| Author Quoted | L.C. Fillion |
| Title Quoted | Study of the Bible |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1949/08/19 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1926I |
| Quotation | [Louis Claude] Fillion, a Scripture scholar whom I am appointed to read, encourages young priests to study Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, Itala, Arabic, Syriac, Assyrian, Ethiopian, Coptic, Armenian, Persian, Slavonic, Gothic, and the three main Egyptian dialects, namely Saledic (spoken at Thebes), Fayonnic (spoken at the oasis of Fayonen), and Memphitic (spoken at Memphis).... From Fillion (The Study of the Bible [Ireland, 1926]): "One day Cardinal Foulon, Archbishop of Lyons, said to me, "Why is the cat, that charming animal, not mentioned in the Bible?" (Is it so charming after all?)-Fillion's comment! I answered, "Your Eminence, it is mentioned in the Book of Baruch, or to be more exact, in the letter of Jeremias at the end of that book. The prophet shows it walking over the heads and bodies of the Babylonian idols." |
| Quotation Source | Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and Writer. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 2, 1941-1952.; Edited by Jonathan Montaldo. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 357 |
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