/lit/ - Literature

>>21495827
Examine the odd coincidence between Socrates and Jesus Christ, especially this quote:
>Luke 22:42: Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
>John 18:11: Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?
And Socrates' on how it is God (and "the gods") who deliver him to death, coincidentally again, with the bitter cup of hemlock. These coincidences absolutely shocked the early Christians to such a degree that it became early tradition that Socrates couldn't have made it to hell. IIRC it was one of the reasons the Catholics were so interested in an idea of a peaceful "circle" of hell for "noble heathens."
This shocked me too because I'm skeptical of grand coincidences and these got to be a little too much.