He [Satan] will set up a counter-Church which will be the ape of the Church because he, the devil, is the ape of God.On the history of the expression "Diabolus simia Dei," see Anthony Ossa-Richardson, The Devil's Tabernacle: The Pagan Oracles in Early Modern Thought (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013), pp. 65-71.
"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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Saturday, September 12, 2026
God's Ape
At Father John Zuhlsdorf's blog, I saw the following quotation from Bishop Fulton Sheen: