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I’m reading again!

“To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.”

“Many feel themselves at liberty to talk about the truth, even though they have never plumbed the depths from which it springs and, when they are led there, they quickly get tired because they are being taken off the beaten paths they have trod so often.”

“For if we play shepherd to the wind we find pasture for the devils, because by straying from the truth we give them food for laughter and fill their cup of pleasure.”

“‘The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life,’ but this healing fear is today hardly found among Christian men.”

“A sexual order rooted in the assumption that any man in a position of power had the right to exploit his inferiors, to use the orifices of a slave or a prostitution to relieve his needs much as he might use a urinal, had been ended. Paul’s insistence that the body of every human being was a holy vessel had triumphed.”

The beginning of an age of Muslim rule around the Mediterranean saw a new flourishing of the English church. Very cool!

“Sexual desire, without Eros, wants ‘it’, the thing in itself; Eros wants the Beloved.”

“The great, permanent temptation of marriage is not to sensuality but (quite bluntly) to avarice.”

-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Polycarp answered, “You threaten fire that burns for a moment and is soon extinguished, for you know nothing of the judgement to come, and the fire of eternal punishment reserved for the wicked. But why do you delay? Bring what you wish.”

What was God to do? Does He allow humanity to plunge further into destruction? His mercy and love wouldn’t allow it. Does He ignore the evil and suffering that humanity has cause? His justice wouldn’t allow it. Christ became incarnate with the goal of satisfying both!

I’m almost done and free from bondage!

Oop. Unexpected crazy romance and tragedy with Mark Antony and Cleopatra, and with Herod and Mariamne??!?!

I’m in bondage. Soon I’ll be free.

Everyone should read the Old Testament. It is, if nothing else, an incredibly interesting story.

So this book is taking me a lot longer than I thought. It does have quite a few gems, though. The scary thing is that Josephus, who is coming next, is just as long 😳.

I swear I’m still alive, but I’ve got several beasts to tackle.

Will I finish this by the end of the year?

When do I find a job where I just read books for a living?