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See Thomas Wilson, A Complete Christian Dictionary: ... [1678], p.504 : Scandalum (saith Tertullian) non est bona rei, sed rei male exemplum, ædificans ad delictum, bone autem res neminem scandalizant præter malas mentes. Scandal (says Tertullian) is not a good thing, but an example of a bad thing, ...

Wiki tells me: Late Latin borrowing from Ancient Greek σκανδαλίζω (skandalízō, “ cause to stumble , give offense”), from σκάνδαλον (skándalon, “the trigger of a trap; a stumbling-block ”) whence Latin scandalum , of uncertain origin. Tweaked slightly ('corrected' you may say), it makes perfect sense...

I suppose that if ἀκρατίζομαι (to drink unmixed wine) becomes ἠκρατισμένοι (they having drunk of the undiluted essence), you should be correct. ἀκρατίζομαι , as in: Philo, De Vita Moisis 2.204: ...μόνος ἀμιγοῦς ἠκρατίσω σοφίας .... (Various translations) 1 ."who alone has drunk the unmixed wine...

Philo Judaeus, De Ebrietate 1.148 : καίτοι γε ἐκεῖνοι μὲν τρόπον τινὰ μεθύουσιν οἱ νήφοντες τὰ ἀγαθὰ ἀθρόα ἠκρατισμένοι καὶ τὰς προπόσεις παρὰ τελείας ἀρετῆς δεξάμενοι... My translation: Yet indeed these sober ones truly are in some sense ‘drunk’, having mightily quaffed (ἠκρατισμένοι) from the Cup...

The Harvard Fraud is now playing the Woman Card: she's a "Victime" of Misogyny, Blame The Patriarchy. (Bet no one saw that coming, lol) https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/8/3/hbs-prof-lawsuit-data-fraud-defamation/ The suit also alleges discrimination on the basis of gender, claiming ...

So what are the Soviet animals up to this month? https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/90232 It was Sergei Karaganov, honorary chairman of Russia’s Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, who kicked off the debate. In an article published in the middle of June, he contended that “this military opera...

The blanket assumption that "Judaism" is/was a SINGLE unitary belief system -- without divergences, competing interests/factions/theologies, local peculiarities across vast distances of the Diaspora -- is totally illogical, refuted by archaeological evidence, etc., etc. Philo attests to he...

We are looking for the earliest physical evidence for gnostic manuscripts dude. No. Intaglios are real, they are evidence: you cannot wish them away. Reread the OP. Nothing limits us to discussing the NHL or whatever you choose. But therein lies the problem: you live in a land of make-believe, sham...

'Everything goes back to Plato' and 'everything goes back to Plotinus' is rubbish make-believe, pure idiocy. Reductionism (of complex socio-cultural phenom) to a prime is literally the stupidest conclusion you can make, ever. The insistent tendency is childish, superstitious, moronic, mentally-ill: ...

Princeton Museum , Greek, Gnostic gem. Black haematite, 4.1 x 2.3 cm. Museum purchase (y1942-58): https://64.media.tumblr.com/d9dd51cb9fa231065c1fe7fc63d0db61/tumblr_ojeaffZtGV1r0h08no1_1280.jpg I am curious about this janus-faced god with two- or three sets of wings. Isaiah 6:2: Above Him stood se...