John 20:28 and Augustine

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Feb 5 14:20:45 EST 2001


At 4:27 PM +0000 2/5/01, Maurice A. O'Sullivan wrote:
>At 11:37 05/02/01, "Alex / Ali" <alexali at surf.net.au> wrote:
>
>>and then seeing the risen Lord, who tells her not to touch him;
>
>Well, it is certainly news to me that that the "   noli me tangere  " on
>which Augustine relied is an accurate rendering of MH MOU hAPTOU.

Well, now, Maurice; here's something interesting; I'd never associated NOLI
ME TANGERE with MH MOU hAPTOU either; my first notation of the NOLI ME
TANGERE tag was as a motto on one of the very early American Revolutionary
War flags that (I think) had a coiled snake about to strike on a white
background with the motto below: NOLI ME TANGERE. That's pretty far away
from the Johannine text!

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