 It does not help us in our hope of the life to come. It is enough to know what Scripture states. Why then argue? But a century and a half after St. Ambrose, opinion was still troubled, on this occasion by the problem of the antipodes. A monk  Public Opinion - 第 3 頁Walter Lippmann 著 - 1922 - 427 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Henry Osborn Taylor - 1927 - 636 頁
...laws for him except the will of God. " To discuss the nature and position of the earth," says he, " does not help us in our hope of the life to come. It is enough to know what Scripture states, ' that He hung up the earth upon nothing ' (Job xxvi. 7). Why then argue whether He hung it up in air... | |
 | J. R. S. Phillips - 1998 - 358 頁
...Augustine's master St Ambrose, who argued that ‘to consider the nature and position of the earth does not help us in our hope of the life to come'. In the same century St Basil the Great remarked that if the Bible had nothing to say on a subject such... | |
 | Pierre Gassendi, Olivier Thill - 2002 - 370 頁
...almost the same way". St. Ambrose (c. 340-397) wrote, "To discuss the nature and position of the earth does not help us in our hope of the life to come," But, around 420 AD, in the City of God, XVI, 9, Augustine wrote: "The legend that there are antipodes,... | |
 | Timothy Ferris - 2010 - 516 頁
...doomed? As Saint Ambrose put it in the fourth century, “To discuss the nature and position of the earth does not help us in our hope of the life to come.” Wrote Tertullian the Christian convert, “For us, curiosity is no longer necessary.” To the Christians,... | |
 | Hasan S. Padamsee - 2002 - 708 頁
...considered far more valuable. St Ambrose wrote [3]: To discuss the nature and position of the earth does not help us in our hope of the life to come. In spurning Greek culture, Christian thinkers attached a derogatory connotation to everything pagan... | |
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