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The United States At 250 - Day 2

   The Lord Has Destroyed Without Pity 2  How the Lord in his anger     has set the daughter of Zion under a cloud! He has cast down from heaven to earth     the splendor of Israel; he has not remembered his footstool     in the day of his anger. 2  The Lord has swallowed up without mercy     all the habitations of Jacob; in his wrath he has broken down     the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought down to the ground in dishonor     the kingdom and its rulers. 3  He has cut down in fierce anger     all the might of Israel; he has withdrawn from them his right hand     in the face of the enemy; he has burned like a flaming fire in Jacob,     consuming all around. 4  He has bent his bow like an enemy,   ...
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τετέλεσται!

Dan McClellan thinks he knows what τετέλεσται means in John 19 .   On the face of it, he sounds completely rational— until you realize that all he is doing is looking at the word in isolation, divorced from the rest of John, especially in relation to its narrative structure and the themes of covenant & cosmic redemption, revelation, & reconciliation.  Let’s try this…instead of reading the word in isolation, let’s read it as part of the Gospel of John in which the (Suzerain) Covenant between God & Man is up front & center along with comprehensive cosmic redemption & reconciliation with & for the whole of the created order.   John follows the general outline of a suzerain covenant .   Preamble (John 1:1 - 18) Historical Prologue (John 1:19 - 2:25) General Stipulations (John 3:1 - 12:50) Specific Stipulations (John 13:1 - 18:40) Renewal, Document Clause (John 19:1 - 19:42) Witnesses, & Victory  (John 20:1 - 21:25)     ...
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