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Re: .com/religion

From:Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 19, 2001, 14:14
Quoting Roger Mills <romilly@...>:

> Yoon Ha Lee wrote: > >->YHL, remembering a math classmate at Cornell > > (an Orthodox Jew, I believe) who, on every page > > of his notes, wrote something like "for the glory > > of God" in Hebrew--would that my conviction were > > that strong > > IIRC, J.S.Bach used to put AMDG (ad majorem Dei gloriam) on his > manuscripts.....
I seem to remember the story being that he wrote "In dem Namen Jesu". Perhaps it was both at different times. Any Bach-experts on the list to inform us? ============================== Thomas Wier <trwier@...> Alternative: <artabanos@...> "Aspidi men Saiôn tis agalletai, hên para thamnôi entos amômêton kallipon ouk ethelôn; autos d' exephugon thanatou telos: aspis ekeinê erretô; exautês ktêsomai ou kakiô" - Arkhilokhos