Posted on 02/17/2005 12:58:57 PM PST by Mike Fieschko
Rome, Feb. 17 (CWNews.com) - Vatican archeologists believe that they have identified the tomb of St. Paul in the Roman basilica that bears his name.A sarcophagus which may contain the remains of St. Paul was identified in the basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, reports Giorgio Filippi, a archeology specialist with the Vatican Museums. The sarcophagus was discovered during the excavations carried out in 2002 and 2003 around the basilica, which is located in the south of Rome. Having reached what they believe is a positive identification of the tomb, Vatican experts will soon make a public announcement of their discovery.
If this is sarcasm, please include the /sarcasm tag.
If not, please explain to me what is good about homosexuality?
Actually, a quite reasonable, former Catholic, Protestant
Do you see no value in history at all?
I am a Protestant and dislike much of Roman Catholic theology.
But, this is dang fascinating just for the historical side.
And, if it is Paul, wow! How sweet is that?
Well, he is the Vatican archaeologist.
If the Church tells him not to open it, he won't.
Unfortunately, the Catholic Church likes to horde its finds to itself and not let scientists examine.
Case in point: they refuse to let any excavation at all take place below the Temple Mount where the Ark of the Covenant may be buried.
The Catholics just flat refuse.
It is frustrating stuff.
It seems to me that the Garden Tomb in Jerusalem is much more likely than the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
There is a skull-shaped cliff right by the Garden Tomb, by the way.
The indication being a reference to his handwriting being large. This could have been because of poor vision, or possibly a problem with manual dexterity. Either way, it was likely some brain damage caused by having been stoned several times. Once he was stoned and thought to be dead, and recovered later.
And some believe it was poor eyesight after his experience on the road to Damascus and from his comment about how big his handwriting was.
I vote for Cardinal Sodano...
He does indeed. And I actually believe that some of this was left vauge just so we could fight about it...so we stay focused.
Cause really. Either way here, it doesn't matter. No one's going to find salvation because of someone's handwriting. But it makes us talk...and think. And if nothing else, it makes us believe.
Bless you also, my FRiend.
Not so sweet IMO... Just don't get it..
History.?. Maybe, maybe not.. Hero worship flys in the face of Pauls ministry.. as I see it.. but it was just a question.. no flame intended.. toward anybody..
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See what a letter I have written to you with my own handThe New International Version has it
See what large letters I use as I write to you with my own hand!The Greek original is
idete pelikois ymin grammasin egrapsa te eme cheiriLiterally,
see with what distinct (or particular) letters (I) wrote with my handJerome translates
videte qualibus litteris scripsi vobis mea manu"Grammasin" is plural. "Litteris" is plural dative of "littera" and so Paul must be referring to the particularity of the letters of the alphabet and not, as Douay has it, of the entire epistle.
On this thread earlier I checked with Douay only, but had a memory of "big letters", hence the mistaken mentioning of another Paul's letter.
1 Corinthians, Colossians, 2 Thessalonians indicate that Paul wrote the farewell greeting in his own hand.
In Philemon 1:19 Paul indicates that the entire letter is written personally by him:
I Paul have written it with my own hand: I will repay it: not to say to thee that thou owest me thy own self also.
The point stands: Paul had difficulty writing, and when he did, made large letters he himself could see. He had his letters typically dictated, but one was written by him entirely and others had the prting words written by him. The high literary quality of his epistles, as well as his elevated position prior to the conversion, indicate a level of education incompatible with illiteracy, as is the fact that he could write at least a part of his letter.
ROTFLMHO!!!
"I am a Protestant and dislike much of Roman Catholic theology."
There are not a hundred people in America who hate the Catholic Church—but there are millions who hate what they mistakenly think the Catholic Church teaches.
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
"Which is important.. WHY.?."
It is important because it's a Christian discovery and reinforces Christian identity and Western culture, which is good, of course.
My mother grew up Catholic and I have a book on Catholic doctrine by some Bishop of Boston at the end of the 19th century. I am not just reading some Prot site.
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