Where was st paul from the trenches

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Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape "Donate to the archive" User icon An illustration of a person's head and chest. Sign up Log in. Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. I only wish the author had survived to finish his New Testament project. From what I gather, Cornish was working on the translation from the trenches up until he died fighting in France on September 16, His manuscript for what would be post-humously published as this work was found on his person that day.

Perhaps you will have to forgive me for saying so, but I can't help but think there is some strange beauty in the juxtapositions of what I imagine the scene of Cornish's last days may have been like. That a testament so full of hope, light and life should have been carried and tended to through months of enduring sorrow, to be found pressed against a bullet ridden heart at such a dark hour - perhaps remembered and clutched at for a last sense of peace as the author's death was swallowed up in the victory he had, doubltess, been awaiting most expectantly - is a uniquely powerful witness.

For that reason, I can't think of this work divorced from the life that was interrupted before its completion. I almost can't conceive of a more powerful symbol for enduring hope in the midst of man's 20th century destruction than a half-finished manuscript of the new testament found amid the mud and blood-stained ruins. Chesterton and Eliot both praised this work, but it seems to have been largely forgotten - I hope new light is shed on it in the future, it would be well deserved.

Eric Sullenberger. I think it is good that this got published and came out of tragedy. Even though, for historicity's sake it is probably good that the translation of Ephesians is preserved.

Where was st paul from the trenches

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