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Biblical Reading and Reflections: August 23rd (Amos 4 & John 18:28-40)

Alastair's Adversaria

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The Lord, the God of Hosts, Is His Name

We find parable condemnations of indulgent, wealthy women in passages like isaiah. Here it is their thirst for wine and presumably feasts, parties in a life of excess and luxury that draws condemnation upon them. Their husbands crimes were far more avert, but their selfish, decadent and entitled indifference to the poor and their need is presented as a driving force of the injustice that their class represented and perpetuated. By comparing these wealthy women to the highest quality cattle, perhaps the prophet wants his hearers to consider what such cattle are destined for. Such animals are fattened in order that they might be slaughtered and eaten.

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