Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 20:02:37 +0000
From: "Joseph Jones (UBC Library)" <jjones@interchange.ubc.ca>
Subject: Re: 13.0295 "to pay the penny"?
Re: pay the penny
How about Matthew 20 as background?
There is a penny paid, there is the eleventh hour, there is the
goodman of the house.
Joseph Jones University of British Columbia Library
jjones@unixg.ubc.ca http://www.library.ubc.ca/jones
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> Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 08:11:49 +0000
> From: Phyllis Wright <pwright@spartan.ac.brocku.ca>
> >
> Can someone provide the meaning for the phrase "to pay the penny" as used
> in the following which I believe is from a translation of a sermon by
> Alfric.
>
>
> "Verily from the eleventh hour the chief of the house [begged] to pay the
> penny, when he led the thief into the kingdom of heaven, before he led
> Peter or his other apostles, and rightly so, for the thief believed in
> Christ at a time when his apostles were in great doubt".
>
> Thanks so much,
> Phyllis Wright
> Phyllis M. Wright
> Head, Reference & Information Services Department
> James A. Gibson Library
> Brock University
> St. Catharines, Ontario
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>
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