Repartee based on church government — Mythoi

Motif

Repartee based on church government.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever verbal retorts (repartee). · Repartee based on church or clergy. · view the constellation · filed as J1265

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Filed under Repartee based on church or clergy.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Like Christ on Palm Sunday. Bishop has parson to dinner in the seat of honor. The parson fears that the dinner precedes punishment. Parson: "Don't let me be like Christ on Palm Sunday in Jerusalem" Priest offers to exchange places with the bishop when he is told that he is unfit to care for his parish The same company of fools. An abbot calls the monks together and asks, "Whom from all you fools can I appoint as steward?" A monk answers, "That should not be difficult since an abbot was found from the same company of fools."

Filed beside it

Repartee based on levity toward sacred persons and things Repartee based on doctrinal discussions Repartee concerning clerical abuses Repartee concerning clerical incontinence Repartee based on church or clergy – miscellaneous

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