St. Benidict And Fear Of The L
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St. Benedict and the Fear of the Lord
Throughout the ancient world the God’s were something that people loved and hated. They did have a certain fear from their gods, but it wasn’t like that kind of fear of the Middle Ages. With Christianity coming into full stride, the mentality of ....
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.... a monk needs to follow.
The two main rules that a monk has to follow truly show the “signs of the times” Obedience and Humility. Obedience being the first grade of humility, the part that we are interested in is the part of “if you don’t obey then you should burn in hell…” for someone today this excerpt, I feel, wouldn’t affect them as much as if did back then. Some main reasons for this being, the fall of the Roman Empire, people were sick and ti ....
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