Hannah wrote:
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> Dear fellow list-members,
>
> I'm wondering if anyone can point me to a comment I remember reading, in which
> the use of secular or pagan learning in Christian study is compared to the
> spoils taken by the Israelites from the Egyptians. I think this is from
> Gregory the Great, but am not sure where, or whether the analogy is found
> earlier.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Hannah Williams
> Monash University
> Victoria, 3800
> Australia
It is in Cassiodorus, if memory serves me right, and I'll dig the
citation in my next message. Luciana
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