Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Quote of the day: First century sleaze

"Now the most excellent five were of this character, they related to the monarchial principle on which the world is governed; to images and statues, and in short to all erections of any kind made by hand"

(Philo, Decalogue 51 - transl. de Yonge, C., The works of Philo : Complete and unabridged Peabody: Hendrickson, 1995, p. 522)

Too much information, Philo. Too much information.

7 Comments:

At 12/12/2007 11:44 PM, Anonymous Jim said...

.... um.... methinks thou hast misunderstood....

 
At 12/12/2007 11:55 PM, Anonymous byron smith said...

Methinks Philo knew all about allegorical, literal, spiritual and all others kinds of readings and multiple meanings. The dirty old man meant every word!

 
At 12/13/2007 12:58 AM, Anonymous Ken Schenck said...

You never cease to amaze me... and to think I thought I could deconstruct others' words.

 
At 12/13/2007 10:24 AM, Anonymous Rev Tony B said...

So when they talk about "doing stand-up comedy," what's all that about?

 
At 12/13/2007 9:40 PM, Anonymous Chris Tilling said...

Right, Byron, he knew. Jim, you need to know that Byron, Ken, Tony and I all see it.

Tony. REV???? You shouldn't find this funny!! And that joke is TOTALLY inappropriate for a Rev!

 
At 12/14/2007 12:39 AM, Anonymous michele said...

Wow! This is a great example of reading a modern meaning into a word, I think I'll bookmark it and use it sometime (a negative example of course :-)

 
At 12/14/2007 10:53 AM, Anonymous Rev Tony B said...

Yeah... So should I be penitent, or just say I'm being incarnationally involved in my context?

 

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