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The Skandalon (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the living obstacle that trips us up: the model we imitate, once he turns rival and lies across our path.

Skandalon (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠never a material thing in the Gospels: it is always another person, or myself as estranged from others — the model attracting because it obstructs and obstructing because it attracts.

Skandalon (n.) appears ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in Gospel sentences scattered as fragments, joined by shared words; rearranged, they form the mimetic theory like a puzzle.

Skandalon (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Jesus's own language, where the disciples and editors use the demonic: only he translates the demonic logos into mimetic scandal.

Skandalon (n.) as ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a language replaces a blind fear of hell with an analysis of why men fall into the trap of mimetic circularity.