Talk:Vatican Saying 37

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E. seemingly start a dispute against what would be the same old story of the 'Anguish Age': "the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak". He was referring to Plato, of course. The anthologist of Greek Vatican Codex 1950, XIV c. ( Wotke found 1888) had an axe to grind by isolating this and other statements (how much juggled?) from their context. He was interested to stress that at any rate and after all human condition is wretched. He shuddered at the words 'evil (kakòn)', 'pains (algêdòsi)', 'disruption (dialyetai)': an apocalypse! The sectarian appeal of verses is that they, like Sibyls' outpourings, may mean a fair bit of things.