tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post6283456339384929071..comments2024-03-18T20:38:40.751+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Not the Crib again?Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-6371461712722455942019-12-20T16:45:05.255+00:002019-12-20T16:45:05.255+00:00Please keep giving us typology! I love it! I alm...Please keep giving us typology! I love it! I almost never hear sermons about it!<br /><br />Besides the ox and ass symbolizing the Jews and Gentiles, respectively, isn’t it also the case that these animals were worshiped as gods by the pagans? So that their presence in the stable of Bethlehem shows them resuming their rightful place as mere creatures subordinating themselves and paying homage Anita Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11305092097247290243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-42603720539995615362019-12-20T05:05:30.972+00:002019-12-20T05:05:30.972+00:00From another blog about the Manger.
My guess is th...From another blog about the Manger.<br />My guess is that it has to do with the Circumcised (the Jews) and the Uncircumcised/Foreskins (the Gentiles) being present at the manger, symbolized by clean and unclean animals. That's a very old bit of typology that you find in even very early fathers who comment on the nativity. Though neither animal is mentioned in the text of Holy Scripture itselfDale Crakeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12596274028119702873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-15577758813852357882019-12-19T22:11:13.638+00:002019-12-19T22:11:13.638+00:00Fr could you give us your trans of the Preface ple...Fr could you give us your trans of the Preface please?Dale Crakeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12596274028119702873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-87534245747627096072018-12-24T09:07:42.560+00:002018-12-24T09:07:42.560+00:00Oooo, I can sense the snowflakes of the neo-Purita...Oooo, I can sense the snowflakes of the neo-Puritan generation already sending for the smelling salts in anticipation of a clergyman talking about genitals...Colin Spinkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06187466247865796371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-69564170399868861502018-12-23T18:42:12.045+00:002018-12-23T18:42:12.045+00:00Lacta, mater, cibum nostrum; lacta panem de caelo ...Lacta, mater, cibum nostrum; lacta panem de caelo venientem; in praesepio positum velut piorum cibaria iumentorum. Illic namque agnovit bos possessorem suum, et asinus praesepium Domini sui, circumcisio scilicet et praeputim.<br /><br />Quod etiam Salvator et Dominus noster a Simeone susceptus in templo plenissime dignatus est adimplere. Et ideo cum angelis et archangelis.Hickory Bowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15268946217889661139noreply@blogger.com