The 4 Stages of Butterflies & Humans by Edward N. Haas

Author:Edward N. Haas [Haas, Edward N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781481714501
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2013-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

Therefore, lest we fall into the same error and be laughed to scorn as the result of arguing that way with the Greeks whenever we engage them in a dispute, let us charge the Apostles with want of learning. This very charge, you see, is praise. Likewise, when they say that the Apostles were rude, let’s go along with the remark and add that they were also untaught, and unlettered, and poor, and vile, and stupid, and inconspicuous. It is not a slander on the Apostles to say such; rather, it is even a glory that—being such—they should have outshone the whole world. I mean: These untrained, and rude, and illiterate men so completely vanquished the wise and powerful—and the tyrants and those who flourished in wealth and glory and all outwardly good things—that it was as if they were not men at all. From that, it is manifest how great is the power of the Cross, and that these things were done by no human strength. After all, the results are not inkeeping with the course of nature; rather, what was done was above all nature. But, when anything takes place above nature—and exceedingly above it on the side of rectitude and utility—it is quite plain that these things are done by some Divine power and cooperation.

——ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM (347-407 AD): Homilies On First Corinthians, Homily 3:8 (This is my re-translation of the English translation given in the upper right-hand column of page 14 in volume 12 of the first series of A Select Library Of The Nicene And Post-Nicene Fathers Of The Christian Church as published by the Wm. B. Eerd-mans Publishing Company in 1956 in Grand Rapids, Michigan-ENH.).

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