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The Wheel, 2019
THE WHEEL 16 (WINTER 2019): ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN AND OLIVIER CLÉMENT
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Our city is full dead people… the dead change the whole aspect of the city. Everywhere you go mem... more Our city is full dead people… the dead change the whole aspect of the city. Everywhere you go memory produces in you hallucinations of the smell of incense… Paper with names on it covers the top of the narrow credence table, under the "spitted lamb", the Christ of His final humiliation.
In ancient Greece the olive was called ἔλαιος . The first word I learned in Greek was ἔλεος, merc... more In ancient Greece the olive was called ἔλαιος . The first word I learned in Greek was ἔλεος, mercy. These two words are nearly identical. Similar, sound the same, and the way they roll across my tongue causes me to think that they share a common root. I was told that it is a coincidence; scholars say that it is an accident of fate; I don't tell the scholars that I do not believe in fate. Perhaps lost in pre-history, hidden from the scholar's gaze there is a word from which both oil and mercy were born. Olive and mercy… ἔλαιος and ἔλεος.
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The mystery of the Incarnation of the Logos is the key to all the arcane symbolism and typology o... more The mystery of the Incarnation of the Logos is the key to all the arcane symbolism and typology of the Scriptures, and in addition gives us knowledge of created things, both visible and intelligible. He who apprehends the mystery of the cross and the burial apprehends the inward essences of created things; while he who is initiated into the inexpressible power of the resurrection apprehends the purpose for which God first established everything.-Saint Maximos the Confessor
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