, 2005I'd like to hear what St. Paul and Luther thought about this verse: For this commandment which I command you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it out of reach. -NASB I'm sure they would say that with God it is easy or something. But (out of context) ...
Metaphor to idiom
Monday, October 3rd, 2005I was going to write a cheesy poetical post about how I was surprised because I thought we had been "plunged into the depths" of winter but now it was warm. But then I realized that I no longer recognized that as a metaphor. Weird isn't it?
October
Saturday, October 1st, 2005Latin: October (eighth month), French: octobre, Spanish: octubre, Portuguese: Outubro, Italian: ottobre, German: Oktober, Welsh: Hydref (denotes lowing of cattle, from hyddfref), Scots Gaelic: an Dambar (derived from damb, "ox or stag", means "rutting time"), Irish: Deireadh Fomhair (end of autumn)
30th of September
Friday, September 30th, 2005Today is St. Jerome's day... he is the translator of the Vulgate(from Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek to Latin). Luther is conatantly disagreeing with him about Galatians. Apparently Jerome thought Paul meant the ceremonial law and not the ten commandments each time he said 'law' in Galatians. Luther points out that he is doing ...
Great Books Part Deaux
Friday, September 30th, 2005Great Books There's the link... it is in progress, but you can check it out now if you want... It is kinda hard to see how it will work, but things will be changing as Thomas works on them...
Great Books
Thursday, September 29th, 2005So my brother and I are going to put up a place where people can talk about "THE GREAT BOOKS" I'll hit you with the link when it is avaliable... Until then, if you are interested in helping me scratch together ISBN's of good translations (I've just finished the freshman year ...
The Hidden Church
Tuesday, September 27th, 2005Therefore we correctly confess in the Creed that we believe a holy church. For it is invisible [hidden], dwelling in the Spirit, in an "unapproachable" place (1 Tim. 6:16); therefore its holiness cannot be seen. God conceals and covers it with weaknesses, sins, errors, and various offenses and forms of ...
Oh, that Bill Parcells
Tuesday, September 27th, 2005He's such a cut-up... One thing that doesn't exactly concern Parcells is his players having "too much" fun out here in California. "Because we have a curfew," said Parcells, who has warned his players of the penalty at stake for returning late to the hotel. "Well, if you want to spend ...
Yesterday…
Monday, September 26th, 2005all my troubles... no wait... Yesterday (the 25th of September) coincidently was the day that King Harold (of Brittan? England?) defeated King Harold of Norway in 1066; just weeks before the big battle of Hastings...
Theological Miscellany
Thursday, September 22nd, 2005There have been a few loose ends floating around in my head, so here they are: First of all, there is a real neat concept in Luther's commentary on Galatians... I can't remember the verse. But he says that it is as absurd to think that the law brings righteousness as ...
Happy St. Matthew’s Day
Wednesday, September 21st, 2005And the last day of Summer... at least for the Northern Hemisphere... St. Matthew is a pretty well known saint; the patron saint of taxcollectors, and he wrote a pretty famous book. I got my OT test score... it was an 85 (he actually curved it so I got 85/90), which ...
Symptom vs. Disease
Monday, September 12th, 2005Something has come pretty clear to me lately. We need to treat the disease. With, or after that, we can worry about the symptoms, but ain't nothin' gonna change 'till we fix the root problem. Which is why, right now, I'm (and please don't take this to mean "And all other ...
