This ends up feeling like, often, MODERNITY (esp LATE MODERNITY) is the real thing enslaving us, rather than Sin and Death, of which there are distinct modern forms. The deep RETVRN vibes fail to seem to see that there were as many culturally embedded manifestations of sin and death in all pasts.

I’d say if it’s published, especially as a critical edition, cite the published one unless there’s something you’re using in the manuscript that the published version doesn’t give you.

“To speak of time as a creature, or of a moment of time as holding that which is beyond time, presents a tension: on the one hand our capacity as temporal beings to encounter transcendence; on the other, our incapacity to fully comprehend or explain such transcendence from our own standpoint."