Month: August 2022
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Church Fathers on ‘Hate Father and Mother’ (Luke 14.26) (Mirror/Transcription from City-Data.com)
This is a re-upload/transcription of a post from the City-Data.com forums made by the user “MPHJ7”, in the 13th of October 2021 – it’s comments on Luke 14.26 using quotes from St. Clement of Alexandria, St. John Chrysostom, and St. Augustine of Hippo. The post is titled, “How Ancient Christians Read “Hate Father and Mother”…
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On “Turn the Other Cheek” (Mirror/Transcription of screenshots from 4chan)
This is a transcription of a series of 4chan posts/screencaps commenting on the Bible verse Matthew 5.29 (“But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also”). You can find the screenshots on Know Your Meme here and here. There’s…
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4th Century or 21st? – Saint Basil on the State of the Church (Epist. 92) and My Thoughts On It
Recently I had stumbled across a quote from Saint Basil of Caesarea that I found very interesting. I looked up the source and found that it was from his Letters, namely letter XCII (92), with the translation found in Nicene Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II, Volume VIII. In his letter, Basil laments the current state of…