On 11/04/2007 22:01, Harold Holmyard wrote:
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HH: I never said it was intended to be "a simply racial religion."
I did not intend to suggest that you did. But it is a position held by some Jews in ancient times, and maybe by some today. However, it was not Isaiah's position, nor Moses' according to your Numbers 15 quotes.
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I don't see 56:1 "close at hand ... will soon be revealed" as temporal at all, there is no "soon" in the Hebrew but only QAROB which means "near", usually in space.
HH: The word "near" can be used of time:
I know, that is why I wrote "usually". Of course on your interpretation "near" means 800 years in the future, and on Shoshanna's at least 2800.
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