Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔

217 killed, 789 injured and 95,7773 forcibly displaced

At least 217 killed, 789 injured and 95,7773 forcibly displaced in Lebanon due to Israeli strikes already

via Megaphone News

“You keep using that word; I do not think it means what you think it means.”

I found out late last night that yesterday was Mark the Ascetic’s commemoration. Kinda bummed I didn’t have time to read anything by him yesterday. Maybe today!

Okay. I take it back. Apparently the UBS GNT always comes with headings.

I still dislike them.

I did not spend over $50 on UBS6 to have to put up with English headings.

A map with descriptive text

Now the Bekaa valley. The IDF is ordering the forced evacuation of three towns in the Bekaa, east Lebanon

We now have all of south Lebanon, all of Dahieh and parts of the Bekaa

Map showing Dahieh in red and orange

The IDF just ordered the forced evacuation of *all of Dahieh* a day after ordering the forced evacuation of all of South Lebanon.

Israel is taking advantage of the focus on Iran to destroy Lebanon

Urgent warning to residents of southern Lebanon: Hezbollah’s terrorist activities are forcing the Defense Army to act against it with force. The Defense Army does not intend to harm you. For your safety, you must evacuate your homes immediately. Anyone who is near Hezbollah members, its facilities, or its weapons puts his life at risk. Any house used by Hezbollah for military purposes may become a target. To the residents of southern Lebanon, you must go right away to the north side of the Litani River to ensure your safety—evacuate your homes immediately and move northward beyond the Litani River. Be aware that any movement southward will endanger your lives.

Quick translation of the IDF statement ordering all of south Lebanon's population to immediately leave.

Keep in mind that Israel has never stopped bombing south Lebanon since the 'ceasefire.' They are now taking the next step to destroy as much of the country as they can.

Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced.

They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon.

The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

Never mind an interlinear bible, get me a New Testament in the RSV with Greek text facing from the left-hand side.

Can’t un-see/un-hear it.

I guess I have a reasonable, yet strong opinion that all hardcover books should come with a ribbon marker. Especially non-fiction.

Dumbarton Oaks are also published by HUP, no? Those have ribbon bookmarks and cost . . . <checks notes> . . . *EXACTLY THE SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY* as Loeb volumes. They’re also on nicer paper. What gives???

@poetinbabylon.bsky.social

Don’t you suppose that Harvard could have invested an extra dollar to have a bookmark-ribbon sold on every Loeb volume? I appreciate the dust jackets but dislike feeling the need to use them as bookmarks.

Sitting down to read some second-century texts. Don’t mind if I do. Let the enjoyment commence — /otium sanctum/.

Oh I didn’t mean to suggest anything like that. Just trying to send positive, empathetic thoughts your way.

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Don’t mind if we do

I should probably take a look at Thomas P. Scheck’s _Origen and the History of Justification_.

I have a hunch that really what could be happening is that I’m focusing on a more Johannine element and Calvin’s language of decree might be more Pauline (à la Romans 9-11).

Anyways, this reading (or maybe mis*reading) of λόγοι led me to the question of whether Origen’s theory of eternal divine purpose for humanity and creation might correspond at all with Calvin’s use of the language of decree.

[A little bit (song and dance) wherein the church fathers pull a Rick Warren] 🤭😆

So Maximus the Confessor will discuss how it is proper to the human being to contemplate the λόγους of creation, and virtue consists in proper use while evil is improper use or misdirected use. Passion (πάθη) being the misdirection of the will.

I must admit I am not an expert linguist to claim to have a tight grasp on how each father uses his words. However, to paint with quite a broad stroke, I would say “λόγος” seems to me to read not merely as “reason” but also as “principle governing one’s purpose,” hence “reason.”

As I recall, upon reading Origen, it was my impression that he thought the λόγοι of all souls/creation to have had their beginning in God (God having no such beginning). And I do not think the subsequent Origenian tradition necessarily reads the preexistence of souls into Origen.

Okay, @poetinbabylon.bsky.social, here goes nothing.

Origen is often suspected to have believed in the “preexistence of souls.” I cannot attempt to prove otherwise, however my reading of Origen in Περί Αρχών is a bit more cautious. I am not sure describes human souls as co-eternal with God.

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