In Isaiah 13, he gave an oracle against Babylon, and here in Isaiah 23 he gives an oracle against Tyre. The commentaries say that this is the last of Isaiah’s pronouncements of judgements upon the nations. Isaiah pronounced judgment against Babylon (Isaiah 13) the city at the eastern edge...
One of the first Bible verses I memorized after becoming a Christian was Philippians 1:6; the assurance that I was indeed saved, that He would continue to perfect me, and someday I would be released from the worldly bog and receive the crown of life. The perfecting part includes discourage...
"We got the feeling that people thought the kids could do substantially better," said Toll, herself a Yale Law School graduate. "A bunch of us set out to tryI graduated from law school and came right here. I did not think I'd be opening a school, let alone running it." While the...
Eventually, slavery became a most lucrative business and the Dutch brought endless slaves to America where the British East India Company attempted to economically control the American colonies. It was British East India tea that was dumped into the Boston Harbor during the “Tea Party.” KEY ...
corporate economic sector, we can see that it went up from 19% in 2006 to 25.9% in 2015. Therefore, it can be inferred that the local corporate sector, regardless of its increasing in absolute terms, as did the whole economy, is the economic sector that had the lowest increase and made...
Soc. Sci. 2014, 3 858 Child savers did not save children from categorized forms of abuse, but from a life of urban degradation and squalor. Nor did the child savers vary much in their remedial recommendation; children were to be removed to the country. By the turn of the twentieth ...