2 My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. 2 For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, 3 and if you pay attention to the one who wears the Continue Reading
Sunday Sonnet.
The paraphrase that Locke did continues. Locke is working on the following verse Cast me not away from your presence/ and take not your Holy Spirit from me. (Ps 51:11, ESV). Sprite, to Locke, was used as we would use spirit, and the remainder of the text is fairly clear. Loe prostrate, Lorde, before thy Continue Reading
Sunday 14 July 19
25 And a lawyer stood up and put Him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” 26 And He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How does it read to you?” 27 And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all Continue Reading
The decline of the woke number 59.
Shot. Not too long ago, conventional wisdom held that the internet should enjoy minimal government oversight precisely because it was a technology that enabled open and free speech for everyone. The remedy for hateful and offensive remarks, that 1990s-vintage argument went, was more speech—or logging off.This principle, which can be traced back through the writings Continue Reading
13 July 19
32 “‘Stand up in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly and revere your God. I am the Lord. 33 “‘When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. 34 The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. Continue Reading
Daybook.
I am putting my photos up at this site. It is still under construction, and will take a while to stabilize. In general, the photos I use here come from my phone. The photos there, however, are from trips with tripod, camera, and have been worked on. Our food budget is big. But our eating Continue Reading
12 July 19
9 “Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him 10 and rescued him from all his troubles. He gave Joseph wisdom and enabled him to gain the goodwill of Pharaoh king of Egypt. So Pharaoh made him ruler over Egypt and all his palace. 11 “Then Continue Reading
Removing deceased apple icloud accounts.
I have just been talking to the Apple helpline. If you inherit from a deceased relative their ipad/iphone and you want to factory reset it you are, simply, out of luck. All devices are locked to icloud accounts and it is very hard to impossible to remove them. This is normally a good thing — Continue Reading
11 July 19
Faith and Works14 What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,” and yet Continue Reading
Canto II
More Pound, and at this point you need to know your way around the poets of his time, and it helps if you have some of the clues. Sordello was Browning’s long poem,, that took seven years. The cantos, however, took most of Pound’s life, and in my view were never finished. Extract Book the Continue Reading
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