Shadows of My Father by Christoph Werner

Author:Christoph Werner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-09-26T04:00:00+00:00

Here I protested and told the pastor that this was too much praise, and would he please strike that. But he answered that my opinion was one thing, the opinion of my patients and his parish as well as the city of Leipzig and the electoral and ducal courts where I had served, another. If I refused this praise, it would be a reproach to the princes and lords whom I had served, suggesting an inability to have found a good physician. So we left the text as it was. I must say that it was not difficult to persuade me. Who is free from vanity and does not set a high value on the memory of posterity?

Pastor Weinrich then went on to talk about the difference between the spiritual and the fleshly heart, and here he spoke what I as a doctor would not have said otherwise:

Fleshly hearts search for the greatest good in bonis corporis, which means the good of the body, so that there might be strength, beauty, fresh and healthy limbs, and whatever else might grace and adorn the human form. But all this is of short and uncertain duration. As Bernhardus says: “How soon a little fever comes or another seemingly small illness, and gone are strength and beauty, and some are so wretchedly mauled that they are frightened by their own shadow. Beauty and strength of the body are void and fleeting, and the older a man gets, the more he is reduced in beauty and bodily strength.”

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