when the wolves eat....

the evangelists:

Am I not a disciple of the Logos? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord?

Who spawns enmity at any time against his own? Who plants a vineyard and doesn't partake of it? And who feeds and tends a flock without having the milk of it?

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak; I try to get along with all men, that I might save some. Though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant to many, that I might gain the more unto the cause for Christ.

the wolves:

Do we not crawl on our bellies? Are we not tied to the earth? Have we no truth beyond?

Do we not eat our weak ones? Do we not try to eat everything else?

notes:

As I paraphrased, "I owe my people the truth."

The divine Logos, after all, is truth, light for light's sake--coming into its own, of its own being--

--perhaps in the very beginning of the concept of love, in a universe otherwise blind to sufferings.

At some point, Abraham Maslow pointed at it:

on full bellies, we ascend our mountain on the idea that we deposit social capital among our group.

In other words, with the house built, and the garden tended, Thoreau swam in the pond.  Thoreau read of Virgil and Homer.  Thoreau visited neighbors.

I saw it with my own eyes: a man completes his duty, say for the day or week, and then on to the higher arts.  The very Netflix of the spirit: servitude, fellowship, shepherding. And yet there is the very oven of existence for so many, to fulfill their claim of duty, the claim of humanity among the others: then the streambox.

The Netflix that is the Netflix.

As I paraphrase Paul, "I owe them the truth."

Mutating the words of John, Paul, James, Peter: "Of recent have I seen, beheld, the truth--that no sin is without a mercy in waiting--no mercy is without its sin--and even the demons in hell believe. I owe the truth to my people in meakness and "fear", in gentleness and respect, in decency and humility. To call upon the name of the Lord brings to you the cup of forgiveness. Just call on the name of the Lord."

When the wolves are fed, they sleep.

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