The Most Lamentable Comedy of Pyramus and Thisbe
“You could be torn away from me, alas!, by death alone; yet you will not be able to be torn away even by death!”
September 30, 2024
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“You could be torn away from me, alas!, by death alone; yet you will not be able to be torn away even by death!”
Kuhnau’s “The Combat Between David and Goliath” is rich in text painting and theological insight.
“Man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless; he can only enjoy, with a good conscience, what he has acquired with toil and trouble; he refuses to have anything as a gift.”
Number is inherent in the way Christ holds the universe together, so to know what numbers are (not just how to use them or why to use them) is imperative for a Christian mathematics education.
The Christian takes the Greek myth by the hand, so to speak, and leads him to Jesus. Ovid makes some fine points, but only Christians can take those points to their proper destination in the truth of Holy Scripture.