@daffidavit wrote: "Through a mirror darkly." That's right David, with the 13th Ophiuchan Apostle Paul's 1 Corinthians 13:12 being a gloss of the far earlier Allegory of the Cave from Plato's Republic circa 375 BCE. [ Corinthians 13:12] For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. Let me know if you have any reason to doubt this assertion from either me or from the one who kicks against the goads. ;)
David, as I mention above, the author(s) behind the character of Paul use this reference in 1st Corinthians 13:12 to teach on Plato's Allegory of the Cave... featured in his 375 BCE dialogue The Republic. Roughly how old were you when you became aware of this fact?
@daffidavit wrote: "Through a mirror darkly."
That's right David, with the 13th Ophiuchan Apostle Paul's 1 Corinthians 13:12 being a gloss of the far earlier Allegory of the Cave from Plato's Republic circa 375 BCE.
[ Corinthians 13:12]
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood.
Let me know if you have any reason to doubt this assertion from either me or from the one who kicks against the goads. ;)
Through a mirror darkly.
David, as I mention above, the author(s) behind the character of Paul use this reference in 1st Corinthians 13:12 to teach on Plato's Allegory of the Cave... featured in his 375 BCE dialogue The Republic. Roughly how old were you when you became aware of this fact?