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Biblical Reading and Reflections: August 22nd (Amos 3 & John 18:1-27)

Alastair's Adversaria

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The Lord's Name Is the Lord of Hosts

Caroll argues that if we keep the original text, but re point it, re ordering the vowels and the division of the words, without changing anything else, we get a far more reasonable interpretation. This would also connect well with the image of the limbs of the animal taken from the mouth of the lion. The elaborate nature of the divine name here probably serves to underline the solemnity of the statement that follows. Bethel had first been established as a rival cultic centre to jerusalem by jeroboam the first,. He had erect a golden calf there and a golden calf at dan, and placed an altar before it. In first kings, chapter 13, judgment was proclaimed against

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