400. What Governs History?
5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 14 September 2022
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Many ancient Greeks and Romans believed that history is subject to the arbitrary governance of fate. Today on our journey back through the archives, Dr. Stephen Nichols considers how one scholar from old Princeton responded to this idea.
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks for tuning in to Five Minutes in Church History, I'm Steve Nichols. |
| 0:04.0 | What you're about to hear is one of my favorite episodes from our archives. |
| 0:08.1 | We're taking a short break from releasing new content, but we will be back with all new |
| 0:12.3 | material in January 2023. |
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| 0:18.0 | I hope you enjoy this archival episode of Five Minutes in Church History. |
| 0:24.2 | What governs history? |
| 0:25.2 | Well, there have been various answers to this throughout history. |
| 0:29.2 | I suppose some would say, well, nothing governs history. |
| 0:31.8 | Everything is just open to chance. |
| 0:33.2 | Who knows even how today is going to end. |
| 0:36.8 | Others have said, well, fate determines all things. |
| 0:40.4 | And we go back to Greek mythology and Roman mythology to understand fate. |
| 0:44.7 | We find this in the writings of Homer and Hessead. |
| 0:48.1 | The fates were the three daughters of the goddess Nix. |
| 0:51.9 | She was the goddess of the night. |
| 0:54.5 | And these three daughters, her three daughters, were the fates. |
| 0:57.8 | Some of them would simply spin thread from a spindle. |
| 1:01.3 | That's all she would do. |
| 1:02.3 | Just spin thread from a spindle. |
| 1:04.7 | The second sister, the second fate, would measure out a given piece of thread and that |
| 1:10.4 | given piece of thread signified the length of life. |
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