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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture I suppose the author is paraphrasing (from memory) Gamaliel's advice in Acts 5.38-9: Et nunc itaque dico vobis, discedite ab hominibus istis, et sinite illos: quoniam si est ex hominibus consilium hoc, aut opus, dissolvetur: si vero ex Deo est, non poteritis dissolvere illud, ne forte et Deo repugnare inveniamini. John McCulloh wrote: > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture > > I am working with a passage that I think contains a quotation, and if so, > I would like to identify the source. > > The text is Thomas of Monmouth's Life and Miracles of St. William of > Norwich, edited by Augustus Jessopp and M. R. James. In the passage in > question, Thomas is trying to defend the authenticity of William's > miracles against critics who claim that William is not a saint and the > miracles are fakes. He writes: > > Que nisi nutu diuino fierent, tamdiu nequaquam perseuerassent; quoniam que > ex deo non sunt per se citius dispereunt. (p. 61) > > J&J translate the sentence, thus: "The which [i.e. miracles], if they had > not been wrought by divine power, could by no means have continued so > long, since those things which are not of God very soon pass away." > > The latter part of the statement (que ex deo non sunt ....) sounds > biblical to me, but I have had no success identifying it. I have tried > biblical concordances and the PL data base (but I haven't much expertise > in using the latter). I would welcome additional ideas. > > Thanks for any help you can provide. > > John > > > John M. McCulloh [log in to unmask] > History Department 785-532-0373 > Eisenhower Hall > Kansas State University > Manhattan, KS 66506 > > ********************************************************************** > To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME > to: [log in to unmask] > To send a message to the list, address it to: > [log in to unmask] > To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion > to: [log in to unmask] > In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: > [log in to unmask] > For further information, visit our web site: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html -- Abigail Ann Young (Dr), Associate Editor/ Records of Early English Drama/ Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W/ Toronto Ontario Canada Phone (416) 585-4504/ FAX (416) 813-4093/ [log in to unmask] List-owner of REED-L <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed-l.html> http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed.html => REED's home page http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/stage.html => our theatre resource page http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~young => my home page ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html