Grow
Your
Likeness
增长你的相似
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あなたの似姿を育てる
Anata no ni sugata o sodateru
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Our tabernacle is like those of others, but who is like our God?
We have entered the land of promise from the wilderness we had trod.
We meet to worship in a holy place
that holds that which cannot be held, the sacred space for grace.
We raise our hands in prayer
for guidance from the essential presence anywhere.
We listen to the scripture read
to consider the dignity of law for the living and the dead.
This is the west.
Do your best.
Let God do the rest.
Our enemies have made a commotion
against the way we celebrate devotion.
They have taken crafty counsel against your faithful.
Their disruption has been disrespectful.
Their speech has not been grateful.
They said that they wanted to cut us off as a nation.
The children of the light were not to be remembered for the celebration
of salvation.
The gods who did not make heaven or earth
will perish from the heart of essential worth.
Their lot consulted together and formed consent.
They organized against your covenant.
The tents of the red earth and the desert wanderers
teamed together with the cave space conjurers.
The cults of the strong, the moral, the reward, the hidden,
and the valley dweller conjoined with the other bidden.
The band of the archer conspired with the rebel cause.
The conspiracy aspired to break your laws.
The elements for strife and destruction were drawn to a spring
to destroy the settlement of the faithful united by what defense would bring.
They met their elementary end at the encampment by the water.
The outcome had been predicted by both prophet and augur.
The principle element for matter
has been identified as hydrogen for the mad hatter.
Their leaders became disciples of the wolf and raven.
The power of light had denied shade to their haven.
They were not allowed to take our houses in their possession.
We did not grant concession to their aggression.
God made them into a wheel to be rolled back.
We were allowed to continue on our projected track.
As fire burned the wood and the flame set the mountain ablaze,
they were driven back by the tempest that enveloped the terrain.
Their hearts were filled with shame.
They had not sought the wonder of your name.
Let those who reject your common law
be confounded by the absence of reverence and awe.
Let all people know that the name of the Lord for our existence
shines as the most high above the earth for consistent insistence
on the right to defense for assistance.
Many died through the one man's trespass
so the gift of grace in Christ Jesus might amass.
You had lifted up the Son of Man. You saw that I am he.
I have spoken as the Father had instructed me.
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83 Deus, quis similis?
1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
9 Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
10 Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O Lord.
17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:
18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, art the most high over all the earth.
tabernacle- tent for worship
Israel- Seat/Light/god of gods - Judgement
Edom- red earth
Ishmael- desert wanderers; desolation god
Moab- from father; incest in royal line
Hagar- this reward
Gegal- strong, moral
Ammon- the hidden
Amalek- valley dweller
Philistine- tribe of hestia, the hearth
Tyre- rock
Assur- archer
Lot- envelop
Midian- strife
Sisera- servant of light
Jabin- the wise
Kison- lay bait
Endor- spring settlement
Oreb- raven
Zeeb- wolf
Zeba- power of light; beauty
Zalumna- shade denied
Jehovah- I am
The tabernacle in a church differs from the tent for worship in the wilderness, but it is a symbolic reminder of the wilderness experience.
Church Tabernacle
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"When I was growing up, anytime I visited a church I immediately saw the..."
Jeremiah 10:11
The gods who did not make the heavens
and the earth will perish from the earth under the heavens.
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The gods who did not make heaven or earth
will perish from the heart of essential worth.
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Romans 5:15
The free gift is not like the trespass. If the many died through the one man's trespass, much more surely have the grace of God and the free gift in the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abounded for the many.
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Many died through the one man's trespass
so the free gift of grace in Christ Jesus might amass.
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John 8:28
So Jesus said, 'When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I am he. I do nothing on my own. I speak these things as the Father instructed me.
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You had lifted up the Son of Man. You saw that I am he.
I have spoken as the Father has instructed me.
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Pope Sixtus III
Rome, Italy
d. 28 March 440, Rome Italy
Sixtus was born in Rome in the 4th century.
The Christian religion had changed in that century. It had gone from a persecuted sect to the official state religion. Constantine had been one of those who issued the Edict of Milan in 313. The edict expressed tolerance for Christian and returned property that had been confiscated.
He had acted as a judge in the Donatist controversy in North Africa in 316. The Donatists had argued that the priests had to be faultless for the sanctity of the sacraments. They had also pressed to prevent the lapsed from reconciliation with the church. The error for their sect persisted from the 4th to the 6th century.
Constantine had moved his capital to Byzantium on the Bosphorus. He built the city from 324 to 330. It had Christian architecture. Churches were allowed in the city limits. No pagan temples were built. Rome had yet to build churches.
The capital was renamed for him. He convened the Council of Nicea in 325 to resolve the Arian controversy. The Nicene Creed was composed during this conference. The creed declared that the Church was to be one holy catholic and apostolic.
Constantine died in 337. He had 3 sons. Constantine II ruled Spain, France and Britain. He was killed when he tried to take Italy from his brother Constans. Constans added his brother's territory to his own.
He was killed in 350 when his army revolted against him with Magnentius. Constantius, the ruler for the Eastern empire, gathered his forces, defeated Magnentius and took the entire empire.
Constantius had outlawed pagan sacrifice in 341. He had all pagan temples closed in 346. He decreed the death penalty for pagan sacrifice in 356. The severity against polytheism was not his only involvement in religion.
Constantius objected to the term homoousias, meaning of the same nature, to describe Christ. He favored the term homoiousias, of a similar nature, along with the Arians. Orthdox Christians were deprived of their positions as bishops. Their churches were given to semi-Arians.
Constantius had no children from which to select a successor. He selected Julian, the husband to his sister. He made the selection even though Julian was an ardent classical scholar. Neo-Platonism was fashionable as a philosophy among both Christians and non-Christians in the 4th century. He managed to keep his passion for paganism in classical culture hidden from Constantius, his brother-in-law.
Julian did what he could to restore polytheism as a religion when he became emperor in 361. He opened the temples that had been closed. He recruited and re-organized a clergy to compete with the Christians. He restored Christians who had been categorized as heretical by the Ecumenical Council. He had Orthodox Christians removed from teaching positions.
Plato had taught reincarnation in his philosophy. Julian saw himself as a reincarnate Alexander the Great. When he received report of a threat from the border near Persia, he set off to conquer their empire. He was killed in battle at the age of 32. The year was 363.
Usurpations, rebellions and barbarian invasions threatened the stability of the empire in the years that followed the death of Julian. Jovian took over as emperor. He reversed Julian's anti-Christian edicts.
He nominated Valentinian as his heir, then died. Valentinian made his brother Valens the emperor for the east.
Ambrose was chosen as the bishop of Milan in 374. Valentinian died in 375. Gratian is elected as his successor. Valens was killed in 379. Gratian nominated Theodosius the Great as his replacement.
Theodosius took over the eastern portion of the empire in 379. He authorized the use of the death penalty for pagan sacrifice. He declared Nicene Christianity to be the legal religion for the empire in 380. He convended the Council of Constantinople in 381.
The First Council of Constantinople was not convened until 381. It approved the current form for the Nicene Creed. It also condemned the teaching of Apollinarius as false. He had argued that there was no human mind or soul in Christ. The council awarded honorary precedence over all churches except for Rome.
Honorius was the emperor in the west in 423. His brother Arcadius was in the east.
Honorius was celebrating a victory over the Goths at the Roman Colosseum when the games were interrupted by an Egyptian monk named Telemachus. He pleaded for the games to stop. He was killed. The emperor decreed a stop to the games in 399. The Colosseum was closed in 405.
The games had been started as a pagan rite for human sacrifice to propitiate the anger of the gods for wrong associated with the death of a public official. Closing the games was an inevitable consequence for the rise of Christianity as the official religion.
John Chrysostom criticized rich nobles for their cruelty to slaves sometime around 401 when he was Patriarch of Constantinople.
Aurelius Augustine
Ambrose baptized Augustine and his son, Adeodatus, in Milan during the Easter Vigil on April 24-25, 387. He was ordained a priest in Hippo in 391. He was elevated to the rank of bishop in 395. He wrote his Confessions soon after his consecration. He remained in that position until his death in 430.
The City of God was first published in 426.
Italy
Ostrogoths invaded northern Italy in 405. The force led by Radagaisus attacked Florence. The next year Stilicho recruited soldiers from slaves by offering them freedom and two pieces of gold. He forced the Germans to retreat to Fiesole, where they were starved into surrender. The Germans who were not slaughtered were sold as slaves. Radagaisus was beheaded even though he capitulated.
Honorius learned of his brother's death in 408 while returning to Ravenna. Stilicho persuaded the western emperor to allow him to go to Constantinople to protect young Theodosius. Alaric, leader of the Goths, was sent as a master general of imperial armies against Constantine in Gaul.
The minister Olympius made Honorius suspect that Stilicho was going to kill Theodosius II. A military revolt killed many of the top officials attending on Honorius. Stilicho marched to Ravenna, but he was executed by Heraclian.
Honorius excluded those who were not Catholic from office. The policy rejected many skilled pagans and Arian barbarians. Roman troops were accused of killing barbarian auxiliaries. A large number of foreign soldiers were stimulated to join Alaric in Noricum.
Alaric offered to withdraw into Pannonia for more money and an exchange of hostages, but Honorius, guided by his minister Olympius, declined. Alaric entered Italy for the third time and besieged Rome in 408.
The Roman empire had six emperors in 410: Honorius and his nephew Theodosius, Attalus at Rome, Constantine and Constans at Arles and Maximus at Tarragona.
The patriarch Theophilus was succeeded by his nephew Cyril of Alexandria in 412. The neo-Platonic philosopher Hypatia was in her forties. She was admired for her beauty and wisdom. She lectured to large crowds. She was the friend of the pagan prefect for Egypt Orestes.
Cyril menaced the Jews. Some Christians were killed. Cyril banished the Jewish and allowed their property to be taken. Orestes was insulted by a large crowd of monks. One who hit him with a stone was executed. He was hailed as a martyr by Cyril.
Another group of angry monks believed that Hypatia hindered reconciliation between Orestes and Cyril. They dragged her to a church, tore off her garments and it is reported that they dismembered her.
Theodosius II married Athenian-educated Eudocia in 421. Two years later she was declared Augusta. Honorius allowed Constantius to be crowned Augustus and his wife Placidia Augusta in the same year. Young Theodosius and his sister Pulcheria did not recognize the elevation in rank in Constantinople. Constantius died seven months later. Placidia took refuge with her family in Constantinople. Honorius died in 423 after a 28 year reign.
Theodosius and Pulcheria supported Placidia and her 4-year-old son Valentinian as opposed to a usurper named John. Placidia agreed to return Dalmatia and part of Pannonia to the East. Theodosius exiled John's envoys and sent a large army commanded by Ardaburius and his son Aspar to take Ravenna. They were accompanied by Placidia and Valentinian.
The fleet that carried them was scattered in a storm. Ardaburius was captured and taken to Ravenna. Aspar attacked the city. John was captured and publicly executed before Aetius arrived with an army of Huns. Aetius as a boy had been a hostage with Alaric and with the Huns. Aetius agreed to support Placidia. The Huns were bought off with money and returned to their homes. Valentinian III was named Augustus at Rome in 425.
Sixtus III
Sixtus was a prominent priest in Rome prior to his elevation to the papal office. He corresponded extensively with Augustine of Hippo. He was chosen as the 44th pope on 31 July 432.
The Council of Ephesus was convened in 431 to settle the Christological controversy surrounding Nestorius. Nestorius was the Patriarch for Constantinople (428-431).
His teaching rejected the long-used title of Theotokos for Mary the mother of Jesus. The debate over Christ's human and divine natures turned on whether Mary could legitimately be called the "Mother of God" or only "Mother of Christ". He had taught that Christ's divine and human nature were distinct persons. Mary was the mother of Christ but not the mother of God.
The council gave her the Greek title Theotokos (literally "God-bearer", or "Mother of God") It is regarded as an integral part of the tradition that supports Christian theology. Nestorius was deposed. The title was retained. Sixtus approved the results for the council. A large church was built in Rome and dedicated to the Mother of God as a response to the decision of that council
He fought Nestorianism and Pelagianism. Pelagius had taught that a sin-less life could achieve salvation by the work of asceticism. This salvation was attainable by free will. The Council of Carthage had condemned his teaching as heretical in 418.
Jerome identified Pelagius as Irish. Pelagius was highly educated. He spoke and wrote Latin and Greek fluently. He became better known when he moved to Rome around 380. He enjoyed a reputation for austerity.
Pelagius was concerned with the moral laxity of society. He blamed the laxity on the theology of divine grace that was preached by Augustine. He began to teach a very strict, rigid moralism that emphasized a natural, innate human ability to attain salvation
Sixtus was associated with the construction and restoration of a number of churches in Rome. He restored several Roman basilicas while he was pope. These included Saint Peter’s and Saint John Lateran.
Old St. Peter's Basilica was the 4th-century church begun by the Emperor Constantine the Great between 319 and 333. Both this church and its successor had the entrance to the east and the apse at the west end of the building like all the earliest churches in Rome.
Santa Sabina on the Aventine Hill was dedicated during his pontificate. He built the Liberian Basilica as Santa Maria Maggiore, whose dedication to Mary the Mother of God reflected his acceptance of the Ecumenical council of Ephesus which closed in 431.
He defended the supremacy of the pope over local bishops. He asserted jurisdiction in Illyria when the emperor wanted to transfer it to the control of Constantinople. He held that the position of the archbishop of Thessalonica was head of the local Illyrian church. The position was defended against the ambition of Proclus of Constantinople.
He attempted to restore peace between Cyril of Alexandria and John of Antioch.
Sixtus died in Rome on 28 March 440.
Sixtus
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西 Xi the West 西 sei west Shiks しくす シクス Sigseu 식스 six
斯 si this 斯 shi this tus とぅす トゥス tuseu 투스 tooth
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This is the west.
Do your best.
Let God do the rest.
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https://www.unrv.com/empire/timeline-4th-century.php
http://www3.northern.edu/marmorsa/4thcentlec2004.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_seven_ecumenical_councils#First_Council_of_Constantinople_(381)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_the_5th_century
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelagius#Beginnings
James Solomon Russell
(December 20, 1857- March 28, 1935)
James Solomon Russell was born enslaved in Mecklenberg County Virginia shortly before the American Civil War. He became an Episcopal priest and educator. Russell founded Saint Paul Normal and Industrial School. This later became Saint Paul's College. He declined two elections to become bishop to continue the direction for that (now-closed) historically black college.
James Russell was born on the Hendrick plantation in Mecklenburg County. His family began sharecropping in Palmer Springs, Virginia after the Civil War. James began attending a local school whose schoolmaster allowed tuition to be paid in labor and farm products. The schoolmaster and superintendent encouraged him to continue his education.
He was admitted to the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in 1874. Financial constraints required that he support himself. He began to teach near home. He also worked when the college was not in session. Russell decided to become a member of the Episcopal Church around this time. He secured admission to the newly formed Bishop Payne Divinity School in 1878.
Bishop Whittle ordained Russell a deacon on March 9, 1882. He sent him as a missionary back to Mecklenburg County. He worked in Lawrenceville, Virginia. The diocese authorized funds to build a church for his parishioners as well as a horse to assist on his missionary travels. He was ordained as a priest in 1887.
Russell and his wife began teaching African Americans in a room at the tiny new church in January 1883. This expanded and eventually became Saint Paul Normal and Industrial School. It expanded its enrollment and curriculum due to his enthusiasm and aggressive fund-raising effort.
Rev. Russell was named Archdeacon of the newly formed Diocese of Southern Virginia in 1893. He was charged with working among African Americans. The number of African American churches in his diocese increased from none to 37 as a result of his ministry. The churches had more than 2000 communicants.
He later became the first African American to be named to the Board of Missions of the Episcopal Church. He served in that capacity from 1923-1931. Russell was elected as Suffragan Bishop of Arkansas in 1917, but declined the honor in order to continue his work at the school. He also declined when notified of his election as Suffragan Bishop of North Carolina.
Russell founded an annual farmer's conference in 1904. He was inspired by Booker T. Washington. He urged African American farmers to stay out of debt and to vote despite the institution of poll taxes and Jim Crow laws by Virginia's Constitution in 1902.
Archdeacon Russell was awarded an honorary degree from the Virginia Theological Seminary in 1917. He was the first African American thus honored. He was also granted an honorary doctorate in laws from Monrovia College in 1922. He was named Knight Commander of the Humane Order of African Redemption by the President of Liberia. He won the Harmon Award in 1929.
James Solomon Russell died at the President's house in Lawrenceville on March 28, 1935 after an extended illness. He was buried at the school cemetery. Archdeacon Russell's autobiography, Adventure in Faith, was published in 1935.
The historically black college developed financial problems after the success of the American Civil Rights Movement. It closed in 2013.
James Russell
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姆 mu matron 姆 bo wet nurse Ru らっ ラッ
斯 si this 斯 shi this seru せる セル
罗 Luo to catch 羅 ra gauze Jeimsu 제임스 James
素 su element 素 su principle Leo 러 the
sel 셀 cell
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The principle element for matter
has been identified as hydrogen for the mad hatter.
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