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Sun, 22-Mar-09 16:26:36
... as my Net access time for today is fast running out, and I won't have any more until Saturday. I was reviewing my file copy of this thread to obtain material I must soon use in writing elsewhere. I admired the performance of my co-religionists. I also saw SMR's questions concerning Luke's Parable of the Pounds, which I evidently passed over the first time around - for the same reason I remain tempted to pass over them now. But that parable also, I must use in the same soon writing elsewhere. SMR said (link): The day of the lord you say?
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
Come to find out there are certain ironies with that text, if one studies the life of Julia Ward Howe. At any rate, the Wikipedia article concerning Steinbeck's novel says the immediate referent is Revelation 14:19-20. That in turn is based on numerous referents in HaNaviim, which I mean to research this week. The bottom line is that the referent in Howe's text, and in Folah's references, is the coming of Messiah, with his day of judgment and extermination of all those who may oppose his rule. Of which, with anticipations, HaNaviim are replete.
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