Re: Why, like Greta Thunberg, I despair Archived Message
Posted by turtleman on October 22, 2019, 5:42 pm, in reply to "Re: Why, like Greta Thunberg, I despair"
But the ambiguities of figurative words . . . require no little care and industry. [. . .] What the Apostle says pertains to this problem: "For the letter killeth, but the spirit quickeneth." That is, when that which is said figuratively is taken as though it were literal, it is understood carnally. Nor can anything more appropriately be called the death of the soul than that condition in which the thing which distinguishes us from beasts, which is the understanding, is subjected to the flesh in the pursuit of the letter. He who follows the letter takes figurative expressions as though they were literal and does not refer the things signified to anything else. - St Augustine
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- Why, like Greta Thunberg, I despair - John Monro October 21, 2019, 5:52 am
- Yes John, we're going to make it. Just much fewer, and much chastened. On a living planet that's - Rhisiart Gwilym October 21, 2019, 9:27 am
- Re: Why, like Greta Thunberg, I despair - turtleman October 21, 2019, 9:25 pm
- Re: Why, like Greta Thunberg, I despair - Willem October 22, 2019, 12:50 am
- Re: Why, like Greta Thunberg, I despair - turtleman October 22, 2019, 3:44 am
- Re: Why, like Greta Thunberg, I despair - dan October 22, 2019, 8:09 am
- Re: Why, like Greta Thunberg, I despair - Thomas Newfield October 22, 2019, 10:53 am
- Re: Why, like Greta Thunberg, I despair - walter October 22, 2019, 11:20 am
- Re: Why, like Greta Thunberg, I despair - Willem October 22, 2019, 12:48 pm
- Re: Why, like Greta Thunberg, I despair - dan October 22, 2019, 5:46 pm
- Re: Why, like Greta Thunberg, I despair - turtleman October 22, 2019, 5:42 pm
- Re: Why, like Greta Thunberg, I despair - Willem October 22, 2019, 11:28 am
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