THE SPIRIT KILLETH, BUT THE LETTER GIVETH LIFE.A review of the book "Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts," by Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner is presented.PosnerRichardA.New Republic
The law given at Sinai is the "ministration of death," and is contrasted with the "ministration of the Spirit"--the letter that killeth with the Spirit that giveth life. (Comp. also Galatians 4:24-26, and Hebrews 12:18-24.) The word "specially" is not in the Hebrew of this ...
And this mattereth little, for it is not thou, so be that thou adhere to the Letter of thine Obligation. For thy Spiritual Sight is closed, and to trust it is to be led unto the precipice, and hurled therefrom. 29. Further of this matter. Now also subtler than all these terrors ...
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“I know how to be a whore and thief” The poet’s reputation: troubadours – ancestors of poètes maudits? Chapter 3. The Law – Letter and Spirit: Language, Transgression and Justice In Three Medieval German Epic Poems Chapter 4. Crime, Punishment and the Hybrid in Medieval French ...
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14 ¶ So Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the Lord, and Hezekiah spread it before the [cn]Lord. 15 And Hezekiah [co]prayed before the Lord, and said, O Lord God of Israel, which dwellest between the ...
A ruined earh: The final image ofPlanet of the Apes(1968). In the Year of our Lord 2024, a decisive majority of Americans have chosen to blow up democracy, the rule of law, the common good, civil liberty, women’s rights, health care, international stability, public sanity, and our ...
Define Decalogue. Decalogue synonyms, Decalogue pronunciation, Decalogue translation, English dictionary definition of Decalogue. or Dec·a·log n. 1. Bible The Ten Commandments. 2. A fundamental set of rules having authoritative weight. American Heritag
As midnight fast approaches, I don’t have much to add, except a few lines from W. H. Auden’sNew Year Letter (January 1940). Written in search of a foundation for living amid amid the chaos of war and the collapse of the known order nearly a century ago, some of it speaks directl...