Irish Jesuit Province

More Powerful than CommunismAuthor(s): Fred CopemanSource: The Irish Monthly, Vol. 77, No. 917 (Nov., 1949), p. 532Published by: Irish Jesuit ProvinceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20516077 .

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IRISH MONTHLY

agree most heartily that the thing is worth doing, and Mgr. Knox

has probably gone as near doing it as anybody ever will.

Although Mgr. Knox is primarily interested in the reader of the

Bible, the student, too, is under a great debt to him. For, in the first

place, study of the Bible presupposes diligent and oft-repeated reading of the text until one is completely familiar with the content and

character of the various books and with the nature of the problems which they raise. Secondly, we now have, corresponding to every verse of the Bible, a clear and accurate English sentence each word

of which has a real meaning and function. Henceforth it will be

possible to indicate with accuracy one's concept of the precise mean

ing of a particular phrase or verse by indicating to what extent it

approximates to or recedes from what was written by Mgr. Knox?

and let no one underestimate this service who has not at some time

tried to find English words to express what precisely he takes an

obscure text to mean.

The printing and production of this noteworthy book deserve the

highest praise. If it were not ungracious one might perhaps express

regret that the fine engraving reproduced in the perilous position of dust cover design was not also inserted as a frontispiece.

MORE POWERFUL THAN COMMUNISM

The Communist Party exacts their all from the men who join it.

Let us not have any doubts about the fact that its appeal goes deep into their hearts. The tragedy is that once the Party has gained the

confidence of a member it misuses this confidence. In order to defeat

a power which is so deeply rooted, a supernatural force and a super natural faith are needed. I asked myself whether there exists a force

which has never been defeated or reduced in the course of the cen

turies, and I found myself compelled to recognize that the only such

force is Christianity. ... I could not help seeing that Christ, when

He came to this world, chose to come as the son of a carpenter, and

I believe that, by doing so, God wanted to bless the workers.

?Fred Copeman (former Secretary of the Communist

Party of Great Britain).

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