Paul, John & Paul

I am a rock. I am an island.* --Paul Simon, I Am A Rock.



No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. --John Donne, Meditation XVII.  



Bear one another's burdens, and thus fulfil the law of Christ. --the Apostle Paul, in his Letter to the Galatian church (6:2)  



*Yes, I know Paul Simon was being ironic. But we all know people who could sing this line unironically.

Another thought on Ephesians 6:12

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." — Paul to the believers at Ephesus.  



If I don't believe this, I will have few friends.  



If I do believe this, I will have few enemies. -WS

A thought on Ephesians 6:12

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." — Paul to the believers at Ephesus.  



This freighted comment seems to imply that all struggles with which we daily contend, be they between family, neighbors or even nations, are but mimics, stagecraft for a greater, more important struggle which is going on offstage. 



Perhaps Shakespeare was speaking of this when he said, in As You Like It:

All the world's a stage, 
And all the men and women merely players...

—WS