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To: Antoninus
I'm not bringing it into the text, Gregory the Great did--one of the great saints of the Church.

Maybe he was. Do you mean he is in the top 1%? How do you know this?

Did he outrank the widow who gave her only mite?

So to revise and extend my remarks, Gregory, while reputedly a nice guy, seemingly did poorly in any classes he took on Biblical Studies, Systematic Theology, Koine Greek, etc., or he would not have made these false claims. Especially in print to mislead others. He was human after all and didn't know everything.

It appears you simply repeated what he wrongly claimed and are making no claims of your own to know the meaning of Scripture.

Thank you for the chance to correct the record. I hope that is sufficient.

Now, will you please post any evidence from before 100 ad that shows Ol' Greg's claims to be Apostolic?

Thanks in advance.

62 posted on 03/13/2019 11:22:57 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
So to revise and extend my remarks, Gregory, while reputedly a nice guy, seemingly did poorly in any classes he took on Biblical Studies, Systematic Theology, Koine Greek, etc., or he would not have made these false claims.

Perfectly said. A man who lived in ancient times, steeped to his eyeballs in the Christianity of the Greco-Roman world, even to the point of devoting his life to the study of sacred scripture, combating Donatism, serving the victims of war and famine, and advancing Christian music and worship, is denigrated because he "was a poor student of the Bible."

It is to laugh.

In his Institutes, Calvin quotes extravagantly from Gregory the Great. Funny that he would do if Gregory were all the things you say he was.
78 posted on 03/13/2019 11:54:18 AM PDT by Antoninus ("In Washington, swamp drain you.")
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