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p/c Isaac Blessing Jacob, (1642), Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Metropolitan Museum of Art, courtesy of wikimedia commons
I was asked a few weeks ago during the Song of Solomon bible study I lead on Sunday mornings to explain what I meant in a passing comment I made about Isaac the patriarch forsaking the covenant.
My basic claim was something like this: For all of Jacob’s other short-comings, failures, sins, he is not acting sinfully or wrongfully during his early encounter with his brother Esau nor in his collusion with his mother to get his father’s (Isaac’s) blessing…
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Sauron, dark Lord of Mordor, is a “wise fool.” His knowledge and cunning is great, but he reckons wrong because he reckons only according to his own scales — of power, control, and anxiety. Sauron learns that the Ring is abroad and calculates carefully:
Read more“He supposes that we are all going to Minas Tirith [the great stronghold city of the “good guys”]; for that is what he himself would have done in our place. And according to his wisdom, it would have been a heavy stroke against his power. Indeed he is in great fear, not knowing what mighty one may suddenly appear, wielding the Ring, and assailing him with war, seeking to cast him down and take his place.”
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