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Jesus exhorts us to LOVE GOD FIRST. But it is counter-intuitive. After all the psalmist said "Fear of God is the beginning of wisdom." And St. Thomas Aquinas said "Love follows knowledge." But the...
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Desr Lord heal our Nation and start over...our Nation is at A crossroads and i pray we all come together and pray for our nation.I love all the people suffering from "Sandy",and I Pray the emotional...
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"Fear of God is the beginning of wisdom." Not, "be afraid" but "respect" is the psalmist's intention - it's a very old meaning of the word "fear". And can one truly love what one does not respect? No....
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Very nice, Tony. You might be interested to know (or may already) that there might be a play on words in the Hebrew between Molech (the god) and melek (the king) since in the latter shameful days of...
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In his recent book "The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture" Yarom Hazony makes a very credible case for Abraham's being sure that God would not actually require Him to sacrifice His son, though Abraham's...
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Thank you, Smitty. That's kind of you. I have thought that Milton, who certainly knew his Hebrew, was punning on Moloch in that first line, "Moloch, horrid King." We might also toss the mysterious...
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Pinnacle Studio for iPad Certainly much of what you say, Professor Esolen, is true WRT paganism as represented in Milton and later writers. And it is true that "do ut des" was part of the milieu of...
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GK: Oh, I wasn't saying that Moloch did mean that. I'm just giving the sacred author the same leeway to play on words that I'd give to any author. I think the pun is there; as I think there's a pun on...
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Yes, you're free to assert whatever you want. Puns, no puns -- go ahead and have at 'em. After all it's your blog post! My comment was simply to point out that present scholarship in the area of...
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