What intelligence! What scholarship! It takes educated wits to believe such things about Christ, while refusing to believe in Christ.

-St. Augustine, City of God

(b. 18, ch 54)

“Beware of young women who love neither wine nor truffles nor cheese nor music.”

-Colette

A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom–he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.

-E.B. White

• I put up the book reports sent to me at www.nsa.foucachon.com/book.html I will put yours up when you send it to me.

  -Daniel (Daniel@foucachon.com)

• UPDATE: I have added book reports, so check back. And please send me yours if you haven’t already. please 🙂

I found most of next week’s essays on the internet. The only one I couldn’t find was Warfield’s On the Antiquity and the Unity of the Human Race.
This one can be found in The Works of Benjamin Warfield Vol.9.

• Meredith G. Kline’s Space and Time in the Genesis Cosmology, can be found at: http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF3-96Kline.html.
• The other Meredith Kline essay, Because it had Rained can be found at: htttp://www.asa3.org/ASA/resources/WTJ/WTJ58Kline.html.
• Because it had Not Rained (Futato) can be found at: http://www.thirdmill.org/files/english/theology/92974~9_27_99_7-13-34_PM~TH.Futato.Rained.1.pdf.

  I hope this helps.

  -Ashley Beck

The Lord’s Table

The Table of the Lord humbles the honest, comforts the distraught, forgives the repentant, nourishes the hungry, establishes the church, preaches the gospel, summons the world, and overwhelms the devil.

And of course the Table as a mere set of physical objects does none of those things—any more than the Word of God, considered simply as paper and ink, does such things.

When the preached Word pierces the heart of a treacherous or hypocritical Christian, and he repents, no one thinks to attribute the power of the Word to the fact that it was leather-bound, and When some poor forsaken sinner picks up a Gideon Bible in a hotel somewhere, and turns to Christ, no one thinks it was the power of the binding, or paper, or publishing house. We attribute it all to the power and goodness of God, who moves and works through such things.

In the same way, as the Supper of the Lord deals with us—rebuking us, strengthening us, admonishing us, revealing our sin, establishing us in love for one another—no one in their right mind would attribute the power of this to the grocery store where we bought the wine, or the bakery where we obtained the bread. And neither is the power to be found in the bread or the wine. These things correspond exactly to the paper and ink of the Scriptures.

What are they apart from faith? The letter kills, but the Spirit brings life. Words as words bring nothing but condemnation. Bread as bread, wine as mere wine, are nothing but a ministry of death. What are they apart from faith alone? They are nothing but increasing condemnation.

As so, as children of faith, you are summoned to come. You are summoned so that your evangelical faith would be nourished and strengthened by the bread and wine, not replaced by the bread and wine. When faith comes to the Table, faith is always an essential part of the picture.

–Doug Wilson September 4th, 2005

This is a really good tool, especially for the true begginers like me:

http://cheiron.humanities.mcmaster.ca/latin/

and here is another great tool:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/morphindex?lang=la

“And yet, will we ever come to an end of discussion and talk if we think we must always reply to replies?”

St. Augustine, City of God

It is quite likely that most of the first fifteen presidents of the United States would not have been recognized had they passed the average citizen in the street… to think about those men was to think about what they had written, to judge them by their public positions, their arguments, their knowledge as codified in the printed word.”

-Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death

“An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say ‘Gentlemen’ to the person with whom he is conversing.”

-Alexis de Tocqueville

“The invention of firearms equalized the vassal and the noble on the field of battle; the art of printing opened the same resources to the minds of all classes; the post brought knowledge alike to the door of the cottage and to the gate of the palace.”

-Alexis de Tocqueville

“The poorest labourer upon the shore of the Delaware thinks himself entitled to deliver his sentiment in matters of religion or politics with as much freedom as the gentleman or scholar… Such is the preavailing taste for books of every kind, that almost every man is a reader.”

-1772, Jacob Duche
quoted by Neil Postman in his book, Amusing ourselves to Death

Fellow Freshmen, I thought this blog may be a useful and fun means of communication on which we can give updates, post announcements, discuss homework or assigments, post pictures of school events, etc. Anyone can easily comment, and if you didn’t get an invitation to be a blog member (to be able to post), email me at daniel@foucachon.com .

if you want your url added, or have a suggestion for the layout etc., make sure and tell me.

Have a good weekend!

-Daniel Foucachon

Hello Fellow Freshman, this is the first post just to try things out.

“We seek him here, we seek him there,
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
Is he in heaven?–Is he in hell?
That demmed elusive Pimpernel.

Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

SONNET 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

-Shakespeare

“The carnal mind sees God in nothing, not even in spiritual things, THe spiritual mind sees Him in everything, even in natural things….”
-Robert Leighton

“As the apple is not the cause of the apple tree, but a fruit of it: even so good works are not the cause of our savlation, but a sign and fruit of the same.”
-Daniel Cawdray

“Take God into thy counsel. Heaven overlooks hell. God at any time can tell thee what plots are hatching there against thee.”
-William Gurnall

“If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy.”
-Thomas Brooks

Pray often; for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
-John Bunyan