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Quite probably the Holy Office would consider my interpretation of St. Paul's "edge of liveliness" in conversation too rigorous — and too demoralizing for the millions of talkers whose conversation rattles along on less than four cylinders and on gritty oil. The Holy Office always has to be ready and fit to watch that no Pauline enthusiast will read too much into such provocative dicta as that "Wives must be submissive to their husbands," and that all talk should have 1 Col. 4:6, as translated by R. A. Knox, The New Testament (New York: Sheed & Ward, 1945), p. 435. In the following pages, New Testament references will usually be to the familiar, older Douay-Rheims version. |
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