Do not ask why former times were better than the present. It is not wisdom that prompts such a question.
Do not be over-righteous or excessively wise, lest you harm yourself. Do not be too wicked or too stupid, lest you die before your time.It is well to hold to one and not to loosen your grasp on the other. The God-fearing man copes with both.
See what I discovered: God made man simple, but they get lost in their many thoughts.
For my other readers: Frank comes from YIMCatholic, and a former Marine.
I like to think of him the way Beregond depicted Faramir in J. R. R. Tolkien's Return of the King:
"...in these days men are slow to believe that a captain can be wise and learned in the scrolls of lore and song, as he is, and yet a man of hardihood and swift judgement in the field."
"Long after completing The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien would write that of all characters Faramir resembles the author most, and that he had deliberately bestowed upon the character several traits of his own."
You do me a kindness, Athos. May I ever remain faithful to the King, and be wary of temptations of the Ring...
Do not ask why former times were better than the present. It is not wisdom that prompts such a question.
ReplyDeleteDo not be over-righteous or excessively wise, lest you harm yourself. Do not be too wicked or too stupid, lest you die before your time.It is well to hold to one and not to loosen your grasp on the other. The God-fearing man copes with both.
See what I discovered: God made man simple, but they get lost in their many thoughts.
All from Ecclesiastes, chapter 7.
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Ah, the Wisdom Books and Qoheleth. Great, Frank.
ReplyDeletePerhaps the RSV version of Psalm 50,9a is apropos too:
I will accept no bull from your house ...
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LOL...;)
ReplyDeleteFor my other readers: Frank comes from YIMCatholic, and a former Marine.
ReplyDeleteI like to think of him the way Beregond depicted Faramir in J. R. R. Tolkien's Return of the King:
"...in these days men are slow to believe that a captain can be wise and learned in the scrolls of lore and song, as he is, and yet a man of hardihood and swift judgement in the field."
"Long after completing The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien would write that of all characters Faramir resembles the author most, and that he had deliberately bestowed upon the character several traits of his own."
ReplyDeleteYou do me a kindness, Athos. May I ever remain faithful to the King, and be wary of temptations of the Ring...