The Bruderhof have spoken...
The Bruderhof are whacky anabaptist types who fled Nazi Germany for Paraguay (Paraguay?! I know) and finally settled in the US. As anabaptists they are committed pacifists and tend to have an interesting spin on all things christian.
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----- Forwarded message from "contact@bruderhof.com"
Subject: Your Daily Dig from Bruderhof.com
Love Thy Neighbor
Origen
"How can you say, I have fulfilled the law and prophets, since it is written in the law:Jesus' first speech was not good news for property owners.Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself?Look, many of your brothers, sons of Abraham, are covered with filth and dying of hunger while your house is filled with many goods and not a thing goes out of it to them."
Source: "The Early Christians" edited by Eberhard Arnold.
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this story scribbled by jim at 11:59 pm
1 Comments:
Knew I liked Origen for a reason. This is a man who castrated himself so that he could work with female catechumens more effectively and be blameless. So his "house" really was filled with good things while not a thing went out of it to them... Te he.
Roland
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