"Just as at the sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a clear sign, on seeing a tall beacon light or some mountain peak coming into view, so Scripture may guide those adrift on the sea of life back into the harbor of the divine will" - St. Gregory of Nyssa
In Origen, the sea is Scripture…
ReplyDeleteThere's your 'consensus' of the fathers at work again ;)
ReplyDeleteactually, it's more of a dialogue. Balthasar points out that a great portion of the breviary is passages of other authors repeating things from Origen.
ReplyDeleteI'll have to read some Origen then.
ReplyDeleteSorry for being a jerk.