Comments on: Bart from the Start http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/24/bart-from-the-start/ Mike Aquilina's Blog Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:36:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cheryl Valyo http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/24/bart-from-the-start/comment-page-1/#comment-2324 Cheryl Valyo Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:53:03 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/24/bart-from-the-start/#comment-2324 Hi Mike, I appreciate the primer, on this the feast of our son Nate's namesake! Happy birthday to Michael, too :-) Hi Mike,

I appreciate the primer, on this the feast of our son Nate’s namesake!

Happy birthday to Michael, too :-)

]]> By: Mike Aquilina http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/24/bart-from-the-start/comment-page-1/#comment-2315 Mike Aquilina Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:26:08 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/24/bart-from-the-start/#comment-2315 Tomislav, Follow the link and read St. Augustine's entire section on Nathanael. He develops the idea at length. I think Augustine is trying to show why Jesus chose Peter as prince of the apostles over the more erudite Nathanael, who confessed the Lord's divinity much earlier than Peter did. Tomislav,
Follow the link and read St. Augustine’s entire section on Nathanael. He develops the idea at length. I think Augustine is trying to show why Jesus chose Peter as prince of the apostles over the more erudite Nathanael, who confessed the Lord’s divinity much earlier than Peter did.

]]> By: Patrick Flanigan http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/24/bart-from-the-start/comment-page-1/#comment-2313 Patrick Flanigan Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:56:56 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/24/bart-from-the-start/#comment-2313 Give Michael our best wishes for a happy birthday. And congratulations on achieving the status of Star Scout. Give Michael our best wishes for a happy birthday. And congratulations on achieving the status of Star Scout.

]]> By: Tomislav http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/24/bart-from-the-start/comment-page-1/#comment-2311 Tomislav Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:16:43 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/08/24/bart-from-the-start/#comment-2311 Why does St. Augustine say: "Not only is Nathanael not found as first among the apostles, but he is neither the middle nor the last among the twelve... Nathanael was learned and skilled in the law and for that reason was the Lord unwilling to place him among His disciples, because He chose unlearned persons, that He might by them confound the world... This man, then, was great and without guile, and for this reason only was not chosen, lest the Lord should seem to any to have chosen the learned." Why does St. Augustine say:

“Not only is Nathanael not found as first among the apostles, but he is neither the middle nor the last among the twelve…
Nathanael was learned and skilled in the law and for that reason was the Lord unwilling to place him among His disciples, because He chose unlearned persons, that He might by them confound the world…
This man, then, was great and without guile, and for this reason only was not chosen, lest the Lord should seem to any to have chosen the learned.”

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