“Whence is it that you found the truth, o, Plato? … I know your teachers, although you seek to conceal them: you learned geometry from the Egyptians, astronomy from the Babylonians, you received pious invocations from the Thracians; the Assyrians taught you a great deal. > 1/2 >And, to the extent the laws [you expound] are true and glorify God, you have benefited yourself from the Jews.”

—Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus 2/2

Origen deplored Plato, who took pains to learn the languages of Easterners, thus, ‘instead of remaining a Greek’, he opted for ‘behaving as a barbarian in order to benefit Egyptians & Syrians’, wherefore he ended up saying nothing helpful both to those barbarians & to the Greeks. #Porphyry did not see Plato as an authority, not to mention his loathing of Socrates.

A reading from the Book of the holy Prophet Hosea (6:1-6) Come, let us return to the Lord,/ it is he who has rent, but he will heal us;/ he has struck us, but he will bind our wounds./ He will revive us after two days;/ on the third day he will raise us up,/ to live in his presence./
#AntecedentCauses

Make “orthodox” universal again!! Take back what imperialism stole!
#AGAINSTJUSTINIAN Justinian weaponized the word “orthodox”; claiming rights (™️©️) over YOUR thoughts!!
#AGAINSTJUSTINIAN
#dontbethatguy! 🤫

For this is the safest way to protect the good things you enjoy: Realize how much your Creator has honored you above all other creatures.  He did not make the heavens in His image, nor the moon, the sun, the beauty of the stars or anything else which surpasses understanding. You alone are a reflection of eternal beauty, a receptacle of happiness, an image of the true light.  And, if you look to Him, you will become what He is, imitating Him who shines within you, whose glory is reflected in your purity.

Growing up is hard to do... #SoulBecomingNous #CompletionofReason #MindfromWithout (θύραθεν νοῦς) #AntecedentCauses #SoulBecomingNous #irrationality #ReturntoReason #CompletionofReason #MindfromWithout (θύραθεν νοῦς)

We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see God’s original purpose in everything created. For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels— everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. He was there before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to this moment. And when it comes to the church, he organizes and holds it together, like a head does a body. —st Paul
#Anaxagorean

Origen’s preface [to On First Principles] provides a key to his intentions. He begins by arguing that those who believe and are persuaded that Christ is God’s Logos and Truth must seek the truth through Christ’s teachings. —J. Trigg #MindfromWithout (θύραθεν νοῦς) ...Since Christ is the Logos, these constitute the entire Bible, not just Christ’s words recorded in the Gospels.

Dont be sad at your entry into the silence of the grave, O mortal most fair, who are subject to corruption in the ignominy of death: look how God has placed a limit for your silent & humiliated existence, and for your deprived state, not remembered by anyone.
—St Isaac the Syrian How beautiful is the way you are made, but how grievous is your dissolution! Let not sorrow batter you because of this, for you are going to put on [a] body…burning with fire and with spirit, bearing the precise image of its Maker.
—St Abba Isaac the Syrian