Latro

Fernando Q. Gouvea · 28 Apr 2015, 14:55 · from 2015-April.txt.gz

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From: fqgouvea at colby.edu (Fernando Q. Gouvea)
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:55:01 -0400
Subject: (urth) Latro
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And in fact plenty of evidence against it, including in ancient (but 
post-New Testament) Christian writings.

I'll restrain myself from commenting on those sermons. Sheesh.

Fernando

On 4/27/2015 1:23 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> I've heard that about the needle's eye gate, too, but according to 
> Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_a_needle#Gate), there's 
> no real evidence for it.
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Norwood, Frederick Hudson 
> <NORWOODR at mail.etsu.edu <mailto:NORWOODR at mail.etsu.edu>> wrote:
>
>     I no longer go to church, but when I did the sermons were mostly
>     about the importance for Christians to always vote for the
>     Republican party.  I remember one sermon about the camel passing
>     through the eye of a needle.  The preacher explained that "the eye
>     of a needle" was the name of the gate that the rich used to enter
>     Jerusalem and so the point of the parable is that naturally the
>     rich would use that gate to enter heaven.
>
>     Rick
>
>

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Fernando Q. Gouvea         http://www.colby.edu/~fqgouvea
Carter Professor and Chair
Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics
Colby College              Editor, Carus Mathematical Monographs
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