Re: .com/religion

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?

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Thomas Wier <trwier@...>
Alternative: <artabanos@...>

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  entos amômêton kallipon ouk ethelôn;
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