Good Samaritan – Locus Communis

The man who here lies half dead, wounded and stripped of his clothing, is Adam and all mankind.

The man who here lies half dead, wounded and stripped of his clothing, is Adam and all mankind. The murderers are the devils who robbed and wounded us, and left us lying prostrate half dead. We still struggle a little for life; but there lies horse and man, we cannot help ourselves to our feet,Continue reading “The man who here lies half dead, wounded and stripped of his clothing, is Adam and all mankind.”

The Cause of the Leper

And it occurs to me that Jesus couldn’t have cared less about the cause of the leper or the rights of the leper. But when there was a leper in his path he did not walk around him, like the priest walking on the opposite side of the road from the man set upon byContinue reading “The Cause of the Leper”