Actually in the whole wide field of the holy scriptures we are nourished by the passages that are clear, exercised by those that are obscure; the first kind relieve us from hunger, the second save us from boredom.
In omni quippe copia Scripturarum sanctarum pascimur apertis, exercemur obscuris; illic fames pellitur, hic fastidium.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Wednesday, December 27, 2023
Holy Scriptures
Augustine, Sermons 71.11 (Patrologia Latina, vol. 38, col. 450 = Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina, vol. XLI A, p. 405; tr. Edmund Hill):