All this is confirmed under a mighty pledge, when the sentence is added in which He says: Amen, I say to you, this generation shall not pass away, till all things be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass. Nothing of this world is more durable than the heavens and the earth, and nothing in the order of nature passes away more quickly than speech. Words, as long as they are incomplete, are not yet words. Once completed, they cease utterly to be; because they cannot be perfected save in their own passing away. Therefore He says: Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass. As if he were openly to say: all that seems to you enduring and unchangeable, is not enduring and without change in eternity. And everything of mine that seems to pass away, is enduring and without change: because my speech, that passes away, utters thoughts (sententiae manentes) which endure for ever.
Gregory the Great
Homilies
- Prof. David Forte at the Ashbrook Center writes on The Meaning of Gaza.
- At the Boundless Line blog, Ted Slater writes on his changing views of Creation.
- Prof. John Mark Reynolds of Biola on what the inauguration of President Obama says about America, as does Al Sikes of the Trinity Forum.
- An interview with Prof. Robert George on Father Neuhaus.
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