Word: propter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Black may be white, and Mr. Baker may be Galahad fresh from the Table Round, as the Bar tactfully suggested, but public opinion has been quite definitely on the other side. One would, of course, like to think that the appointment is a case of "post hoc sed non propter hoc," and this thesis is just about as sincere as Mussolini's recent self-appointment as the Abraham Lincoln of the dark continent...
...vitam temere judicent, si quid eos fortasse reprehensibiliter vident"; in hasty translation "subjects must be admonished not to judge rashly of the conduct of their rulers, even if they see them, by chance, acting reprehensibly." In Ambrosiaster's "Quaestiones Veteris et Novi Testamenti", XXXV, the ruler "Honorandusest, si non propter se, vel propter ordinem"; "he must be honored, if not for himself, then for his position." And so it goes, everywhere in the standard ecclesiastical commentary on the Old Testament, as well as in the Old Testament itself, this same submission to the ruler is ordained...