Sunday, July 12, 2009

ENDEAVOR

Whether the first, and chiefest part, in disposing of things in this world, ought to be ascribed to God or man? Men for the most part have vindicated this pre-eminence unto themselves, by exclamations that so it must be.... Never did any men, “postquam Christiana gens esse caepit,” eagerly endeavor the erecting of this Babel than the Arminians, the modern blinded patrons of human self-sufficiency;

John Owen. A Display of Arminianism p.28;

postquam (when, after, because) Christiana (Christian) esse (to be) gens (clan, race, people) capit (caepit, he takes, they take) : My frail, unverified, translation: Never did any men “When people taking (claiming to be) the Christian label” more eagerly endeavor the erecting of this Babel than the Arminians, the modern blinded patrons of human self-sufficiency;