Mika Jarmusz Jul 20, 2009:

そうですね。「信仰と希望と愛」のはずが、信仰から愛に直行して、順番（「希望」）は無視しちゃってるけどさ、という皮肉も込められているのかもしれませんね。

Tina Wooden Jul 19, 2009:

2 possibilities from I Cor. 13:13 "And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love."
Since this passage goes from faith to love, skipping over hope, it may mean that they got the order scrambled.
Or, since the greatest virtue -- or command -- is love, and since the kind of hollow, false love that is described here seems to directly contradict that command (to "love your neighbor as yourself"), it could be pointing out the hypocrisy of their actions.
In this case, I'm leaning towards the first option.

jackamano (asker) Jul 19, 2009:

Many, to be sure, believed in the Christmas this Advent seemed to announce, but the sole survivors of these strenuous holidays were those for whom no almonds or walnuts were left -- although everyone had supposed there would be plenty for all. But after faith in Santa Claus had turned out to be faith in the gasman, *an attempt was made, in disregard of the order set forth in Corinthians, to do it with love*: I love you, they said, oh, I love you. Do you, too, love yourself? Do you love me, say, do you really love me? I love myself too. And from sheer love they called each other radishes, they loved raddishes, they bit into each other, out of sheer love one radish bit off another's radish.

Mika Jarmusz Jul 18, 2009:

ヒットラーをgasmanと呼んでいるようです。
http://books.google.com/books?id=E07T_J7D8NkC&pg=PA204&lpg=P...

Tina Wooden Jul 18, 2009:

What part of Corinthians? コリント書と言っても上下合わせて２９章あります。特に上の１３章は「愛の章」と呼ばれていますが、その引用なのかどうかはもう少し前後関係を見ないと分かりません。サンタクロースと何の関係があるのか、意味不明です…。
でも "order" は「順序」ではなく「戒律」や「戒め」でしょう。