Sunday, March 21, 2010

Hidden Treasure, Prerequisite for Christianity

1. Marvin Pope, Song of Songs.

St. Augustine said in City of God 17:20 concerning the Song of Songs being allegory:

The Canticle of Canticles is the spiritual joy of saintly souls at the nuptials of the King and Queen of the City, of Christ and his Church. This joy, however, is hidden under the veil of an allegory in order to render the desire more ardent and the discovery more delightful at the apparition of the bridegroom and the bride.

2. H.I. Marrou, A History of Education in Antiquity, page 319.

It is a fact established by history and by ethnography that Christianity requires a minimum of civilization as a condition of its existence.

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