Coredemptrix

[Ernest Sjogren]

> With regard to Daniel's Q.E.D., "Alice through the Looking Glass" springs 
> to mind . . .

instead of a logical refutation of his argument.  You would prefer to 
retreat into fiction, it appears.

"Deified" means nothing other than "made a god of; raised to the position of 
a god," of course.  If your objection to referring to Mary as a deity is (if 
I may summarize how the argument progressed), "no Orthodox Christian, nor 
any other Christian. nor _anyone_ who has looked deeply into the matter 
thinks of or would refer to Mary as a deity," then the quotations cited are 
quite to the point.  You ignore "quod _est demonstratum_" at your peril.

Prof. Dumanis' assertion that "обожествлять" merely means "to admire" is 
much more pertinent.  However, is it tenable?   See, for instance, the 
online version of the Ushakov dictionary, which says:

ОБОЖЕСТВИ́ТЬ, обожествлю, обожествишь, ·совер. (к обожествлять), кого-что 
(·книж. ). Признать имеющим сверхъестественную, божественную силу, 
божеством. Древние обожествили силы природы.

[koi8-r encoding, see 
<http://www.classes.ru/all-russian/russian-dictionary-Ushakov-term-37283.htm> 
if my quotation is scrambled in transmission].

Ernie Sjogren 

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