High over the brew kettles at the Church Brew Works in Pittsburgh, a black rafter spans the arch, and in gold the meditative drinker finds the words, “in fide vivo Filii Dei, qui dilexit me and tradidit seipsum pro me.”
My Latin is not what it should be, but I have learned the English translation and it goes as follows, “I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and handed himself over for me.” The quote is from St. Paul’s letter to the Galatians, 2:20.
I hope this clears up the mystery for many. My thanks to Dr. Melissa Conway for the translation, and for double-checking her work in the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine.
