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Augustine: By the words, one iota or one point shall not pass from the Law, we must understand only a strong metaphor of completeness, drawn from the letters of writing, iota being the least of the letters, made with one stroke of the pen, and a point being a slight dot at the end of the same letter. The words there show that the Law shall be ...
The Cardinal's line in Act II, scene II, was more fully: [3] True,—This! Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold The arch-enchanters wand!— itself a nothing!— But taking sorcery from the master-hand To paralyse the Cæsars—and to strike The loud earth breathless!—Take away the sword—
The more things change, the more they stay the same; The only disability in life is a bad attitude – Scott Hamilton; The only way to understand a woman is to love her; The old wooden spoon beats me down; The only way to find a friend is to be one; The pen is mightier than the sword; The pot calling the kettle black
David Hill notes that while labourers would frequently have more than one employer, it was impossible for a slave to have two masters and the author of Matthew may have chosen the slave metaphor as the clearer one. [3] However, Morris notes that Acts 16:16 mentions a slave with more than one master. What Jesus is noting is not a legal ...
Omnipotence, they say, does not mean that God can do anything at all but, rather, that he can do anything that is logically possible; he cannot, for instance, make a square circle. Likewise, God cannot make a being greater than himself, because he is, by definition, the greatest possible being. God is limited in his actions to his nature.
[15] God exhausts what it means to be God and, in principle, there cannot be more than one God. [2] Divine simplicity is fundamentally about God's attributes: his nature or essence. The doctrine does not state that God cannot have the "property" of creating a universe. [2] [14]
These laws were the Ten Commandments delivered to Moses on two stone tablets. The first and most important commandment was that they must not worship any god other than the Lord. [3] [12] Whoever violated this commandment should be killed [13] and Exodus 22:20 reads "Whoever sacrifices to any god other than the Lord must be destroyed."
God. Existential premiss g = def !x. ~ ∃ y. y ≥ x God is the only one thing greater than. which cannot be conceived. Definition, stipulating uniqueness ∀x. x ∈ P & ∃y. T(y, ‘x’) ⊇ x ∈ I What is said and understood is in the mind. Assumption, on T def., g ∈ I What is understood by the Fool of the. definition is in his intellect.