Comments on: Sudoku of the Saints and Sages http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/05/15/sudoku-of-the-saints-and-sages/ Mike Aquilina's Blog Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:36:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Terry Fenwick http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/05/15/sudoku-of-the-saints-and-sages/comment-page-1/#comment-2107639 Terry Fenwick Thu, 05 Jul 2012 15:53:22 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/05/15/sudoku-of-the-saints-and-sages/#comment-2107639 You are, besides being my favorite "living" author and teacher, so very funny. Your last lines are always my favorites. (Sometimes I read ahead!) You are, besides being my favorite “living” author and teacher, so very funny. Your last lines are always my favorites. (Sometimes I read ahead!)

]]> By: John T. Cullen http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/05/15/sudoku-of-the-saints-and-sages/comment-page-1/#comment-641957 John T. Cullen Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:49:28 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/05/15/sudoku-of-the-saints-and-sages/#comment-641957 Greetings -- I believe I have solved the Sator Rebus. Rotas is a first person singular verb rather than an accusative plural noun. At my website http://www.johntcullen.com/readingroom/ you'll see the link to my paper, titled "God holds the plough, but you turn the furrows." I think arepo is a form of word for 'plow,' based on a Proto-Indo-European word 'arenko,' plow, listed by Julius Pokorny. I think the rebus consists of two sentences that form an ironic aphorism that would have been commonly understood, probably in the late republic, although we have no incidences of the Sator Rebus prior to 69 C.E. at this time. I believe the rebus talks about two forms of fate--Sator fate (God holds the plow) over which we have no control, versus Rotas fate (my names for these things), which is under control of our free will. I don't believe it is a Christian artifact, initially. Sator (sower, begetter, seed bearer) is often a referenc to Jupiter ('Deus Pater') in Roman authors. Cheers, John T. Cullen Greetings –

I believe I have solved the Sator Rebus. Rotas is a first person singular verb rather than an accusative plural noun. At my website http://www.johntcullen.com/readingroom/ you’ll see the link to my paper, titled “God holds the plough, but you turn the furrows.”

I think arepo is a form of word for ‘plow,’ based on a Proto-Indo-European word ‘arenko,’ plow, listed by Julius Pokorny.

I think the rebus consists of two sentences that form an ironic aphorism that would have been commonly understood, probably in the late republic, although we have no incidences of the Sator Rebus prior to 69 C.E. at this time.

I believe the rebus talks about two forms of fate–Sator fate (God holds the plow) over which we have no control, versus Rotas fate (my names for these things), which is under control of our free will. I don’t believe it is a Christian artifact, initially. Sator (sower, begetter, seed bearer) is often a referenc to Jupiter (‘Deus Pater’) in Roman authors.

Cheers,
John T. Cullen

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