Joseph Justus Scaliger on Calvin and Vermigli: Or, Always Check Your Sources
On quotations and secondary sources.
On quotations and secondary sources.
After the Latin of Henrik Harder.
A poem.
What can meter do?
Two poems based on Psalm 130.
Some poems on Matthew 20:1-16.
On how to look backward.
During the break, I was watching some reruns of Home Improvement, that great Tim Allen vehicle of the 1990s. In S5E6, “Let Them Eat Cake,” Brad, one of the Taylor…
Here is Melanchthon on Romans 13 from the Dispositio orationis in Epistolam Pauli ad Romanos with the next two paragraphs added. Translation Romans 13 Proposition: “Let everyone be subject to his own…
On the necessity of civil ordinances, such as laws, contracts, and courts.
On respect for magistrates.
Melanchthon on Romans 13 and Plato's Republic.
More from Melanchthon on Romans 13.
The first in a series on Melanchthon on Romans 13.
An excerpt from Philip Melanchthon's "Summary of Moral Philosophy" on being thankful.
Have you ever wondered about St. Augustine's "restless heart"?
On Binx Bolling and the Red Sea.
Vergil in (maybe) Shakespeare and Dylan.
What does geography tell us about the religious world of Walker Percy's The Moviegoer?
Does Eliot allude to Apollonius of Rhodes in "The Waste Land"?
Apollonian echoes in Cavafy?
On "wrath" in the Iliad and the Argonautika.
On Bob Dylan as a reader of T.S. Eliot.
More allusivity in Bob Dylan, this time in "Crossing the Rubicon."
Niels Hemmingsen on rulers as shepherds.
Some allusions in Bob Dylan's "Tight Connection to My Heart" (Empire Burlesque, 1985).
More on Homer in Dylan.
A new translation of Beza's poem on Peter Martyr Vermigli.
An excerpt from Paulinus of Nola's miniature epic on St. John the Baptist, on the occasion of the commemoration of St. John's martyrdom.
The figure of zeugma in Vergil's AENEID and Bob Dylan's "Isis."
On the prosody of Horace and Bob Dylan.
On T.S. Eliot's creative use of a play he hated in his most famous poem.
On the visual in the verbal, the timeless in the temporal.
One-upping the Romans in Christian epic.
Metrical Martin Luther.
Vergil (and Ovid?) in Longfellow.
The sources for Tennyson’s great poem Ulysses are almost as, shall we say, polytropic as Homer’s Odysseus. But one of them, I am convinced, is Hamlet’s soliloquy in Hamlet 4.4,…
On Bob Dylan, Bobby Darin, and Wallace Stevens.
Political Vergil in domestic Ovid.
In “Narrow Way,” on the 2012 album Tempest, Bob Dylan sings: You got too many lovers waiting at the wallIf I had a thousand tongues I couldn’t count them allYesterday…
An allusion to "Tombstone" in "Thunder on the Mountain"?
On a peculiar phrase in St. Augustine's Confessions.
On Mikhail Zoshchenko, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Franz Kafka.
The afterlife of a phrase about death.
A new translation of Henrik Harder.
More on classical references in Luther's lectures and commentary on Psalm 90.
The first post in what it is hoped will be a series on Luther's use of the classics in his lectures on Psalm 90.
A theory on Catullus and the end of Vergil's Aeneid.
Melanchthon on the meaning of "good" in the Bible, Stoicism, and Aristotle.
A poetic version of the "Song of Simeon," based on the fourth-century Latin poet Juvencus.
On poetic inspiration and transmigration in Homer, Ennius, Buddy Holly, and Bob Dylan.
On a Dylan allusion in the live version of Warren Zevon's "Mohammed's Radio."
On internal allusions in Bob Dylan's lyrics.
Speaking poetically in the works of A.E. Housman, Hank Williams, and Bob Dylan.
On a possible allusion of Bob Dylan to Nathaniel Hawthorne.
On Bob Dylan and MOBY-DICK.
On Conan the Barbarian and Euripides.
On an Ovidian allusion in Melville's last novel.
On a citation of Lucretius by Martin Luther.
On Euripides in the Acts of the Apostles.
On Marx reading Aeschylus (in Greek!).
On Gibbon and the causes of decline.
On Luther, Catullus, and Ecclesiastes.
“I Contain Multitudes” is the opening track on Bob Dylan’s 2020 album Rough and Rowdy Ways. The title is an allusion to Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself, 51“: The past…
More on Luther and Catullus 64.
On translating poetry.
Did Catullus help Martin Luther formulate the doctrine of justification?
On history in Rousseau, Gibbon, and Burke.
On Edward Gibbond and "defending Democracy."
Thomas Kuhn on the European background of science.
More from Luther on classical political philosophy.
More from Luther on obcenity, this time in Roman comedy.
Martin Luther on a controversial Roman poet.
More from Luther on the causes of political order.
Get ready to have some paradigms shattered.
Martin Luther on Aristotle and Cicero (with a bonus from Ovid for good measure).
Edward Gibbon on what made Rome a "great nation."
An epigram on the love and fear of God.
Here is the seventh poem in Georg Fabricius’s hymn cycle. Here is a link to the sixth. The meter and rhyme-scheme is the same as the others. The Latin text:…
Philip Melanchthon on Alexander the Great, on the anniversary of the latter's death.
Regardless of the purity of the perpetrator’s motives, it is not without some justification that one might say terrorism should be frowned upon. This is a lesson that has proven…
A prayer found in Philip Melanchthon's oration on Basil of Caesarea.
Does Bob Dylan read Thornton Wilder?
Exposition Southerners are often thought of–and often thought of themselves–as having been the conservatives in the American sectional conflict, desiring to preserve traditional modes of life against the innovative Northerners.…
On Euripides's Medea and the Fugitive Slave Law.
An epigram on whether uncles are what's for dinner.
A new version of an old post on Melanchthon's thoughts shortly before his death.
Thornton Wilder and C.S. Lewis on reading masterpieces.
A possible allusion to Aristophanes in Thornton Wilder's The Woman of Andros.
What light does Shelby Foote shed on Tolkien's "sub-creation"?
A limerick about how the White House has managed to make misleading the public not just bad, but boring.
A passage on eclipses from Book 1 of Cicero's Republic.
In the first chapter of his novel Shiloh, Shelby Foote has Lieutenant Palmer Metcalfe of New Orleans say the following about his thoughts while falling asleep on the eve of…
Today (March 26) is Robert Frost’s birthday. (This “modern” poet was born only nine years after the conclusion of the Civil War. History is bizarre.) A while back, I started…
On the occurrence of the Greek word φιλανθρωπία (God's love for man).
Light verse on bad comedy.
Print-only essay by E. J. Hutchinson, Winter 2020 issue. Full text being migrated.
A new translation of Melanchthon's commentary on Proverbs disappoints, says E.J. Hutchinson.
Uncovering the influence of Homer on Philip Melanchthon.
An original translation of a Philip Melanchthon poem for the Nativity of John the Baptist.
The first English translation of Philip Melanchthon's "Is Philosophy a Hindrance to Piety?"
Eric Hutchinson on the mark Bob Dylan's music has left on the American imagination
Eric Hutchinson translates a Palm Sunday poem from the Greek Anthology
A translation of a Greek epigram by E. J. Hutchinson
An original translation of a fifth century Latin hymn.
Both Christian and pagan alike sense that spring is the original state of the world. Fall, on the other hand, comes from the Fall.
It is significant that Christ not only healed a man, but that, in order for the man to be healed, others had to bring him to Christ.
Hemmingsen’s discussion contains a salutary reminder that we are to receive God’s good created gifts with gratitude and acknowledgment. If we do not, we are robbing God.
Christian justice, as Hemmingsen defines it, is "the obedience of Christ imputed to the one who believes." The one who is just "evangelically," or "according to the gospel," is the one whose sins are forgiven and to whom the justice of the Son has been imputed.
Not many passages in the New Testament speak directly to political order. The first part of the thirteenth chapter of Romans is perhaps the most famous. I would like to focus in this essay on vv. 3-4, which may appear prima facie to be something of an interpretive crux. Are these verses descriptive or prescriptive? That is, are they simply declarative, or are they imperatival, telling us what magistrates ought to do?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] John Calvin: More Lutheran or Zwinglian? Everybody knows that Calvin was closer to Zurich than to Wittenberg. What this essay presupposes is: Maybe he wasn’t? In fact, Calvin…
This article appeared in Volume II, Issue 4 of Ad Fontes.
