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I'm rather astounded by the exacting beauty of the way the views of the Papacy were expressed.
Pope Innocent III chastised and then ex-communicated the Venetian and Frankish Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade for their siege and sack of Zara, a Christian city on the Dalmatian coast with:
"...For behold, gold has been changed to a base metal and the silver has almost completely rusted, since, departing from the purity of your plan, you have turned in envy from the path, as though you have withdrawn your hand from the plow and have looked back with Lot's wife..."
I'm no Bible-thumper and I've a vague notion of who this Lot character is, but that bit about the rust and base metal is expressive in a way that's lost nowadays. When I look up the Lot reference, I'm willing to bet I'll like it even more.
Yeah, tell me something like that that and I'll cover your drinks some future evening.
Pope Innocent III chastised and then ex-communicated the Venetian and Frankish Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade for their siege and sack of Zara, a Christian city on the Dalmatian coast with:
"...For behold, gold has been changed to a base metal and the silver has almost completely rusted, since, departing from the purity of your plan, you have turned in envy from the path, as though you have withdrawn your hand from the plow and have looked back with Lot's wife..."
I'm no Bible-thumper and I've a vague notion of who this Lot character is, but that bit about the rust and base metal is expressive in a way that's lost nowadays. When I look up the Lot reference, I'm willing to bet I'll like it even more.
Yeah, tell me something like that that and I'll cover your drinks some future evening.