Kata Markon

["Dennis MacDonald" <dmacdon AT cst.edu>]

FYI

CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS
"Luke and Mimesis: Imitations of Classical Literature in Luke-Acts"
March 13-16, 2003

The Institute for Antiquity and Christianity is pleased to invite 
conference-paper proposals. Suggested topics include literary imitations of 
Homer, Euripides, Plato, and Vergil. Other related topics are welcome. 
Proposals will consist of a title and abstract. Limited grants are 
available to assist with housing costs. Send proposals to Leslie Hayes, 831 
N. Dartmouth, Claremont, CA  91711.
Proposal Deadline: November 20, 2002
For further information, contact the IAC at iac AT cgu.edu



-----Original Message-----
From:   Rick Frommich [SMTP:eugor3 AT hotmail.com]
Sent:   Thursday, May 09, 2002 1:15 AM
To:     Kata Markon
Subject:        [gmark] Paul and Socrates by way of Plato


Through a glass darkly

360 BC PHAEDO by Plato

I should very much like to hear that, he replied.
Socrates proceeded: I thought that as I had failed in the contemplation of
true existence, I ought to be careful that I did not lose the eye of my
soul; as people may injure their bodily eye by observing and gazing on the
sun during an eclipse, unless they take the precaution of only looking at
the image reflected in the water, or in some similar medium. That occurred
to me, and I was afraid that my soul might be blinded altogether if I 
looked
at things with my eyes or tried by the help of the senses to apprehend 
them.
1Cor13 And I thought that I had better have recourse to ideas, and seek in
them the truth of existence. I dare say that the simile is not perfect-for 
I
am very far from admitting that he who contemplates existence through the
medium of ideas, sees them only "through a glass darkly," any more than he
who sees them in their working and effects. However, this was the method
which I adopted: I first assumed some principle which I judged to be the
strongest, and then I affirmed as true whatever seemed to agree with this,
whether relating to the cause or to anything else; and that which disagreed 

I regarded as untrue. But I should like to explain my meaning clearly, as I 

do not think that you understand me.

KJV 1Co 13:12 For now we see through a glass,
darkly; but then face to face: now I know in
part; but then shall I know even as also I am
known.

Many have declared that Paul's thought concerning the physical body and the 

soul were derived from Plato. Here is stong evidence that Paul did indeed
read Plato.

Rick Richmond


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