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Vatican II Collection: Dei Verbum
Word on Fire’s Vatican II Collection is probably the best way to read documents from the council. It’s scattered with reflections and explanations, including excerpts from related encyclicals. It all helps better understand what’s going on. Though the council’s documents are available online, this is a much easier version to digest. (and the design is… Continue reading
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The Wars of the Jews
(Part 1: The Antiquities of the Jews) The second half of Josephus’s Complete Works gets to the real gritty parts of history. Antiquities is Israel’s historical record, but The Wars of the Jews is something completely different. There is some overlap at first. Wars was written first, so it’s not chronological. There are some mentions… Continue reading
And they said to him, “Inquire of God, we pray thee, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed.”
And the priest said to them, “Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the LORD.”
—Judges 18:5–6