[W]hen we are fully conscious of our own foolishness, and have felt the helplessness and destitution of our reason, then through the counsels of Divine Wisdom we shall be initiated into the wisdom of God; setting no bounds to boundless majesty and power, nor tying the Lord of nature down to natureās laws. – St. Hilary of Poitiers American writer Kurt Vonnegutās novel Slaughterhouse-Five tells the story of the Allied bombing of Dresden, Germany during World War II, which Vonnegut, held by the Nazis there as a prisoner of war, survived. Thousands of civilians died, andā¦
“The knowledge of what is good and what is not ā¦ is an original and fundamental part of our nature, and ā¦ the Law of Moses praises it, and getteth praise from itā¦.”Ā St. John Chrysostom I recently ran across an amusing meme on social media that went like this: Moses comes down from Mt. Sinai carrying the two stone tablets engraved by the finger of God with the Ten Commandments, and a thought bubble comes from the crowd below, saying, āWhew! Glad my nameās not āThou.āā When we think of the Law of Moses, weā¦
