tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post6111012585708376512..comments2023-06-01T09:22:18.917+01:00Comments on Liturgiae Causa: Seneca...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-15620952457211444462011-11-27T19:28:29.023+00:002011-11-27T19:28:29.023+00:00πάντες γὰρ ἥμαρτον καὶ ὑστεροῦνται τῆς δόξης τοῦ θ...πάντες γὰρ ἥμαρτον καὶ <a href="http://goo.gl/ihKFj" rel="nofollow">ὑστεροῦνται</a> τῆς δόξης τοῦ θεοῦ (Romans 3:23)<br /><br />Despite the better advice of the <i>LSJ</i>, perhaps ὑστεροῦνται is better translated "are asynchronous". All humanity is doomed to lag behind in His creative narrative because of concupiscence. Perhaps our lives are badly dubbed films, where the dubbed dialogue is always a second slower than the lines. In this case the superimposition of another interpretation is patently contrived. Read lips betray an entirely different message. <br /><br />If the koine aorist ἥμαρτον is read in the sense of the Attic noun ἁμαρτία, one could also say that the asynchrony of human conduct and thought before God is an inherent self-defeating defect. Because we are habitual sinners, we cannot see the defects of our slap-dash distortions of God's creative narrative without justification. <br /><br />Patricius: "When I stand before the just Judge on the Day of Judgement, will it avail me to say to Him: ''I was traditional in that respect,'' when I live in the knowledge that my life is a great moral vacuum?"<br /><br />And so? We are all morally vacuous, out of step, vain and ready to trip and fall. What will we be willing do in His name at the "<a href="http://goo.gl/GeiwM" rel="nofollow">Damascus of my meeting</a>"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com