The Republic had no fiercer bogeyman than the pale-skinned, horse-maned, towering Gaul. Hannibal might have ridden up to Rome’s gates and flung his javelin over them, but he had never succeeded in capturing the seat of the Republic. Only the Gauls had managed that. Way back, at the beginning of the fourth century BC, a barbarian horde had burst without warning across the Alps, sent a Roman army fleeing from it in panic, and swept into Rome.
Tom Holland, Rubicon, 234.
O Socii, tomorrow is a great and honourable day. It is a day in which we can put to use our right as citizens of the Unitest States of America to elect our leaders. In days past leaders were often chosen through strength of arms. Men proved their courage on the battle field, fighting for their king, that they might live peaceful lives under their king. We have no bloody battle field on which to pour our blood and prove our valor, but we do have the Moscow Skating Rink, and tomorrow from 8 to 8. May it not be said of the students of New Saint Andrews col
lege that they did not bother to go out and vote.
If you are unsure of who to vote for, here is a good guide:
Right-Mind (Dale Courtney)
Doug Wilson
See you at the Polls!
Homo proponit, sed Deus disponit. O Socii, Proponite!
Love will ascend in unexpected ways
Like the heart-throbbing gleam of the moon’s
Bright rays, as it touches your
Heart… slowly… the flame starts to glow as
Your heart starts to know of a growing
Devotion that will transform and transplant
You; to become one in soul–a rare treasure
Most forgotten, to share common passions
And share the same view, and sharing one
Father; these things will fast mend any
Disparity between me and you.
The outwardly perfect match is irrelevent,
Indeed when two hearts remain forever divided
In two. But if each heart may be willing to
Give unhindered to the other, then those
Two shall forever be true.
Such love remains my oriflamme;
This is my wish–it is now what I am.>
~Deborah Ruth Foucachon (2003)
A few great quotes I borrowed from Liz Callihan’s blog.
Life
Friendship
Love
Humility
Subsequent religious tradition has by and large encouraged us to take the Bible seriously rather than to enjoy it, but the paradoxical truth of the matter may well be that by learning to enjoy the biblical stories more fully as stories, we shall also come to see more clearly what they mean to tell us about God, man, and the perilously momentous realm of history.
-Robert Alter, The Art of Biblical Narrative,189.
Soldiers and comrades in this adventure, I hope that none of you in our present strait will think to show his wit by exactly calculating all the perils that encompass us, but that you will rather hasten to close with the enemy, without staying to weigh the odds, seeing in this your best chance of safety. In emergencies like ours calculation is out of place; the sooner the danger is face the better.
-Demosthenes, Thucydides, IV.10
Madames et Monsieurs,
it is my supreme privilege to present to you
the photos of The New Saint Andrews 2006 Reformation Banquet
www.danielfoucachon.com/nsa/nsa_reformation_06/
If perchants there be a lady among you,
who upon seeing a distressing photo
wishest that photo to be removed,
there existeth a solution.
http://www.foucachon.com/complaint_form
If there be a gentleman among you,
who upon seeing a photo is distressed,
get over it.
Symbolism, then, is not some secondary concern, some mere curiosity. In a very real sense, symbolism is more important than anything else for the life of man. As we have seen, the doctrine of creation means that every created item, and also the created order as a whole, reflects the character of the God who created it. In other words, everything in the creation, and the creation as a whole, points to God. Everything is a sign or symbol of God.
-James Jordan, Through New Eyes, 30.
Students and Prospective Students, Hear ye, hear ye,
During Reformation week and Prospective Student Weekend, NSA will be holding events in which students can interact with prospective students.
On Saturday, Oct. 28th:
So try to carve a few hours out of your schedule to enjoy the outdoors and meet the new Freshman class!
Greetings class,
I jotted some notes while reading On the Origins of War. If they would be of use to you, you can find them HERE.
I have two videos for you. One of Handermann blitzing through the Greco-Persian war in 120 seconds, and one of Lydia doing a more detailed version in 4 minutes.
Blessings on you studying!
Always to be a theist in the full and true sense of the word, that is, to see God’s counsel and hand and work in all things and simultaneously, indeed fro that very reason, to develop all available energies and gifts to the highest level of activity–that is the glory of the Christ faith and the secret of the Christian life.
Bavinck, God and Creation, 605
Now, Christian theology by no means opposes the idea that all things were known and determined by God from eternity. To that extent it even recognized a “fate,” and some theologians believed they could also use the word in a good sense. If we remember, says Augustine, that fatum is a derivative of fari and then describe by means of it the eternal and unchanging word by which God sustains all things, the name can be justified. Boethius referred to fate as “a disposition inherent in changeable things by which Providence connects all things in their due order.”
-Bavinck, God and Creation, 600.
“Fate” could, in a pinch, still have a good meaning in the Christian world-and-life view; but chance (casus) and fortune (fortuna) are un-Christian through and through.
-ibid, 603.
A knight must have no calling or science other than: arms, lady, and conscience.
-Guillaume de Machaut, c 1340
“[The book of Psalms] heals the ancient wounds of souls and to the newly wounded brings prompt relief; it ministers to what is sick and preserves that is in health; and it wholly removes the ills, howsoever great and of whatsoever kind, that attack souls in our human life; and this by means of a certain well-timed persuasions which inspires wholesome reflection.”
For when the Holy Spirit saw that mankind was ill-inclined toward virtue and that we were heedless of the righteous life because of our inclination to pleasure, what did He do? He blended the delight of melody with doctrine in order that through the pleasantness and softness of the sound we might unawares receive what was useful in the words, according to the practice of wise physicians, who, when they give the more bitter draughts to the sick, often smear the rim of the cup with honey. For this purpose these harmonious melodies of the Psalms have been designed for us, that those who are of boyish age or wholly youthful in their character, while in appearance they sing, may in reality be educating their souls. For hardly a single one of the many, and even of the indolent, has gone away retaining in his memory any precept of the apostles or of the prophets, but the oracles of the Psalms they both sin at home and disseminate in the market place. And if somewhere one who rages like a wild beast from excessive anger falls under the spell of the psalm, he straightway departs, with the fierceness of his soul calmed by the melody.
A psalm is the tranquility of souls, the arbitrator of peace, restraining the disorder and turbulence of thoughts, for it softens the passion of the soul, and moderates its unruliness. A psalm forms friendships, unites the divided, mediates between enemies. For who can still consider him an enemy with whom he has sent forth one voice to God? So that the singing of psalms bring love, the greatest of good things, contriving harmony like some bond of union and uniting the people in the symphony of a single coir.
A Psalm drives away demons, summons the help of angels, furnishes arms against nightly terrors, and gives respite from daily toil; to little children it is safety, to men in their prime an adornment, to the old a solace, to woman their most fitting ornament. It peoples solitudes, it chastens market places. To beginners it is a beginning; to those who are advancing, an increase; to those who are concluding, a support. A psalm is the voice of the church. It gladdens feast days; it creates the grief which is in accord with God’s will, for a psalm brings a tear even from a heart of stone.
A psalm is the work of angels, the ordinance of Heaven, the incense of the Spirit. Oh, the wise invention of the teacher who devised who we might at the same time sing and learn profitable things, whereby doctrines are somehow more deeply impressed up the mind!”
– St. Basil
c. 370 AD
Lyon marchant assis en son hault throne
Ayant le chef de haulx monts couronné
Comme Corinthe est de deux mers : du Rhodne
Et de la Saone il est environné
De grand beaultez, & de richesse orné
Gardant du cueur de l’Europe l’entrée
Et marchissant sur diverse contrée
Qui n’est Lyon ne passant, ne couchant
Rampant, grippant sa proye rencontree
Mais devant tous est le Lyon marchant.Merchant Lyons, seated on its high throne,
Crowned by the lofty mountains,
Like Corinth, encompassed by two seas—
The Rhône and the Saône.
Decorated with great beauty and richness,
Guarding the entrance to the heart of Europe
And bounding on diverse coutries.
‘Tis a Lion not passant or couchant, but
Rampant, gripping any pray it encounters:
Above all others strides merchant Lyons.
~B Aneau,
(taken from Music in Renaissance Lyons, Dobbins, 65)
Lyon Marchant: Satyre Francoise. Sur la comparaison de Paris, Rohan, Lyon, Orleans et sur les choses memorables depuys Lan 1524. Soubz Allegories & Enighmes par personnages mystiques jouée au Collège de la Trinité à Lyon, 1541
Greetings!
I’m not sure if I sent the right file yesterday for the Ancient Greece google earth map. But here is the one Scott put together, and it is complete as far as I know:
And here are some online outlines of Herodotus:
Blessings on your studies!
-Daniel
A rabbi, a priest, and a pastor enter a bar. The bar tender sees them come in and asks them, “What’s this, a joke?”
–Dr. Leithart, Theology, Jerusalem Term, New Saint Andrews
Yes, they are finally here. This is what happens when you get a whole school of classically educated people (well, under construction that is) together and try to take a picture of them: