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Posts tagged "poor"

Choosing An Inconvenient Justice

Proverbs Reflection

On the surface of it, these four proverbs don’t seem to have a common thread. All of them land squarely in the category of the blindingly obvious: of course it’s unfair to punish the innocent! Probably they weren’t really intended to be read as a unit, as this section of Proverbs is really a list of Solomon’s wisdom aphorisms. So why does he remind us of things we already know?

Justice is, most often, inconvenient.

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Listen To My Prayer!

Read Reflect Every afternoon when I get home I switch on the evening news. In these times, there is so much happening in our world that should bring us to tears. From the violence, to horrors of nature, to the injustice we see in our societies. Of course, I will often provide my own monologue […]

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Loving the Alien

Read Reflect The Book of Proverbs is normally attributed to King Solomon (probably with some bits added from elsewhere) who was a divinely appointed, absolute monarch. The point of v14 is that there is a permanent ethical responsibility for the king to treat people generally, and the poor in particular, justly. Through the timeline of […]

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