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June 19, 2006
old fashioned polemics
I found my new favourite retort today while reading Hulrych Zwingli ("The Defense of the Reformed Faith", 1523, art.18). Zwingli:
"At this point the papists drop a red herring [loose translation!] by saying, 'The mass has the name missa not in vain, for it is a Hebrew term missah which means a gift or a sacrifice. Hence the mass is said to be a sacrifice. My response: You wicked devil of mammon; how hard it is to get you to yield."
I think I'll save that one to use at the defence of my thesis. "You don't like my work?..."
| By j and b | 04:14 PM
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Let me know how it goes..I'm going to start a book of such quotes and responses so that during any such oral exam I can pull it out--thanks for that!
Posted by: joe at June 19, 2006 07:09 PM