Punishment always carries with it the connotation of getting even, of a score to settle before the relationship can (if ever) be restored. A price is sometimes extracted in physical pain, but always in emotional pain. It is great indoor sport for those skilled in it, but never productive ...
Treasury of Scripture And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh. Exodus 2:23 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried...
It may also be possible to conjecture that, read as a spiritual and religious scripture of self-cultivation, the Daodejing may have offered Seferiadi, and Seferis, a vocal opponent of the dictatorial regime, some route of escape from what many intellectuals of the time saw as political and ...