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Anonymous ID: bf0515 Jan. 1, 2022, 5:28 p.m. No.15292952   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2987

Do double Meanings Exist?

 

The Latin Church instituted THE FEAST OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS circa the 5th Century AD to 'remember' the infants 'martyred' throughout the land by decree of King Herod who feared the birth of the King of the Jews.

 

Could/should we see St Augustine in with a different lens (mirror)?

 

Per Augustine:

 

“Blessed are you, Bethlehem in the land of Judah! You suffered the inhumanity of King Herod in the murder of your babes and thereby have become worthy to offer to the Lord a pure host of infants. In full right do we celebrate the heavenly birthday of these children whom the world caused to be born unto an eternally blessed life rather than that from their mothers’ womb, for they attained the grace of everlasting life before the enjoyment of the present. The precious death of any martyr deserves high praise because of his heroic confession; the death of these children is precious in the sight of God because of the beatitude they gained so quickly. For already at the beginning of their lives they pass on. The end of the present life is for them the beginning of glory. These then, whom Herod’s cruelty tore as sucklings from their mothers’ bosom, are justly hailed as “infant martyr flowers” ; they were the Church’s first blossoms, * matured by the frost of persecution during the cold winter of unbelief.” Saint Augustine

 

  • cf. nut/slave/fruit + gardens/orchards

** cf. deflower;nip-in-bud (further, what is the "fleur-de-lis"?)

 

I try to ask, Cui bono?

And additionally, Quid sit bonum?

Anonymous ID: bf0515 Jan. 1, 2022, 5:37 p.m. No.15292994   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3007

Herod was "terrified" upon hearing of the birth of the King of the Jews. Standard Biblical history texts always ascribe the fear to his concern that Jews under his rule already disdained him and that his scepter would be threatened should a rival authority rise to embolden Jews in his kingdom. But what is never explored is the another, probably better, source of Herod's terror. He believed in the power of prophecy. The distinction is important because it converts Herod's motivation from a "secular" historical reading, ascribing purely "political" motives, to a spiritual reading, ascribing it to the forces and faith in the supernatural. In the eyes of a "spiritualist", Herod was a "pagan" in the truest sense of the term, worshiping and being influenced/guided by (dark) supernatural forces. In short, this is evidence of a battle between legions of Satan and God's loving plan. Christians might consider seeing Herod in a new light too: "Aleister Crowley, eat your heart out"?