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May 15, 2024 · Speaking of the near puns of watch tower and mirror, speculo and speculum, she explains this mirror reversing as expressing the difference between the mortal sight ‘through a glass darkly’, to that ‘face to face’, between worldly confusion and sin, the pagan Siren’s song, and the eschewing of that false music for God, the sacred ...
May 15, 2024 · In Vita nova IX that Christ imaging was obscure; in Vita nova XL it is revealed, the Pilgrim’s Progress of the work deliberately being that of I Corinthians 13.12: “Videmus nunc per speculum in aenigmate, tunc autem facie ad faciem; nunc cognosco ex parte, tunc autem cognoscam sicut et cognitus sum” [For now we see through a glass darkly ...
