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Sorry for sending this message for the third time - I am just testing (after a 2-months gap, I am now receiving the messages, but sending is a different matter - so this is a test) Luciana Cuppo Csaki [log in to unmask] http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/9891 ----- Original Message ----- From: "LCC" <[log in to unmask]> To: "Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture" <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 11:02 AM Subject: Fw: Re: fire and ice in hell > > Luciana Cuppo Csaki > [log in to unmask] > http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/9891 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "LCC" <[log in to unmask]> > To: "Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture" > <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 9:55 PM > Subject: Re: Re: fire and ice in hell > > > > > > Luciana Cuppo Csaki > > [log in to unmask] > > http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/9891 > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "B.M.COOK" <[log in to unmask]> > > To: <[log in to unmask] > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Otfried Lieberknecht" <[log in to unmask]> > > > To: <[log in to unmask]> > > > Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 > > > > > > > > > > - fire and ice in hell > > > > > > > Myth and geography come together dramatically in Iceland. > > > HEKLA perpetuis / > > > damnata e(?)stib. et ni-/ > > > uib horrendo boat(?)u / > > > lapides evomit. > > > > <Lotharius, aka Pope Innocent III, was quite familiar with the torment of > > Hecla 'damned to fire and snow everlasting' (perpetuis damnata aestibus et > > nivibus, I would think). The damned, he wrote, 'de aquis nivium transibunt > > ad calorem nimium' ut subita contrariorum mutatio graviorem inferat > > cruciatum. Experimento cognovi quod adustus, si frigidis statim > adhibeatur, > > ardenciorem senciet cruciatum." Lotharius was of course paraphrasing Job > > 24.19 (Vulgate), 'ad nimium calorem transeat ab aquis nivium' and, need I > > add, for Lotharius and Job hell was no myth. > > Cheerfully, > > Luciana > > >