Christine de Pizan wrote " The City of Ladies " in 1404, and in it she describes women's gender as having no innate inferiority to men's : " [ N ] either the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues ".
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Be that as it may, his Sasanian text is still Iranocentric : . . . we are the best of Persians, and there is no quality or trait of excellence or nobility which we hold dearer than the fact that we have ever showed humility and lowliness & in the service of kings, and have chosen obedience and loyalty, devotion and fidelity.
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A review of the exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art noted that Goldberg made reference to other artists and photographers; used photographs, videos, objects, and texts to convey meaning; and " let his viewers feel, in some corner of their psyches, the lure of abject lowliness, the siren call of pain . " it was described as " a heartbreaking novel with pictures ",
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Accordingly while the distinctness of both natures and substances was preserved, and both met in one Person, lowliness was assumed by majesty, weakness by power, mortality by eternity; and, in order to pay the debt of our condition, the inviolable nature was united to the passible, so that as the appropriate remedy for our ills, one and the same Mediator between God and man, the Man Christ Jesus, might from one element be capable of dying and also from the other be incapable.
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In the ninth chapter, Columbanus presents mortification as an essential element in the lives of monks, who are instructed, " Do nothing without counsel . " Monks are warned to " beware of a proud independence, and learn true lowliness as they obey without murmuring and hesitation . " According to the Rule, there are three components to mortification : " not to disagree in mind, not to speak as one pleases with the tongue, not to go anywhere with complete freedom . " This mirrors the words of Jesus, " For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me . " ( John 6 : 38 ) In the tenth and final chapter, Columbanus regulates forms of penance ( often corporal ) for offences, and it is here that the Rule of Saint Columbanus differs significantly from that of Saint Benedict.
