(June 11, 2012 at 11:04 pm)padraic Wrote: There you go again making an unsupported truth claim. Also a no true Scotsman fallacy.
Scholastic opinion varies about the date,as it does about the identity of "John of Patmos" the obscurists/deluded froot loop(s) who wrote Revelations.
Scholastic opinion does "vary" but I have never seen a single scholastic opinion which places it before the Epistles. I am more than happy to be proven wrong if you can find me a single estimate which says Apocalypse of John is the earliest extant Christian writing. I am not trying to be absolutist at all here: find me just one educated and legitimate source which tries to assert the order found in the OP.
Mary Immaculate, star of the morning
Chosen before the creation began
Chosen to bring for your bridal adorning
Woe to the serpent and rescue to man.
Sinners, we honor your sinless perfection;
Fallen and weak, for your pity we plead;
Grand us the shield of your sovereign protection,
Measure your aid by the depth of our need.
Bend from your throne at the voice of our crying,
Bend to this earth which your footsteps have trod;
Stretch out your arms to us, living and dying,
Mary Immaculate, Mother of God.
Chosen before the creation began
Chosen to bring for your bridal adorning
Woe to the serpent and rescue to man.
Sinners, we honor your sinless perfection;
Fallen and weak, for your pity we plead;
Grand us the shield of your sovereign protection,
Measure your aid by the depth of our need.
Bend from your throne at the voice of our crying,
Bend to this earth which your footsteps have trod;
Stretch out your arms to us, living and dying,
Mary Immaculate, Mother of God.
