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Homily LXXXV.
"Then delivered he Him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led Him away. And He, bearing His Cross, went forth into a place called the place of a skull,24712471 "place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew, Golgotha." N.T. where they crucified Him."24722472 "Him, and two others with Him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst." N.T.
[1.] Successes have terrible power to cast down or draw aside those who take not heed. Thus the Jews, who at first enjoyed the influence24732473 ῥ οπῆς of God, sought the law of royalty from the Gentiles, and in the wilderness after the manna remembered the onions. In the same way here, refusing the Kingdom of Christ, they invited to themselves that of Cæsar. Wherefore God set a king over them, according to their own decision. When then Pilate heard these things, he delivered Him to be crucified. Utterly without reason. For when he ought to have enquired whether Christ had aimed at sovereign power, he pronounced the sentence through fear alone. Yet that this might not befall him, Christ said beforehand, "My kingdom is not of this world"; 315 but he having given himself wholly up to present things, would practice no great amount of wisdom. And yet his wife's dream should have been sufficient to terrify him; but by none of these things was he made better, nor did he look to heaven, but delivered Him up. And now they laid the cross upon Him as a malefactor. For even the wood they abominated, and endured not even to touch it. This was also the case in the type; for Isaac bare the wood. But then the matter stopped at the will of his father,24742474 i.e. only showed Abraham's willingness. for it was the type; while here it proceeded to action, for it was the reality.
"And He came to the place of a skull." Some say that Adam died there, and there lieth; and that Jesus in this place where death had reigned, there also set up the trophy. For He went forth bearing the Cross as a trophy over the tyranny of death: and as conquerors do, so He bare upon His shoulders the symbol of victory. What matter if the Jews did24752475 al. "ordered." these things with a different intent. They crucified Him too with thieves, in this also unintentionally fulfilling prophecy; for what they did for insult contributed to the truth, that thou mayest learn how great is its power, since the Prophet had foretold of old, that "He was numbered with the transgressors." ( Isa. liii. 12.) The devil therefore wished to cast a veil over what was done, but was unable; for the three were crucified, but Jesus alone was glorious, that thou mayest learn, that His power effected all. Yet the miracles took place when the three had been nailed to the cross; but no one attributed anything of what was done to either of those others, but to Jesus only; so entirely was the plot of the devil rendered vain,24762476 ἕ ωλος, lit. "stale." and all returned upon his own head. For even of these two, one was saved. He therefore did not insult the glory of the Cross,24772477 al. "the Crucified." but contributed to it not a little. For it was not a less matter than shaking the rocks, to change a thief upon the cross, and to bring him unto Paradise.
Ver. 19. "And Pilate wrote a title."24782478 Ver. 19, 20. "And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the Cross, and the writing was, Jesus of Nazareth the King of the Jews. This title then read many of the Jews, for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city, and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin."
At the same time requiting the Jews, and making a defense for Christ. For since they had given Him up as worthless, and attempted to confirm this sentence by making Him share the punishment of the robbers, in order that for the future it might be in no man's power to prefer evil charges against him, or to accuse him as a worthless and wicked person, to close moreover their mouths and the mouths of all who might desire to accuse Him, and to show that they had risen up against their own King, Pilate thus placed, as on a trophy, those letters, which utter a clear voice, and show forth His Victory, and proclaim His Kingdom, though not in its completeness. And this he made manifest not in a single tongue, but in three languages; for since it was likely that there would be a mixed multitude among the Jews on account of the Feast, in order that none might be ignorant of the defense, he publicly recorded24792479 lit. "inscribed on a pillar." the madness of the Jews, in all the languages. For they bore malice against Him even when crucified.24802480 Ver. 21, 22. "Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews, but that he said, I am King of the Jews. Pilate answered, What I have written, I have written." N.T. "Yet what did this harm you?24812481 to the Jews. Nothing. For if He was a mortal and weak, and was about to become extinct, why did ye fear the letters asserting that He is the King of the Jews?" And what do they ask? "Say that 'he said.' For now it is an assertion, and a general sentence, but if 'he said' be added, the charge is shown to be one arising from his own rashness and arrogance." Still Pilate was not turned aside, but stood to his first decision. And it is no little thing that is dispensed even from this circumstance, but the whole matter. For since the wood of the cross was buried, because no one was careful to take it up, inasmuch as fear was pressing, and the believers were hurrying to other urgent matters; and since it was in after times to be sought for, and it was likely that the three crosses would lie together, in order that the Lord's might not be unknown, it was made manifest to all, first by its lying in the middle, and then by the title. For those of the thieves had no titles.
[2.] The soldiers parted the garments, but not the coat.24822482 Ver. 23, 24. "Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also His coat; now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be, that the Scripture might be fulfilled which saith, They parted My raiment among them, and for My vesture they did cast lots." N.T. See the prophecies in every instance fulfilled by their wickednesses; for this also had been predicted of old; yet there were three crucified, but the matters of the prophecies24832483 al. "of the prophetical." were fulfilled in Him. For why did they not this in the case of the others, but in His case only? Consider too, I pray you, the exactness of the prophecy. For the Prophet saith not only, that they "parted," but that they "did not part." The rest therefore they divided, the coat they divided not, but committed the matter to a decision by lot. And the, "Woven from the top" ( ver. 23 ) is not put without a purpose; but some say that a figurative assertion is declared by it, that the Crucified was not simply man, but had also the Divinity from above.24842484 or, "from the first," ἄ νωθεν Others say that the Evangelist describes the very form 316 of the coat.24852485 lit. "little coat." For since in Palestine they put together two strips of cloth and so weave their garments, John, to show that the coat was of this kind, saith, "Woven from the top"; and to me he seems to say this, alluding to the poorness of the garments, and that as in all other things, so in dress also, He followed a simple24862486 λιτόν fashion.
Ver. 24. "These things the soldiers did." But He on the Cross, committeth His mother to the disciple,24872487 Ver. 25–27. "Now there stood by the Cross of Jesus His mother, and His mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus therefore saw His mother, and the disciple standing by whom He loved, He saith unto His mother, Woman, behold thy son. Then saith He to the disciple, Behold thy mother. And from that hour that disciple took her to his own home." teaching us even to our last breath to show every care for our parents. When indeed she unseasonably troubled Him, He said, "Woman, what have I to do with thee?" ( c. ii. 4.) And, "Who is My mother?" ( Matt. xii. 48.) But here He showeth much loving affection, and committeth her to the disciple whom He loved. Again John conceals himself, in modesty; for had he desired to boast, he would have also put in the cause for which he was loved, since probably it was some great and wonderful one. But wherefore doth He converse on nothing else with John, nor comfort him when desponding? Because it was no time for comforting by words; besides, it was no little thing for him to be honored with such honor, and to receive the reward of steadfastness. But do thou consider, I pray, how even on the cross He did everything without being troubled, speaking with the disciple concerning His mother, fulfilling prophecies, holding forth good hopes to the thief. Yet before He was crucified He appeareth sweating, agonized, fearing. What then can this mean? Nothing difficult, nothing doubtful. There indeed the weakness of nature had been shown, here was being shown the excess of Power. Besides, by these two things He teacheth us, even if before things terrible we be troubled, not on that account to shrink from things terrible, but when we have embarked in the contest to deem all things24882488 al. "all things are." possible and easy. Let us then not tremble at death. Our soul hath by nature the love of life, but it lies with us either to loose the bands of nature, and make this desire weak; or else to tighten them, and make the desire more tyrannous. For as we have the desire of sexual intercourse, but when we practice true wisdom we render the desire weak, so also it falls out in the case of life; and as God hath annexed carnal desire to the generation of children, to maintain a succession among us, without however forbidding us from traveling the higher road of continence; so also He hath implanted in us the love of life, forbidding us from destroying ourselves, but not hindering our despising the present life. And it behooves us, knowing this, to observe due measure, and neither to go at any time to death of our own accord, even though ten thousand terrible things possess us; nor yet when dragged to it, for the sake of what is pleasing to God, to shrink back from and fear it, but boldly to strip for it, preferring the future to the present life.
But the women stood by the Cross, and the weaker sex then appeared the manlier ( ver. 25 ); so entirely henceforth were all things transformed.
[3.] And He, having committed His mother to John, said, "Behold thy Son." ( Ver. 26.) O the honor! with what honor did He honor the disciple! when He Himself was now departing, He committed her to the disciple to take care of. For since it was likely that, being His mother, she would grieve, and require protection, He with reason entrusted her to the beloved. To him He saith, "Behold thy mother." ( Ver. 27.) This He said, knitting them together in charity; which the disciple understanding, took her to his own home. "But why made He no mention of any other woman, although another stood there?" To teach us to pay more than ordinary respect to our mothers. For as when parents oppose us on spiritual matters, we must not even own them, so when they do not hinder us, we ought to pay them all becoming respect, and to prefer them before others, because they begat us, because they bred us up, because they bare for us ten thousand terrible things. And by these words He silenceth the shamelessness of Marcion; for if He were not born according to the flesh, nor had a mother, wherefore taketh He such forethought for her alone?
Ver. 28. "After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished."
That is, "that nothing was wanting to the Dispensation." For He was everywhere desirous to show, that this Death was of a new kind, if indeed the whole lay in the power of the Person dying, and death came not on the Body before He willed it; and He willed it after He had fulfilled all things. Therefore also He said, "I have power to lay down My life; and I have power to take it again." ( c. x. 18.) Knowing therefore that all things were fulfilled, He saith,
"I thirst."24892489 "that the Scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst," N.T.
Here again fulfilling a prophecy. But consider, I pray, the accursed nature of the bystanders. Though we have ten thousand enemies, and have suffered intolerable things at their hands, yet when we see them perishing, we relent; but they did not even so make peace with 317 Him, nor were tamed by what they saw, but rather became more savage, and increased their irony; and having brought to Him vinegar on a sponge,24902490 Ver. 29. "Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to His mouth." as men bring it to the condemned, thus they gave Him to drink; since it is on this account that the hyssop is added.
Ver. 30. "Having therefore received it, He saith, It is finished."
Seest thou how He doth all things calmly, and with power? And what follows shows this. For when all had been completed,
"He bowed His head, (this had not been nailed,) and gave up24912491 ἀ φῆκε, [παρέδωκε,] G. T. the ghost."
That is, "died." Yet to expire does not come24922492 i.e. naturally. after the bowing the head; but here, on the contrary, it doth. For He did not, when He had expired, bow His head, as happens with us, but when He had bent His head, then He expired. By all which things the Evangelist hath shown, that He was Lord of all.
But the Jews, on the other hand, who swallowed the camel and strained at the gnat, having wrought so atrocious a deed, are very precise concerning the day.
Ver. 31. "Because it was the Preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross24932493 "Upon the cross on the Sabbath day, (for that day was a high day.)" N.T. —they besought Pilate that their legs might be broken."24942494 "Be broken, and that they might be taken away." N.T.
Seest thou how strong a thing is truth? By means of the very things which are the objects of their zeal, prophecy is fulfilled, for by occasion of those things, this plain prediction, unconnected with them,24952495 ἑ τέρα αὐτοῖς αὕτη προαναφώνησῖς receives its accomplishment. For the soldiers24962496 Ver. 32–34. "Then came the soldiers and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus, and saw that He was dead already, they brake not His legs, but one of the soldiers with a spear pierced His side, and forthwith came thereout blood and water." N.T. when they came, brake the legs of the others, but not those of Christ. Yet these to gratify the Jews pierced His side with a spear, and now insulted the dead body. O abominable and accursed purpose! Yet, beloved, be not thou confounded, be not thou desponding; for the things which these men did from a wicked will, fought on the side of the truth. Since there was a prophecy, saying, (from this circumstance,24972497 ἐ ντεῦθεν "They shall look on Him whom they pierced." ( Ver. 37; Zech. xii. 10.) And not this only, but the deed then dared was a demonstration of the faith, to those who should afterwards disbelieve; as to Thomas, and those like him. With this too an ineffable mystery was accomplished. For "there came forth water and blood." Not without a purpose, or by chance, did those founts come forth, but because by means of these two together the Church consisteth.24982498 ἐ ξ ἀμφοτέρων τούτων ἡ ̓Εκκλησία συνέστηκε And the initiated know it, being by water indeed regenerate, and nourished by the Blood and the Flesh. Hence the Mysteries take their beginning; that24992499 i.e. to teach thee that. when thou approachest to that awful cup, thou mayest so approach, as drinking from the very side.
Ver. 35. "And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true."25002500 "is true; and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe," N.T.
That is, "I heard it not from others, but was myself present and saw it, and the testimony is true." As may be supposed. For he relates an insult done; he relates not anything great and admirable, that thou shouldest suspect his narrative; but securing the mouths of heretics, and loudly proclaiming beforehand the Mysteries that should be, and beholding the treasure laid up in them, he is very exact concerning what took place. And that prophecy also is fulfilled,
Ver. 36. "A bone of Him shall not be broken."25012501 Ver. 36, 37. "For these things were done, that the Scripture should be fulfilled, A bone," &c. "And again, another Scripture saith, They shall look on Him whom they pierced." N.T. ( Ex. xii. 46; Num. ix. 12.)
For even if this was said with reference to the lamb of the Jews, still it was for the sake of the reality that the type preceded, and in Him the prophecy was more fully accomplished. On this account the Evangelist brought forward the Prophet. For since by continually producing himself as witness he would have seemed unworthy of credit, he brings Moses to help him, and saith, that neither did this come to pass without a purpose, but was written before of old. And this is the meaning of the words, "A bone of Him shall not be broken." Again he confirms the Prophet's words by his own witness. "These things," saith he, "I have told you, that ye might learn that great is the connection of the type with the reality." Seest thou what pains he takes to make that believed which seemed to be matter of reproach, and bringing shame? For that the soldier should insult even the dead body, was far worse than being crucified. "But still, even these things," he saith, "I have told, and told with much earnestness, 'that ye might believe.' ( Ver. 35.) Let none then be unbelieving, nor through shame injure our cause. For the things which appear to be most shameful, are the very venerable records25022502 σεμνολογήματα of our good things."
Ver. 38. "After this came Joseph of Arimathæa, being a disciple."25032503 Ver. 38–40. "And after this Joseph of Arimathæa, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus. And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight. Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in the linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury."318
Not one of the twelve, but perhaps one of the seventy. For now deeming that the anger of the Jews was quenched by the Cross, they approached without fear, and took charge of His funeral. Joseph therefore came and asked the favor from Pilate, which he granted; why should he not? Nicodemus also assists him, and furnishes a costly burial. For they were still disposed to think of Him as a mere man. And they brought those25042504 al. "such." spices whose especial nature is to preserve the body for a long time, and not to allow it quickly to yield to corruption, which was an act of men imagining nothing great respecting Him; but anyhow, they exhibited very loving affection. But how did no one of the twelve come, neither John, nor Peter, nor any other of the more distinguished disciples? Nor doth the writer conceal this point. If any one say that it was from fear of the Jews, these men also 25052505 i.e. Joseph and Nicodemus. were occupied by the same fear; for Joseph too was, it saith, "A secret (disciple) for fear of the Jews." And not one can say that Joseph acted thus because he greatly despised them,25062506 al. "that the greatly despising them effected this." but though himself afraid, still he came. But John who was present, and had seen Him expire, did nothing of the kind. It seems to me that Joseph was a man of high rank, (as is clear from the funeral,) and known25072507 al. "known in some way." to Pilate, on which account also he obtained the favor; and then he buried Him, not as a criminal, but magnificently, after the Jewish fashion, as some great and admirable one.
[4.] And because they were straitened by the time, (since the Death took place at the ninth hour, and it is probable, that what with going to Pilate and what with taking down the body, evening would come upon them when it was not lawful to work,) they laid Him in the tomb that was near.25082508 Ver. 41, 42. "Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new sepulcher, wherein was never man yet laid. There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation; for the sepulcher was nigh at hand." And it is providentially ordered,25092509 lit. "dispensed." that He should be placed in a new tomb, wherein no one had been placed before, that His Resurrection might not be deemed to be that of some other who lay there with Him; and that the disciples might be able easily to come and be spectators of what came to pass, because the place was near; and that not they alone should be witnesses of His burial, but His enemies also, for the placing seals on the tomb, and the sitting by of the soldiers to watch it, were the actions of men testifying to the burial. For Christ earnestly desired that this should be confessed, no less than the Resurrection. Wherefore also the disciples are very earnest about this, the showing that He died. For the Resurrection all succeeding time would confirm, but the Death, if at that time it had been partially concealed, or not made very manifest, was likely to harm the account of the Resurrection. Nor was it for these reasons only that He was laid near, but also that the story about the stealing might be proved false.
"The first day of the week" (that is, the Lord's day) "cometh Mary Magdalene, very early in the morning,25102510 ὄ ρθρου βαθέος om. in Ben. N.T. "early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher and seeth," &c. and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulcher." ( Ch. xx. ver. 1.)
For He arose while both stone and seals lay over Him; but because it was necessary that others should be fully satisfied, the tomb was opened after the Resurrection, and thus what had come to pass was confirmed. This then was what moved Mary. For being entirely full of loving affection towards her Master, when the Sabbath was past, she could not bear to rest, but came very early in the morning, desiring to find some consolation from the place. But when she saw the place, and the stone25112511 al. "saw the stone." taken away, she neither entered in nor stooped down, but ran to the disciples,25122512 Ver. 2. "Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved." in the greatness of her longing; for this was what she earnestly desired, she wished very speedily to learn what had become of the body. This was the meaning of her running, and her words declare it.
Ver. 2. "They have taken away," she saith, "my Lord,25132513 "the Lord out of the sepulcher," N.T. and I know not where they have laid Him."
Seest thou how she knew not as yet anything clearly concerning the Resurrection, but thought there had been a removal of the body, and tells all simply to the disciples? And the Evangelist hath not deprived the woman of such a praise, nor thought it shame that they should have learnt these things first from her who had passed the night in watching. Thus everywhere doth the truth-loving nature of his disposition shine forth. When then she came and said these things, they hearing them, draw near with great eagerness to the sepulcher,25142514 Ver. 3–7. "Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulcher. So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulcher. And he stooping down, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in. Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulcher, and seeth the linen clothes lie; and the napkin that was about His head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself." N.T. and see the linen clothes lying, which was a sign of the Resurrection. For neither, if any persons had removed the body, would they before doing so have stripped it; nor if any had stolen it, would they have taken the trouble to remove the napkin, 319 and roll it up, and lay it in a place by itself; but how? they would have taken the body as it was. On this account John tells us by anticipation that it was buried with much myrrh, which glues linen to the body not less firmly than lead; in order that when thou hearest that the napkins lay apart, thou mayest not endure those who say that He was stolen. For a thief would not have been so foolish as to spend so much trouble on a superfluous matter. For why should he undo the clothes? and how could he have escaped detection if he had done so? since he would probably have spent much time in so doing, and be found out by delaying and loitering. But why do the clothes lie apart, while the napkin was wrapped together by itself? That thou mayest learn that it was not the action of men in confusion or haste, the placing some in one place, some in another, and the wrapping them together. From this they believed in the Resurrection. On this account Christ afterwards appeared to them, when they were convinced by what they had seen. Observe too here again the absence of boastfulness in the Evangelist, how he witnesses to the exactness of Peter's search. For he himself having gotten before Peter, and having seen the linen clothes, enquired not farther, but withdrew; but that fervent one passing farther in, looked at everything carefully, and saw somewhat more, and then the other too was summoned to the sight.25152515 Ver. 8, 9. "Then went in also that other disciple which came first to the sepulcher, and he saw, and believed. For as yet they knew not the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead." N.T. For he entering after Peter, saw the grave-clothes lying, and separate. Now to separate, and to place one thing by itself, and another, after rolling it up, by itself, was the act of some one doing things carefully, and not in a chance way, as if disturbed.
[5.] But do thou, when thou hearest that thy Lord arose naked, cease from thy madness about funerals; for what is the meaning of that superfluous and unprofitable25162516 al. "senseless." expense, which brings much loss to the mourners, and no gain to the departed, or (if we must say that it brings anything) rather harm? For the costliness of burial hath often caused the breaking open of tombs, and hath caused him to be cast out naked and unburied, who had been buried with much care. But alas for vainglory! How great the tyranny which it exhibits even in sorrow! how great the folly! Many, that this may not happen, having cut in pieces those fine clothes, and filled them with many spices, so that they may be doubly useless to those who would insult the dead, then commit them to the earth. Are not these the acts of madmen? of men beside themselves? to make a show of their ambition, and then to destroy it? "Yea," saith some one, "it is in order that they may lie safely with the dead that we use all these contrivances." Well then, if the robbers do not get them, will not the moths get them, and the worms? Or if the moths and worms get them not, will not time and the moisture of putrefaction25172517 ἰ χὼρ destroy them? But let us suppose that neither tomb-breakers, nor moths, nor worms, nor time, nor anything else, destroy what lies in the tomb, but that the body itself remains untouched until the Resurrection, and these things are preserved new and fresh and fine; what advantage is there from this to the departed, when the body is raised naked, while these remain here, and profit us nothing for those accounts which must be given? "Wherefore then," saith some one, "was it done in the case of Christ?" First of all, do not compare these with human matters, since the harlot poured even ointment upon His holy feet. But if we must speak on these things, we say, that they were done when the doers knew not the word of the Resurrection; therefore it saith, "As was the manner of the Jews." For they who honored Christ25182518 i.e. in His burial. were not of the twelve, but were those who did not honor Him greatly. The twelve honored Him not in this way, but by death and massacre and dangers for His sake. That other indeed was honor, but far inferior to this of which I have spoken. Besides, as I began by saying, we are now speaking of men, but at that time these things were done with relation to the Lord. And that thou mayest learn that Christ made no account of these things, He said, "Ye saw Me an hungered, and ye fed Me; thirsty, and ye gave Me drink; naked, and ye clothed Me" ( Matt. xxv. 35 ); but nowhere did He say, "dead, and ye buried Me." And this I say not as taking away the custom of burial, (that be far from me,) but as cutting short its extravagance and unseasonable vanity. "But," saith some one, "feeling and grief and sympathy for the departed persuade to this practice." The practice doth not proceed from sympathy for the departed, but from vainglory. Since if thou desirest to sympathize with the dead, I will show thee another way of mourning, and will teach thee to put on him garments which shall rise again with him, and make him glorious. For these garments are not consumed by worms, nor wasted by time, nor stolen by tomb-breakers. Of what sort then are these? The clothing of alms-doing; for this is a robe that shall rise again with him, because the seal of alms-doing is with him. With these garments shine they who then hear, "Hungering ye fed Me." These make men distinguished, these make them glorious, these place them in safety; but those used now are only something for moths to consume, and a table for worms. And this I say, not forbid 320 ding to use funeral observance, but bidding you to do it with moderation, so as to cover the body, and not commit it naked to the earth. For if living He biddeth us have no more than enough to cover us, much more when dead; since the dead body25192519 al. "body of the dead." hath not so much need of garments as when it is living and breathing. For when alive, on account of the cold, and for decency's sake, we need the covering of garments, but when dead we require grave-clothes for none of these reasons, but that the body may not lie naked; and better than grave-clothes we have the earth, fairest of coverings, and more suited for the nature of such bodies as ours. If then where there are so many needs we must not search for anything superfluous, much more where there is no such necessity, is the ostentation unseasonable.
[6.] "But the lookers-on will laugh," saith some one. Most certainly if there be any laughter, we need not care much for one so exceedingly foolish; but at present there are many who rather admire and accept our true wisdom. For these are not the things which deserve laughter, but those which we do at present, weeping, and wailing, and burying ourselves with the departed; these things deserve ridicule and punishment. But to show true wisdom, both in these respects and in the modesty of the attire used, prepares crowns and praises for us, and all will applaud us, and will admire the power of Christ, and will say, "Amazing! How great is the power of the Crucified One! He hath persuaded those who are perishing and wasting, that death is not death; they therefore do not act as perishing men, but as men who send the dead before them to a distant and better dwelling-place. He hath persuaded them that this corruptible and earthy body shall put on a garment more glorious than silk or cloth of gold, the garment of immortality; therefore they are not very anxious about their burial, but deem a virtuous life to be an admirable winding-sheet." These things they will say, if they see us showing true wisdom; but if they behold us bent down with grief, playing the woman, placing around troops of female mourners, they will laugh, and mock, and find fault in ten thousand ways, pulling to pieces our foolish expense, our vain labor. With these things we hear all finding fault; and very reasonably. For what excuse can we have, when we adorn a body, which is consumed by25202520 or, "given over to," lit. "spent upon." corruption and worms, and neglect Christ when thirsting, going about naked, and a stranger? Cease we then from this vain trouble. Let us perform the obsequies of the departed, as is good both for us and them, to the glory of God: let us do much alms for their sake, let us send with them the best provision for the way. For if the memory of admirable men, though dead, hath protected the living, (for, "I will defend," it saith, "this city for Mine Own. sake, and for My servant David's sake"— 2 Kings xix. 34 ,) much more will alms-doing effect this; for this hath raised even the dead, as when the widows stood round25212521 al. "stood by." showing what things Dorcas had made, while she was with them. ( Acts ix. 39.) When therefore one is about to die, let the friend of that dying person prepare the obsequies,25222522 or, "burial dress," τὰ ἐντάφια and persuade25232523 i.e. by persuading. the departing one to leave somewhat to the needy. With these garments let him send him to the grave, leaving25242524 Sav. reads, κληρονόμον ἀφιέναι τὸν Χ. ἀφίεντα may be conjectured. The Ben. ed. reads, πειθέτω καὶ κλ. κ.τ.λ Christ his heir. For if they who write kings among their heirs, leave a safe portion to their relations,25252525 Ben. "leave very great safety." One ms. has a slight variety of sense: "If they who write kings their heirs among their relations, leave that portion for the safety of the children." when one leaves Christ heir with his children, consider how great good he will draw down upon himself and all his. These are the right25262526 καλὰ sort of funerals, these profit both those who remain and those who depart. If we be so buried, we shall be glorious at the Resurrection-time. But if caring for the body we neglect the soul, we then shall suffer many terrible things, and incur much ridicule. For neither is it a common unseemliness to depart without being clothed with virtue, nor is the body, though cast out without a tomb, so disgraced, as a soul appearing bare of virtue in that day. This let us put on, this let us wrap around us; it is best to do so during all our lifetime; but if we have in this life been negligent, let us at least in our end be sober, and charge our relations to help us when we depart by alms-doing; that being thus assisted by each other, we may attain25272527 ἐ πιτύχωμεν without any conjunction preceding. Sav. conject. ἐ πιτευξόμεθα to much confidence, through the grace and lovingkindness of our Lord Jesus Christ, with whom to the Father and the Holy Ghost be glory, dominion, and honor, now and ever and world without end. Amen.
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Newswise — A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests that hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) injures the heart, even in patients without a history of heart disease or diabetes. Researchers found that elevated levels of glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), a marker for chronic hyperglycemia and diabetes, were associated with minute levels of the protein troponin T (cTnT), a blood marker for heart damage. The high-sensitivity test they used detected levels of cTnT tenfold lower than those found in patients diagnosed with a heart attack. The findings, which are published in the latest issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, suggest that hyperglycemia may be related to cardiac damage independent of atherosclerosis.
"Hyperglycemia and diabetes are known to be associated with an increased risk for heart attack and coronary disease and our study sheds some light on what may be happening," said Elizabeth Selvin, PhD, MPH, senior author of the study and associate professor in the Bloomberg School's Department of Epidemiology. "Our results suggest that chronically elevated glucose levels may contribute to heart damage."
For the study, the researchers followed 9,662 participants from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study. None of the participants had coronary heart disease or history of heart failure. Higher levels of HbA1c were associated in a graded fashion with elevated levels of high-sensitivity cTnT. This relationship was present at HbA1c levels even below the threshold used to diagnose diabetes. Using conventional tests, troponin T can be detected in 0.7 percent of the population and is associated with heart attacks and death. With the high-sensitivity cTnT test, low levels of troponin were found in 66 percent of the study population.
"Our study hints at other potential pathways by which diabetes and elevated glucose are associated with heart disease. Mainly, glucose might not only be related to increased atherosclerosis, but potentially elevated glucose levels may directly damage cardiac muscle," said Jonathan Rubin, MD, general internal medicine fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He was lead author of the study while studying at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Additional authors of "Chronic Hyperglycemia and Subclinical Myocardial Injury" include Kunihiro Matsushita, MD, PhD, and Josef Coresh, MD, PhD, of the Bloomberg School of Public Health; and Christine M. Ballantyne, MD, and Ron Hoogeveen, PhD, of the Baylor College of Medicine.
The research was supported with grants from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is currently in London with British Foreign Secretary William Hague and other world leaders at the largest ever summit on rape in war. We commend the United States, United Kingdom, and others for playing a leadership role in these global efforts to address and prevent rape in conflict. Rape has become an all-too-common weapon of war aimed to control, intimidate, and humiliate millions of women and girls.
But the conversation and action need to go further. For far too long, the international dialogue has stopped at prevention. Leaders have failed to discuss how to respond to the aftermath of rape. They have failed to address the healthcare needs of survivors. And they have failed to make sure women and girls get the necessary care and support to rebuild their lives.
A little-known, 41-year-old U.S. law is a key reason for these continued and systemic failures. It has proven an enduring barrier to comprehensive post-rape care for women, including access to counseling, support, and safe abortion.
The Legacy of Jesse Helms
The Helms amendment restricts the use of U.S. aid for abortions "as a method of family planning or to motivate or coerce any person to practice abortions," but does not prohibit such funding in cases of rape, incest, or life endangerment. However, a lack of clarity around the amendment has resulted in its misapplication as a complete ban on funding abortion.
As a result, most organizations that rely on U.S. aid too often turn their backs when pregnant rape survivors ask for help. Those health providers are afraid to lose their funding and therefore avoid abortion services and referrals altogether.
This must end. The long-overdue global conversation about rape in conflict must include the pressing need for women and girls to access comprehensive post-rape care. This was a conversation the world needed decades ago, with wars being waged against women's bodies in places like Bosnia, Rwanda, and Burma. It was needed in 2011 when conflict broke out in Libya. It is needed more than ever today.
For every day of inaction, horrific wars worldwide rage on. Nearly 50 women and girls are raped every hour in eastern Congo. Sexual violence is a primary reason women and girls are fleeing Syria, according to the International Rescue Committee. In the aftermath of such unimaginable sexual violence, these women and girls are being denied health care they need, including access to abortion.
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Author: Hili Zilbershtein
Why can't I let it go: a case of Salix fragilis
by Hili Zilbershtein
A case of a 35 year old lady, who first came to my clinic to treat her depression and anxieties. At that time, she was on psychiatric medication that did not do her any good and caused side effects.
The depression began after she had a motorcycle accident, five years ago. I prescribed Aconite, and she improved very much: "My depression is gone." Accordingly, her psychiatrist decreased her pills by half.
A few years later, she asked me to treat her hair: she complained that her hair is weak and falls out. She also complains of confusion, irritability, and restlessness. I prescribed Lac leoninum, on which she did very well, but after 6 months, she came back and asked me to treat her increased appetite and her weight gain. Despite the fact that she does sports and exercises regularly, she cannot lose weight, it is "as if my body wants to keep it," she says.
Patient (P): "The way I perceive food has changed: there is so much of everything, and I want to eat everything all the time. I want to lose weight but I don't want to think about it or deal with it – as if it will happen by itself. It's just like the way I deal with my emotions. I push them away, and don't talk about them, hoping they will pass. I am very rational; I act from the mind, not from the heart and I can't express my emotions. I find it very hard to speak of my emotions, to speak from the heart."
"I eat much more than I need, and I think of food all the time, even if I just finished eating, even if I am not hungry. I associate that with the accident. After the accident, I used to stay at home a lot and just go out for lunch. Food was a way of escaping my problems and from being home alone. I love chocolate the most; I can eat it all day long. Food is a way of compensation!
"The accident is on my mind all the time. It changed me and I want to go back to the way things were before; I want the accident to be deleted from my mind.
"I am very orderly and love cleanliness. I can't study when the house is dirty and in a mess. I need harmony."
HZ: Tell me about this dirt?
P: "Dirt is a negative emotion or thought. A dirty environment intrudes upon me and I then need to wash it away. Like the accident… it needs to be cleaned, purged, and so on. Not much is left of that, but it is a burden on me, heavy, and I want to be light. Maybe the body stays "big" on purpose? In order to feel more robust and resilient – not fragile.
I want to let it go, I feel frustrated and guilty. I ask myself 'why can't I let it go?' It's like a huge heavy sack I carry. It is like a prison one put oneself in, but the door is wide open and still you don't go out. It is a basket I carry because I am afraid of letting go. It's part of me. I am afraid to leave it all behind and start over. Afraid to let go.
Main themes and rubrics:
Sensation of heaviness
Wants a change in her life (fear of letting go of the past)
Mind-emotions predominated by the intellect
Mind – change, desire for
Mind- dwells, past disagreeable occurrences (still dwells on the accident)
Mind – disease, belongs to her – her disease does not (she feels as if the accident is not really related to her, wants things to be solved by themselves)
Mind – order – desire for
Mind – impulsive
Gen- food – chocolate – desire.
Prescription : Salix fragilis 200c, one dose
The remedy comes up in the repertorization and, according to the "Table of Plants – Wondrous Order", it describes a situation when one has reached the end: one wants a change in life, but cannot bring it about, causing a feeling of entrapment, of being stuck. One is stuck at the end of a situation (the last row) but cannot perform the required change. There is a lot of heavy sensation, and difficulty in letting go of a past event.
The last row also implies drying up: here, the emotion is drying up and she is dominated by her intellect. The food issue and chocolate desire also situate her to the 4th column – the nurturing column. Even the way she describes her improvement implies the nurturing column: "I can't 'digest' negative things that happen in life."
After 2 months: she is better. Less thinking about food, her appetite is normal again. She only eats when hungry and she has lost weight.
Seven months later: her thoughts of the accident decreased and stopped. She halted the pending law suit process with the insurance concerning the accident, and moved on with her life.
She accepts life: "I can 'digest' negative things that happen in life, like death." She is more open and manages to express her feelings. She can release her anger, has less negative thoughts. Feels steady and strong and whole. "I feel that I am standing on solid ground, and I am able to cope with what will come."
Keywords: heaviness, desire chocolate, entrapment, desire for change, emotional dryness, fragility
Remedies: Salix fragilis.


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|/* Generic routines for manipulating SSA_NAME expressions
|Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
|This file is part of GCC.
|GCC is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
|it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
|the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
|any later version.
|GCC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
|but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
|MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
|GNU General Public License for more details.
|You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
|along with GCC; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
|the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
|Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
|#include "config.h"
|#include "system.h"
|#include "coretypes.h"
|#include "tm.h"
|#include "tree.h"
|#include "varray.h"
|#include "ggc.h"
|#include "tree-flow.h"
|/* Rewriting a function into SSA form can create a huge number of SSA_NAMEs,
|many of which may be thrown away shortly after their creation if jumps
|were threaded through PHI nodes.
|While our garbage collection mechanisms will handle this situation, it
|is extremely wasteful to create nodes and throw them away, especially
|when the nodes can be reused.
|For PR 8361, we can significantly reduce the number of nodes allocated
|and thus the total amount of memory allocated by managing SSA_NAMEs a
|little. This additionally helps reduce the amount of work done by the
|garbage collector. Similar results have been seen on a wider variety
|of tests (such as the compiler itself).
|Right now we maintain our free list on a per-function basis. It may
|or may not make sense to maintain the free list for the duration of
|a compilation unit.
|External code should rely solely upon HIGHEST_SSA_VERSION and the
|externally defined functions. External code should not know about
|the details of the free list management.
|External code should also not assume the version number on nodes is
|monotonically increasing. We reuse the version number when we
|reuse an SSA_NAME expression. This helps keep arrays and bitmaps
|more compact.
|We could also use a zone allocator for these objects since they have
|a very well defined lifetime. If someone wants to experiment with that
|this is the place to try it. */
|/* Array of all SSA_NAMEs used in the function. */
|varray_type ssa_names;
|/* Bitmap of ssa names marked for rewriting. */
|static bitmap ssa_names_to_rewrite;
|/* Free list of SSA_NAMEs. This list is wiped at the end of each function
|after we leave SSA form. */
|static GTY (()) tree free_ssanames;
|/* Version numbers with special meanings. We start allocating new version
|numbers after the special ones. */
|#define UNUSED_NAME_VERSION 0
|#ifdef GATHER_STATISTICS
|unsigned int ssa_name_nodes_reused;
|unsigned int ssa_name_nodes_created;
|/* Returns true if ssa name VAR is marked for rewrite. */
|marked_for_rewrite_p (tree var)
|return bitmap_bit_p (ssa_names_to_rewrite, SSA_NAME_VERSION (var));
|/* Returns true if any ssa name is marked for rewrite. */
|any_marked_for_rewrite_p (void)
|if (!ssa_names_to_rewrite)
|return false;
|return !bitmap_empty_p (ssa_names_to_rewrite);
|/* Mark ssa name VAR for rewriting. */
|mark_for_rewrite (tree var)
|bitmap_set_bit (ssa_names_to_rewrite, SSA_NAME_VERSION (var));
|/* Unmark all ssa names marked for rewrite. */
|unmark_all_for_rewrite (void)
|bitmap_clear (ssa_names_to_rewrite);
|/* Return the bitmap of ssa names to rewrite. Copy the bitmap,
|so that the optimizers cannot access internals directly */
|marked_ssa_names (void)
|bitmap ret = BITMAP_ALLOC (NULL);
|bitmap_copy (ret, ssa_names_to_rewrite);
|return ret;
|/* Initialize management of SSA_NAMEs. */
|init_ssanames (void)
|VARRAY_TREE_INIT (ssa_names, 50, "ssa_names table");
|/* Version 0 is special, so reserve the first slot in the table. Though
|currently unused, we may use version 0 in alias analysis as part of
|the heuristics used to group aliases when the alias sets are too
|large. */
|VARRAY_PUSH_TREE (ssa_names, NULL_TREE);
|free_ssanames = NULL;
|ssa_names_to_rewrite = BITMAP_ALLOC (NULL);
|/* Finalize management of SSA_NAMEs. */
|fini_ssanames (void)
|BITMAP_FREE (ssa_names_to_rewrite);
|ggc_free (ssa_names);
|ssa_names = NULL;
|free_ssanames = NULL;
|/* Dump some simple statistics regarding the re-use of SSA_NAME nodes. */
|#ifdef GATHER_STATISTICS
|ssanames_print_statistics (void)
|fprintf (stderr, "SSA_NAME nodes allocated: %u\n", ssa_name_nodes_created);
|fprintf (stderr, "SSA_NAME nodes reused: %u\n", ssa_name_nodes_reused);
|/* Return an SSA_NAME node for variable VAR defined in statement STMT.
|STMT may be an empty statement for artificial references (e.g., default
|definitions created when a variable is used without a preceding
|definition). */
|make_ssa_name (tree var, tree stmt)
|tree t;
|gcc_assert (DECL_P (var)
||| TREE_CODE (var) == INDIRECT_REF);
|gcc_assert (!stmt || EXPR_P (stmt) || TREE_CODE (stmt) == PHI_NODE);
|/* If our free list has an element, then use it. */
|if (free_ssanames)
|t = free_ssanames;
|free_ssanames = TREE_CHAIN (free_ssanames);
|#ifdef GATHER_STATISTICS
|/* The node was cleared out when we put it on the free list, so
|there is no need to do so again here. */
|gcc_assert (ssa_name (SSA_NAME_VERSION (t)) == NULL);
|VARRAY_TREE (ssa_names, SSA_NAME_VERSION (t)) = t;
|t = make_node (SSA_NAME);
|SSA_NAME_VERSION (t) = num_ssa_names;
|VARRAY_PUSH_TREE (ssa_names, t);
|#ifdef GATHER_STATISTICS
|TREE_TYPE (t) = TREE_TYPE (var);
|SSA_NAME_VAR (t) = var;
|SSA_NAME_DEF_STMT (t) = stmt;
|SSA_NAME_PTR_INFO (t) = NULL;
|SSA_NAME_IN_FREE_LIST (t) = 0;
|return t;
|/* We no longer need the SSA_NAME expression VAR, release it so that
|it may be reused.
|Note it is assumed that no calls to make_ssa_name will be made
|until all uses of the ssa name are released and that the only
|use of the SSA_NAME expression is to check its SSA_NAME_VAR. All
|other fields must be assumed clobbered. */
|release_ssa_name (tree var)
|if (!var)
|/* Never release the default definition for a symbol. It's a
|special SSA name that should always exist once it's created. */
|if (var == var_ann (SSA_NAME_VAR (var))->default_def)
|/* If the ssa name is marked for rewriting, it may have multiple definitions,
|but we may happen to remove just one of them. So do not remove the
|ssa name now. */
|if (marked_for_rewrite_p (var))
|/* release_ssa_name can be called multiple times on a single SSA_NAME.
|However, it should only end up on our free list one time. We
|keep a status bit in the SSA_NAME node itself to indicate it has
|been put on the free list.
|Note that once on the freelist you can not reference the SSA_NAME's
|defining statement. */
|if (! SSA_NAME_IN_FREE_LIST (var))
|tree saved_ssa_name_var = SSA_NAME_VAR (var);
|int saved_ssa_name_version = SSA_NAME_VERSION (var);
|VARRAY_TREE (ssa_names, SSA_NAME_VERSION (var)) = NULL;
|memset (var, 0, tree_size (var));
|/* First put back the right tree node so that the tree checking
|macros do not complain. */
|TREE_SET_CODE (var, SSA_NAME);
|/* Restore the version number. */
|SSA_NAME_VERSION (var) = saved_ssa_name_version;
|/* Hopefully this can go away once we have the new incremental
|SSA updating code installed. */
|SSA_NAME_VAR (var) = saved_ssa_name_var;
|/* Note this SSA_NAME is now in the first list. */
|SSA_NAME_IN_FREE_LIST (var) = 1;
|/* And finally link it into the free list. */
|TREE_CHAIN (var) = free_ssanames;
|free_ssanames = var;
|/* Creates a duplicate of a ssa name NAME defined in statement STMT. */
|duplicate_ssa_name (tree name, tree stmt)
|tree new_name = make_ssa_name (SSA_NAME_VAR (name), stmt);
|struct ptr_info_def *old_ptr_info = SSA_NAME_PTR_INFO (name);
|struct ptr_info_def *new_ptr_info;
|if (!old_ptr_info)
|return new_name;
|new_ptr_info = ggc_alloc (sizeof (struct ptr_info_def));
|*new_ptr_info = *old_ptr_info;
|if (old_ptr_info->pt_vars)
|new_ptr_info->pt_vars = BITMAP_GGC_ALLOC ();
|bitmap_copy (new_ptr_info->pt_vars, old_ptr_info->pt_vars);
|SSA_NAME_PTR_INFO (new_name) = new_ptr_info;
|return new_name;
|/* Release all the SSA_NAMEs created by STMT. */
|release_defs (tree stmt)
|tree def;
|ssa_op_iter iter;
|FOR_EACH_SSA_TREE_OPERAND (def, stmt, iter, SSA_OP_ALL_DEFS)
|if (TREE_CODE (def) == SSA_NAME)
|release_ssa_name (def);
|/* Replace the symbol associated with SSA_NAME with SYM. */
|replace_ssa_name_symbol (tree ssa_name, tree sym)
|SSA_NAME_VAR (ssa_name) = sym;
|TREE_TYPE (ssa_name) = TREE_TYPE (sym);
|#include "gt-tree-ssanames.h"


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MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin has said in a first-person documentary aired on his 60th birthday that the current generation of opposition leaders needs to be cast aside.
The documentary that aired Sunday casts Putin as a tireless and no-nonsense leader contemptuous of domestic and international criticism. It also depicts a Spartan lifestyle of daily exercise, plain breakfasts and late-night work sessions.
Putin says in the program that he welcomes opposing views, but that they should come from people willing to take responsibility for running the country. Putin's dismissive remarks addressed at the opposition will reconsolidate anxiety over his perceived disregard for pluralism in Russia.
Celebrations took place Sunday all over Russia to celebrate Putin's birthday, although the Kremlin has said the president opted for low-key celebrations with friends and family.


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Hedge funds have been adding to their stock holdings and are now the most bullish they've been since 2007.
Of the money they have in stocks, hedge funds allocated 52% toward bullish bets during the fourth quarter, up from 48% in the third quarter and matching the all-time high set in the first quarter of 2007, according to a Goldman Sachs report that tracked 725 hedge funds with $1.3 trillion in assets.
It's no coincidence that hedge funds are making a bigger bet on stocks. The last time they were this bullish, the Dow Jones industrial average and S&P 500 were at record highs. And recently, both indexes have nearly hit new all-time highs.
Still, there's one long-time favorite that isn't getting as much love. For the first time in three years, Apple (AAPL) is no longer the hedge fund darling.
Related: Google's next target: $1,000
Insurance giant AIG (AIG) ousted the iPhone and iPad maker as the most widely held stock among hedge funds at the end of last year. And Google (GOOG) also attracted more hedge funds, pushing Apple down to third most popular.
The change-up came as Apple's shares tumbled 20% during the fourth quarter. Apple's stock has continued to fall, declining 15% so far this year. Meanwhile, AIG has climbed more than 16% since the beginning of October, and Google has rallied to new all-time highs above $800.
Even though Apple has lost some of its appeal, it remained the biggest holding at many top hedge funds, including David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital and David Tepper's Appaloosa Management.
Einhorn has been on the offensive against Apple, calling for the tech giant to return some of its $137 billion of cash to shareholders in the form of preferred stock.
Related: Soros dumps gold as prices sink
In addition to Apple, hedge funds also reduced their exposure to gold last quarter. Holdings in the SPDR Gold Trust ETF (GLD) fell to the lowest level in four years, according the report. Gold prices have fallen more than 11% since the beginning of the fourth quarter.
Despite the portfolio changes, hedge funds continue to lag the broader market. In 2012, the average hedge fund generated an 8% return, according to Goldman's report, compared with the S&P 500's 13% increase. And so far in 2013, hedge funds are averaging a 3% return, while the S&P 500 has climbed more than 5%.


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The magnitude of this Obama administration's "progressive" radicalism becomes more evident with each passing day. In recent months, there has been a drastic spike in acts of both anti-Christian and anti-conservative discrimination and intimidation on military bases across the country. This mounting harassment is not being carried out at the hands of regular enlisted folk but, rather, at the hands of high-ranking officials who, in their official capacity, are targeting Christian and conservative organizations and individuals in an effort to silence them.
It has long been suspected that the Obama administration is using propaganda circulated by the roundly discredited Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC, a left-wing extremist group that, in recent years, has adopted two primary goals: 1) raising truckloads of money and 2) smearing as "domestic hate groups" dozens of mainstream Christian ministries like the Family Research Council, or FRC, and the American Family Association, or AFA.
This suspicion has now been verified.
The problem on military bases has gotten so bad, in fact, that the U.S. Congress is
"'But as we looked into it, [we found] this is not an isolated incident,' Nunnelee [told] OneNewsNow. 'There are a number of cases where the Army has singled out the American Family Association and other Christian organizations as hate groups, and service men and women have been threatened with sanctions if they support these groups."
After a tremendous public outcry – and in an embarrassing slap to the face of the SPLC – the Pentagon quickly backpedaled, later apologizing about the Camp Shelby incident and publicly admitting that, despite the SPLC's absurd claims to the contrary, the AFA is not a "hate group."
Still, rather than distancing itself from the anti-Christian SPLC as one might expect, the Obama administration has, instead, strengthened ties to the hard-left outfit. Even after this string of military scandals.
For instance, I recently learned that on its official website, the FBI lists as one of its primary "hate crimes resources," the Southern Poverty Law Center.
This is especially mysterious when you consider that the FBI's own verified hate crimes statistics are completely at odds with numbers put out by the SPLC in its fundraising propaganda. Whereas the FBI indicates that there was a sharp 24.3 percent decrease in hate crimes from 1996 to 2010, with racial hate crimes dropping by 41.9 percent, the SPLC incongruously claims that since 2000, the number of "hate groups" has somehow increased by 67.3 percent.
So send your money right away!
The FBI's empirical data doesn't track with the SPLC's political propaganda. Consequently, by partnering so closely with this discredited organization, the Department of Justice significantly undermines its own credibility.
Still, while the SPLC has proven utterly unreliable in its actuarial acumen – as well as intentionally dishonest – it has also proven demonstrably dangerous in its prolonged campaign of anti-Christian agitation.
You may recall that it was the Southern Poverty Law Center's somewhat clever, yet patently dishonest and reprehensible strategy of juxtaposing, as fellow "hate groups," mainstream Christian organizations like the FRC and the AFA alongside violent extremist groups like the Aryan Brotherhood and the Skin Heads that, on Aug. 15, 2012, led to an actual act of domestic terrorism.
On that date, "gay" activist Floyd Lee Corkins II – who later confessed in court that he was spurred-on by the SPLC's anti-Christian materials – entered the lobby of the Washington-based Family Research Council intending to kill every Christian within.
Corkins was armed with both a gun and a backpack full of ammunition. He also had 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches that he intended to rub in the faces of his would-be victims. (FRC had recently defended the food chain's COO Dan Cathy for pro-natural marriage statements he made.)
The only thing standing between Corkins and mass murder was FRC facilities manager and security specialist Leo Johnson. As Corkins shouted disapproval for FRC's "politics," he shot Johnson who, despite a severely wounded arm, managed to tackle Corkins and disarm him.
Of Johnson's actions, D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said, "The security guard here is a hero, as far as I'm concerned."
I agree.
Upon hearing of Leo's selfless act of heroism, I was reminded of John 15:13: "Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends."
But according to both the SPLC and the FBI (by virtue of its close ties to the group), Leo's heart is, instead, full of hate. Everyone at FRC is hateful.
In fact, if you happen to be a Bible-believing Christian, you too are hateful.
You get the drill.
The Obama administration has absolutely no business partnering with this extremist organization – and it's an outrage that it does. If this troubles you as much as it does me, please contact the FBI at (202) 324-3000 and respectfully voice your concern. Then call or email your local FBI office. (Click here to find that location.) It's critical that freedom-loving Americans light-up the FBI's phone lines and demand that all facets of government completely disassociate from the SPLC and disavow any further use of its anti-Christian propaganda.
The Southern Poverty Law Center must be held accountable for its inflammatory and potentially deadly anti-Christian bigotry.


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Frederic Edwin Church: Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives
Israel (and the lobby) against the US
John Mearsheimer
In the wake of Vice President Joe Biden's ill-fated trip to Israel last week, many people would agree with the Israeli ambassador Michael Oren's remark that 'Israel's ties with the United States are in their worst crisis since 1975 ... a crisis of historic proportions.' Like all crises, this one will eventually go away. However, this bitter fight has disturbing implications for Israelis and their American supporters.
First, the events of the past week make it clear in ways that we have not seen in the past that Israel is a strategic liability for the United States, not the strategic asset that the Israel lobby has long claimed it was. Specifically, the Obama administration has unambiguously declared that Israel's expansionist policies in the Occupied Territories, including East Jerusalem, are doing serious damage to US interests in the region. Indeed, Biden reportedly told the Israeli prime minister, Binyahim Netanyahu, in private:
This is starting to get dangerous for us. What you're doing here undermines the security of our troops who are fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. That endangers us, and it endangers regional peace.
If that message begins to resonate with the American public, unconditional support for the Jewish state is likely to evaporate.
Right after Biden's remarks were reported by the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, Mark Perry, a Middle East expert with excellent contacts in the US military, described a briefing that senior officers working directly for General David Petraeus, the head of Central Command, gave on 16 January to Admiral Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The central message Petraeus sent to Mullen, according to Perry, was that 'Israeli intransigence on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was jeopardising US standing in the region ... and could cost American lives.' Apparently, Mullen took this message to the White House, where it had a significant impact on the president and his chief advisers. Biden's comments to Netanyahu appear to reflect that view.
Israel's supporters in the United States have long defended the special relationship between the two countries on the grounds that their interests are virtually the same and therefore it makes sense to back Israel no matter what policies it adopts. Recent events show that claim to be false, however, which will make it hard to defend the special relationship, especially if it is putting American soldiers at risk.
Second, the Obama administration has gone beyond simply expressing anger over the 1600 housing units that Israel announced it would build in East Jerusalem just after Biden landed at Ben-Gurion Airport. According to press reports that have not been challenged, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has demanded that Netanyahu reverse his government's decision approving that construction. This demand is unprecedented; the United States has often complained about settlement building, and Obama asked Israel to freeze temporarily the construction of new settlements in 2009, but it has never asked Israel to reverse a building plan that the government has already approved.
Israel will surely fight tooth and nail against Clinton's demand, and so will the main groups in the lobby. The Netanyahu government is filled with hard-line opponents of a two-state solution, many of whom also believe that East Jerusalem is an integral part of Israel, and it is hard to see how Netanyahu's coalition could survive if he agreed not to build those 1600 housing units. Yet Obama has powerful incentives to stand his ground as well. After all, he backed down last year when Netanyahu refused his request that Israel completely freeze settlement building in all of the Occupied Territories – including East Jerusalem – and that act of spinelessness has cost him dearly in the Arab and Islamic world. More important, we now know that the president and his lieutenants believe that new construction in East Jerusalem threatens American lives, which makes it even harder to see how he could back down without suffering political damage.
Still, it is hard to imagine the Obama administration engaging in a serious fight with Israel over the fate of those 1600 housing units, given that the lobby wields extraordinary influence inside the Beltway. The president is also not inclined by temperament to engage in public brawls and he has so many other problems on his plate that he surely does not want to get bogged down in a costly fight with Israel and its American supporters. In the end, there is likely to be a rather muted, protracted dispute between the two sides over those housing units and the many others that the Netanyahu government plans to build in East Jerusalem. This ongoing conflict will be a constant reminder to Americans that Israel and the United States have conflicting interests on a very important issue.
The third reason that this crisis is so troublesome for Israel and the lobby is that it forces the latter to choose sides in a public way. There is little doubt that almost all of the mainstream organisations of the lobby will back Israel to the hilt and blame the Obama administration for the crisis. This tendency to defend Israel no matter what it does is reflected in the recent comments of Abraham Foxman, the head of the Anti-Defamation League. He issued a press release about the Biden visit in which he said he was 'shocked and stunned at the administration's tone and public dressing down of Israel on the issue of future building in Jerusalem'. It was, he said, 'a gross overreaction to a point of policy difference among friends'. He will have plenty of company in the weeks ahead from his fellow hard-liners in the lobby, who will not miss an opportunity to defend Israel and lambast Obama and his advisers.
Siding with Israel against the United States was not a great problem a few years ago: one could pretend that the interests of the two countries were the same and there was little knowledge in the broader public about how the Israel lobby operated and how much it influenced the making of US Middle East policy. But those days are gone, probably for ever. It is now commonplace to talk about the lobby in the mainstream media and almost everyone who pays serious attention to American foreign policy understands – thanks mainly to the internet – that the lobby is an especially powerful interest group.
Therefore, it will be difficult to disguise the fact that most pro-Israel groups are siding with Israel against the US president, and defending policies that respected military leaders now openly question. This is an awful situation for the lobby to find itself in, because it raises legitimate questions about whether it has the best interests of the United States at heart or whether it cares more about Israel's interests. Again, this matters more than ever, because key figures in the administration have let it be known that Israel is acting in ways that at best complicate US diplomacy, and at worst could get Americans killed.
The crisis will undoubtedly simmer down over the next few weeks. We are already hearing lots of reassuring rhetoric from the administration and Capitol Hill about 'shared values', 'unbreakable bonds' and the other supposed virtues of the special relationship. And the lobby is hard at work downplaying the importance of the crisis. For example, Congressman Gary Ackerman, a fervent supporter of Israel, described recent events as a 'mini-crisis, if even that'. Michael Oren is now denying – rather late in the game I might add – that he ever said that relations between Israel and the United States are at a 35-year low. He claims to have been 'flagrantly misquoted'. And to show how Orwellian the lobby can be, Israel's supporters are also trying to make the case that Biden too was flagrantly misquoted and indeed, he never told Netanyahu that Israel's policies were putting American troops at risk.
This concerted effort to rewrite history and generate lots of happy talk about the special relationship will surely help ameliorate the present crisis, but that will only be a temporary fix. There will be more crises ahead, because a two-state solution is probably impossible at this point and 'greater Israel' is going to end up an apartheid state. The United States cannot support that outcome, however, partly for the strategic reasons that have been exposed by the present crisis, but also because apartheid is a morally reprehensible system that no decent American could openly embrace. Given its core values, how could the United States sustain a special relationship with an apartheid state? In short, America's remarkably close relationship with Israel is now in trouble and this situation will only get worse.
London review of Books –LRB blog – 17 maart 2010
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NEW CASTLE, Del. – County Executive Tom Gordon has appointed Delaware Attorney Samuel L. Guy to the position of Acting Deputy Chief Administrative Officer for New Castle County. "His knowledge, skills, and abilities will serve him well in this position," County Executive Gordon said. Guy, a Wilmington resident, initially joined the Gordon Administration in January of 2013 as an Executive Assistant.
Sam Guy brings a broad range of administrative and legal experience in the public and private sector to the post. Guy says he looks forward to providing continued support to the CE and CAO. The County Executive has been very mindful of workforce diversity and equal employment opportunity.
"In this year when the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is being celebrated, it is a blessing to have real opportunities," Guy said. "I thank the CE and CAO."
Attorney Guy served as a member of City Council in Wilmington, Delaware (At-Large) from 1997-2001. Mr. Guy served as the Chair of the Judiciary Committee, Education Committee, and Census Complete Count Committee. He also served as a member of Delaware's Wilmington Neighborhood Schools Committee. He served for four years as the Chairman and President of the Delaware State Conference of the NAACP. He has also been the Chair of the NAACP Northeast Region extending from Maine to Delaware.
Attorney Guy holds a Juris Doctor (JD) Degree from the Delaware Law School of Widener University; a Masters Degree In Public Administration (MPA) from the University Of Delaware specializing in State and Local Government as well as Fiscal and Resource Management; a Masters Degree In Business Administration (MBA) from the University Of Rochester in Finance, Marketing, and Applied Economics; and a Bachelors of Science (BS) from Delaware State University in Mathematics and Chemistry. He was a Midshipman at the United State Naval Academy. Guy later completed graduate studies at UD, receiving a Masters of Instruction (MI) in Educational Technology and a Masters of Education (MEd) in Educational Leadership.
Guy will earn a salary of $129,936 per year in his new position.