Posted by Sigismund on December 9, 2007, at 15:25:32
In reply to Lou's reply to sigismund-aftrlf » Sigismund, posted by Lou Pilder on December 9, 2007, at 10:23:51
Thank you Lou
For this
>One of the aspects of the issue here of suicide is about [...the lost sheep...].
and the only bit of Revelations that I can remember liking
>And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
Maybe Revelations was written during the Diocletian terror and that explains the tone of it?
But the Gospel of John is not great on the Jews. I was listening once to the St John Passion and where you get to (if I remember correctly, and this is from memory) the text saying 'His blood be on us and on our children and on our children's children', Bach does a grim and impressive fugue and the whole thing has so much historical resonance that the hair stood up on the back of my neck and I felt guilty for that, both together.
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