EST019 - Why Was Cyrus Being So Nice to Everybody?
The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast
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How to Get Your Subjects to Love You
"I don't think that Cyrus the Great was this magnificent pre-Christian proto-Christian who just loved God with all of his heart and couldn't get enough of God," he says. "What I see there is a very mixed set of motives on the part of Cyrus on the one hand." He adds, "How do you get your subjects to love you? I suppose one way is to demonstrate that with your arrival comes a new age of freedom ... Go nugs"
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