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Our conviction as Christians is that history is a footnote to the Magnificat: her son shall bring mercy on those who fear him; show strength with his arm, scatter the proud; put down the mighty; send the rich away, and exalt the low among many other works.
Søren Kierkegaard puts this historical footnote into a nutshell: "The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.*
-- Auden and Kronenberger, The Viking Book of Aphorisms. Dorset Press, 1981, p. 249.
Søren Kierkegaard puts this historical footnote into a nutshell: "The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.*
-- Auden and Kronenberger, The Viking Book of Aphorisms. Dorset Press, 1981, p. 249.