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.
posted by Chris Tilling @ 11:23 PM
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7 Comments:
.... um.... methinks thou hast misunderstood....
Methinks Philo knew all about allegorical, literal, spiritual and all others kinds of readings and multiple meanings. The dirty old man meant every word!
You never cease to amaze me... and to think I thought I could deconstruct others' words.
So when they talk about "doing stand-up comedy," what's all that about?
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!
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 :-)
Yeah... So should I be penitent, or just say I'm being incarnationally involved in my context?
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