Sunday, October 22, 2006
Go Read the Postulant
Despite the fact that he is significantly older and can play keyboard instruments far better than I can, I sometimes swear that we were switched at birth. And because we were switched at birth, I know that plenus, -a, -um typically takes the genitive. He, of course, writes better.
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I really liked his post as well. Well reasoned. Thoughtful. The problem is that this argument won't hold water to those who offer a sola Scriptura account or for those whom moral reasoning of this callibre is beside the point--among "traditionalism catholics", for example. His reasoning is quite, and I say this with love and respect, Jesuitical. Or even classicly Anglican Divine.
I think I'll send him an email commending his thoughts.
"Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua": that's ablative!
P.S. For a generous sampling of uses of plenus, some with genetive and some with ablative, see the dictionary entry in Lewis and Short.
Dadgummit. Apparently I can't spell 'genitive'.
Sorry, Postulant. I'll lay off the nitpicking, though for some reason, I always say "pleni sunt caeli et terra gloriae suae."
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