Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Romans 2:21-24


…the one declaring not to steal, you are stealing.  22The one saying not to worship idolatrously you are worshipping idolatrously, the one feeling a loathing towards those images you are stealing sacred property.  23 In that law you are boasting, because of the illusion of the Law of God, you are disfranchising.  24For because of you the name of God is slandered by the peoples…Romans 2:21-24 JWET  

Aristotle deals with the same issue 400 years before Paul in Rhetoric …But since a man, while admitting the fact, 
often denies the description of the charge or the point on which it turns—for instance, admits that he took something, but did not steal it; that he was the first to strike, but committed no outrage; that he had relations, but did not commit adultery, with a woman; or that he stole something but was not guilty of sacrilege, since the object in question was not consecrated…

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