Did others receive ancient messages?

[Prof Steven P Hill]

Dear colleagues:

Shades of the past (23 years ago).  

In the batch of SEELANGS current posts which I received today (when I clicked "Reply" to 
the "Index" & sent that to "Seelangs-Search-Request," as I do daily), the batch of messages 
contained mainly various posts about "psychoanalysis" and "translation question."  So far 
so good.

But mixed in among those legitimate current messages were TWO ANCIENT "GHOST 
MESSAGES," from Jouko Lindstedt (1993) and Richard & Joanna Robin (1991).  
They are attached below.   DID ANYONE ELSE RECEIVE THOSE 2 GHOST MESSAGES 
today? -- Steven P Hill, Univ. of Illinois. 
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Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1993 15:52:56 +0300 
From: Jouko Lindstedt <jslindst at WALTARI.HELSINKI.FI> 
Subject: injustus aut impotens 



In the Slavonic Vita Constantini (Cyrilli), probably dating from the 
IX century, St. Cyril explains why God has given equal rights to all 
nations and languages, and makes use of an argument which Grivec has 
translated from Church Slavonic into Latin as follows: 

 "Dicite mihi, utrum Deum facientes debilem, ita ut non possit 
  hoc dare, an invidum, ita ut nolit?" 

(XVI:6 of the Vita Constantini, where those who read Church Slavonic 
can check the original wording.) I.e., since something is right, God 
should be either weak or evil if he didn't grant it. The editions of 
VC I have checked (Grivec & Tomsic, Angelov & Kodov) do not seem to 
be aware of any source for this argument. Now, there is something 
very similar in Cur Deus homo of Anselm of Canterbury, liber II, 
caput XIX (or caput XX according to another numbering): 

 "Imo necesse esse video ut Pater Filio retribuat: alioquin aut 
  injustus esse videtur, si nollet, aut impotens, si non posset, 
  quae aliena sunt a Deo." (PL vol. 158) 

This is an almost identical argument -- albeit for a different cause. 
What could be the primary source, perhaps some Father of the Church? 

Jouko Lindstedt 
Institutum Slavicum, Universitas Helsingiensis 
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Department of Slavonic Languages, University of Helsinki 
<jslindst at waltari.Helsinki.Fi> or <Jouko.Lindstedt at Helsinki.Fi> 
letters: P.O.Box 4, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland 
fax: +358-0-1912974 
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Date: Mon, 20 May 91 17:19:56 EDT 
From: Richard and Joanna Robin <ROBIN at GWUVM.BITNET> 


as follows: 

johndoe at igc.org 

That should do it. 
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