http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Origen2.jpg Origen, missed. Cut him off at the pass
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emptybill" <emptybill@...> wrote: > > > To bad for you. > You missed Plotinus and the other Platonists that > followed him until Justinian closed the academy. > No wonder you don't believe in this stuff. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, William Parkinson <ameradian2@> > wrote: > > > > Now I understand!! Well, my own expertise runs from 200 B.C.E. to 200 > C.E.. My concentration and my doctoral program was in Early > Christianity, Second Temple Judaism, and to a lesser degree Greco-Roman > mystery cults (in particular, Mithras and Hekete). Once we get > beyond 200 C.E., I fear I will be a precious little use. But certainly > anything anyone wants to discuss I would be open to chiming in if I > felt like anything worthwhile to add.  What did you have in mind? > > Cheers > > Bill > > > > From: Bob Price bobpriced@ > > To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 4:30 PM > > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] A word from St. Paul > > > > > >  > > Bill, > >  > > I was using AD (Anno Domini) interchangeably with CE (common or > Christian era). The period I'm hoping to start a new discussion on is > 31/32 C.E. (death of Jesus) to May 22, 337 C.E. (death of > Constantine). > >  > > When Robin returned some excellent serves from a number of FFL posters > the focus was the 13th centuryand 1943 (I believe the 1943 reference > concerned the bombing by the Allies of the Benedictine Monastery at > Mount Cassino). > >  > > http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,796392,00.html > > > > From: William Parkinson ameradian2@ > > To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 3:36:08 PM > > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] A word from St. Paul > > > > > >  > > Bob did you mean 37C.E.? I have never heard of a 337C.E. date. Is that > what you meant? > > Cheers > > Bill > > > > From: Bob Price bobpriced@ > > To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 2:17 PM > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] A word from St. Paul > > > > > >  > > 1 Corinthians 13 > > American Standard Version (ASV) > >  > >  1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not > love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. > >  2And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and > all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but > have not love, I am nothing. > >  3And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my > body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing. > >  4Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love > vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, > >  5doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not > provoked, taketh not account of evil; > >  6rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth; > >  7beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, > endureth all things. > >  8Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall > be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there > be knowledge, it shall be done away. > >  9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; > >  10but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part > shall be done away. > >  11When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I > thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish > things. > >  12For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now > I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully > known. > >  13But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the > greatest of these is love. > >  > > >
