As an old dear friend has so very graciously reminded me, today is the tenth anniversary of the defense of my thesis on Genesis 2:4–3:24, which demonstrated for the first time, with all due analysis of historical philology and unrelenting scientific rigor the text’s reasoning for original sin by propagation not by imitation, and how it is that the mother of the redeemer in Genesis 3:15 is not the wife of Adam but rather is someone future to the writer of the account and who is free from Adam’s sin, that is, from the moment of her conception, she who is the great warrior in the most far reaching battle of the most far reaching war, that conflict between good and evil, between God and Satan, in which the Divine Son of the Mother of the Redeemer is victorious by laying down His life for us, standing in our stead, having the right in His own justice to have mercy on us. I’m thinking that a bit of prayer at the hermitage this very day is in order. Please say a Hail Mary for yours truly. I’m going to ask our Lady for the wherewithal to write about her.
Montra te esse matrem!
GENESIS THESIS GEORGE DAVID BYERS
IVE GENESIS IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CONFERENCE 7 FEBRUARY 2013
Said “The Big 3” for you Fr G. (OF, HM & GB). Happy Anniversary! How fitting that you defended your thesis on Momma Mary in May. Bet she’s smiling at you.
Wonderful! Pater, Ave, Gloria.
Monstra… help him dear Lady, so that souls may be saved.