Sure, Cicero knew the horror – intellectually. She knew what was coming – theoretically. But she didn’t feel it as we did.
Cicero might talk about shaking the world out of its contentment, its automatism. Of our leaving the closed, mechanistic system. But only we really lived against the world.
Cicero was all about the antinomian flame; about the otherness of revelation. But only we really felt it: the antinomian flame, the otherness of revelation.
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