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strielka.



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PostPosted: Sun May 31, 2009 10:10 am    Post subject: sam's fall Reply with quote

Hello teachers,

there are two sentences from 'Sam's fall' book which are quite unclear to me and I would be glad if you help me understand them.

1. He told us of the age-old quest for a perfect liturgy which might reveal the ways of God to man and reunite the fragmented Word of Christ - a quest that had inspired so much Western monasticism from the outset.

Does "the ways of God to man" mean a way to find God or God's attitutude towards us, the way God sees us?

2. "Blessed is the soul wounded by love, for in its wounding it is always healed."

Does it mean that the one who is wounded will be healed because love caused it?


Thanks in advance
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 2:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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1. He told us of the age-old quest for a perfect liturgy which might reveal the ways of God to man and reunite the fragmented Word of Christ - a quest that had inspired so much Western monasticism from the outset.

Does "the ways of God to man" mean a way to find God or God's attitutude towards us, the way God sees us?


Neither. You're not getting the big picture here: you're forgetting that this whole phrase is the object of the verb reveal. The "perfect liturgy" in question would be one that accomplished something. One of the things it would accomplish is to reveal something to someone. What would it reveal? The ways of God. To whom would it reveal them? To man. Why would God want to reveal His ways to schmucks like us? Incredible as it seems, He apparently loves us and wants us to know Him. Very Happy

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2. "Blessed is the soul wounded by love, for in its wounding it is always healed."

Does it mean that the one who is wounded will be healed because love caused it?


Yeah, more or less. It speaks of the transcending power of love to overcome all pain and suffering; of the ultimate inability of true love to genuinely cause harm. Stuff like that.

Greg
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