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101. Poem: Aye, But To Die, And Go We Know Not Where

Eulogy

William Shakespeare

... , or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison’d in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world; or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thoughts Imagine howling: ’tis too horrible! The weariest and most loathed wordly life That age, ache, penury and imprisonment Can lay on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death.

102. Poem: Adonais

Eulogy

Percy Bysshe Shelley

... at our despair. IV. Most musical of mourners, weep again! Lament anew, Urania! – He died, Who was the Sire of an immortal strain, Blind, old, and lonely, when his country’s pride, The priest, the slave, and the liberticide Trampled and mocked with many a loathed rite Of lust and blood; he went, unterrified, Into the gulf of death; but his clear Sprite Yet reigns o’er earth; the third among the sons of light. V. Most musical of mourners, weep anew! Not all to that bright station dared to climb; And ...

103. The Good Samaritan (Revised Edition)

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... withdraw from them. The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. Religion should help life, not hinder. Religious leaders should be interested in touching the wounded and bleeding to make them whole, rather than withdrawing from them and loathing them. The sinner Jesus denounced most often was the religious legalist who did nothing to help his fellow man. Goodness is not a passive morality; it is not a "colorless" abstention from certain vices. Most of Jesus' teaching deals not with prohibitions ...

104. Our Father Who Art in Heaven

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... out against the crowd and against the "herd instinct" and "group think." "Everybody's doing it" is never a legitimate excuse for those prophets who march to the beat of a different drum. "It's always been done this way" is a slogan loathed by those challengers of official corruption, deceit, and oppression. Woman: Yes, I can concede that emphasis. Matriarchal deities are tied up with soil, seasons, and cycles and are very much identified with the present time and space. The biblical patriarchal God does ...

105. The Israelites Oppressed

Exodus 1:1-22

Understanding Series

James K. Bruckner

... ” (ʿanah) means “violently afflicted,” or “cruelly crushed.” It includes the graphic nature of dispiriting violence. Yet the population continued to multiply, fulfilling God’s command to fill the earth. This frightened the Egyptians and caused them to loathe (dread) the Israelites. They responded with even more vigorous brutality. The fact that the Israelites continued to thrive even under extreme duress was like a plague to the Egyptians. They could not explain it except that God helped ...

106. Israel Unrepentant

Hosea 6:1--7:16

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... of saying that God wants to forgive the people (cf. 14:4) and return to the intimate communion that they knew in the wilderness (cf. 2:15). To restore the fortunes, in 6:11b, means “to return to the former state,” to make Israel once more blessed. God is loathe to give up on my people. Always God’s desire is to do good to his people (cf. Deut. 5:29; Ezek. 18:32), to love them and bless them and pour out his grace upon them. When God’s people deliberately turn away, however, he cannot fulfill these ...

107. Woe to Nineveh

Nahum 3:1-19

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... subsequently and most systematically, Ezek. 16 and 23), usually to describe Israel itself. One may guess that it works as a slur because men find that the idea of their wives having sex with another man arouses such strong feelings of shock, anger, and loathing (women may have similar reactions to the idea of their husbands having sex with another woman, but in a patriarchal society it is the men with whom the prophets especially need to communicate if they are to bring about change). All this is underlined ...

108. Signs and Oracles of Judgment

Ezekiel 4:1-5:17, Ezekiel 6:1-14, Ezekiel 7:1-27

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... 16. The exiles, then, are no righteous remnant who should rejoice in their deliverance from destruction by a just God. Instead, having been saved in spite of themselves, their deliverance will cause them to remember the Lord and to regret their own sin: “They will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their detestable practices” (v. 9). It is essential, however, to keep in mind that for Ezekiel, the purpose of God’s actions is to convey knowledge of God: “they will know that I am ...

109. Two Adulterous Sisters

Ezekiel 23:1-49

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... facial mutilations the Babylonians carried out in verse 25 brought an end to her prostitution, the self-mutilation of her breasts puts an end to their being pressed and fondled by illicit lovers (see vv. 3, 8, 21). Certainly, such pathological self-loathing has no place in any normal depiction of sexuality. However, Ezekiel does not intend this to be a depiction of how normal sexual relationships are, or should be, conducted. It is poetic hyperbole—extreme, ugly, and graphic. Jerusalem cannot expunge its ...

110. Oracles of Restoration

Ezekiel 34:1-31, Ezekiel 35:1-15, Ezekiel 36:1-38, Ezekiel 37:1-14, Ezekiel 37:15-28

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... (“I want you to know that I am not doing this for your sake, declares the Sovereign LORD,” v. 32). Restoration will lead not to Israel’s exaltation, but to its shame: “Then you will remember your evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves for your sins and detestable practices. . . . Be ashamed and disgraced for your conduct, O house of Israel!” (vv. 31–32). How are we to understand this bleak, cold, loveless view of Israel’s future and of Israel’s God? It is no help to ...

111. Jesus Announces His Impending Suffering and Death

Matthew 16:21-28

Teach the Text

Jeannine K. Brown

... most vulnerable in the believing community (18:1–35). Bearing one’s cross, or self-denial, is not about holding a certain attitude; it is about doing actions (16:24–27), and, specifically, doing actions on behalf of others. It is not about self-loathing or eliminating the self from view; instead, it follows Jesus in mission and ministry wherever he leads. Illustrating the Text Jesus is truly Israel’s Messiah, but his way of being the Messiah is marked by cruciformity; he will die and be raised to ...

112. God’s Saving Righteousness and the Restoration of Israel

Romans 3:21-31

Teach the Text

C. Marvin Pate

... Text A couple of sermons/lessons come to mind in contemplating Romans 3:21–26. One is a sermon entitled “Is Christianity a Slaughterhouse Religion?” I well remember hearing just such a sermon when I was a teenager. The preacher captured the loathing that many moderns feel about the cross of Christ. And yet, Paul would be the first to say, “No blood, no forgiveness.” Today, however, even some evangelicals are calling Christ’s sacrificial death a case of “cosmic child abuse.” Related to this ...

113. Blood Vengeance in Gibeah

2 Samuel 21:1-14

Teach the Text

Robert B. Chisholm Jr.

... born of his father’s rigid handling of him—that he will not discuss with anyone. Those who see its shadows do not confront him about it. As a result his complex emotions fester, leading him to sexual sin, clearly done because of his self-loathing. Everyone around him is destroyed, as is so often the case today when sexual sin (pornography, adultery, homosexual behavior) invades a marriage or a family. This novel has powerful effects on those who read it, especially on men. Pieter’s aunt, the novel’s ...

114. Repentance and Victory

1 Samuel 7:2-17

Teach the Text

Robert B. Chisholm Jr.

... played by Robert De Niro. He has enslaved Indians, capturing them in the most loathsome ways; he even killed his brother in a duel over a woman, similar to the Cain-and-Abel story. Arrested for the murder of his brother, Mendoza becomes filled with self-loathing and molders in a prison cell until a priest (played by Jeremy Irons) comes to talk to him firmly and persistently. He begins to move beyond his self-hatred and wants forgiveness. As a sign of his repentance, he drags a bag of heavy armor, a ...

115. Job Considers a Legal Dispute with God

Job 9:1–10:22

Teach the Text

Daniel J. Estes

... it to congeal like cheese to form the embryo from which Job developed. In 10:21–22, Job once again (cf. 3:4–9) pictures death as a place of gloom and darkness, an image found in many ancient Near Eastern texts. Interpretive Insights 10:1 I loathe my very life. In chapter 10, Job intensifies his rhetoric as he gives full rein to his complaint. Echoing his earlier description in 7:11, Job speaks to God out of his deep and painful emotion. In contrast to Bildad, who clinically analyzed Job’s suffering ...

116. Quail from the Lord

Numbers 11:4-35

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... divine intervention (cf. 11:23). Abundantly giving the people what they want is not weakness on God’s part but a way to discipline them. He provides enough meat for them to eat it every day for a whole month, but this is to make them come to loathe it, in order to teach them a lesson for rejecting him and questioning why they ever left Egypt (11:18–20). The Lord has told Moses to command the Israelites to consecrate themselves in preparation for eating the meat that he will provide (11:18). This implies ...

117. The Bronze Snake

Numbers 21:4-9

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

Victory is soon followed by another failure. The people become impatient during the tedious and taxing extra trip around Edom, complain of lack of food and water, and ungratefully express loathing for the manna. Divine punishment comes in the form of deadly poisonous “fiery serpents” (KJV, RSV), apparently referring to fiery pain from their bites (21:4–6). Moses intercedes, but rather than simply removing the threat as he has at Taberah (11:2), the Lord makes healing from snakebite conditional ...

118. Don’t Be Deceived By Size, Affluence, or Power

Amos 6:1-7, Amos 6:8-14

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... large amounts of wine, and have the finest lotions; but they ignore and do not grieve over the deterioration of the nation. God announces that the feasting days will soon be over, and these first-class citizens will go into exile first (6:7). The Lord loathes the pride and arrogance of the wealthy who live securely in their large palaces (6:8), so God has determined to destroy the nation’s fortified cities, to destroy the population through war so much that those who come to bury the dead will find no ...

119. When All Is Said and Done

Acts 16:9-15

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... basketball for the L.A. Lakers. He was a tremendous athlete. He taught me many lessons about tennis, the most important of which was determination. For instance, he would make me do a dreaded exercise which involved bending my knees and getting lower and lower to the ground. I loathed this exercise and whenever he asked me to do it I would protest, “I can’t! I can’t!” One day I said that word one time too many. He jumped over the net, ran up to me, put his face in mine, and said, “Son, get that ...

120. John the Baptist Prepares the Way

Luke 3:1-20

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... in this verse are quite similar to those found in Isa. 58:7. 3:12–13 The paying of taxes (or tolls) frequently led to violence (e.g., the revolt of Judas the Galilean mentioned in Acts 5:37). Tax collectors were especially loathed because they were notoriously dishonest and were viewed as traitors and lackeys working for either Rome (which ruled Judea directly) or Herod (who ruled Galilee directly; see Luke 5:30; 7:34; 15:1 where “tax collectors and sinners” are considered virtually synonymous ...

121. Fire from the Lord

Numbers 11:1-3

Understanding Series

W.H. Bellinger, Jr.

... bear the burden of leadership. 11:18–23 The divine instruction to Moses then continues. Moses is to tell the people to prepare to eat meat. They are to eat more meat than anyone ever desired or dreamed of—until it comes out of your nostrils and you loathe it. So God “hears” the murmuring and provides meat—but with a twist, because the murmuring is perceived to be a rejection of the LORD, who is among you (v. 20). Moses then furthers his complaint to God: It would take flocks and herds and all the ...

122. Eliphaz's Second Speech to Job

Job 15:1-35

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... tsdq). Even the holy ones (heavenly beings, angels) and the heavens themselves are not “pure” enough to earn God’s trust, let alone humans who are vile and corrupt. These last two terms are the Hebrew verbs tʿb, “vile” (“be loathed; be abhorrent”) and ʾlkh, “corrupt.” Both appear in the Niphal participle form, which links them together visually. Eliphaz also describes the human (ʾish) as so enmeshed in evil that it drinks up evil (ʿawlah) like water! This description reflects an almost ...

123. Ten Healed of Leprosy

Luke 17:11-19

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... . Its inhabitants were exiled, and in their place foreign peoples were settled. In the centuries that followed a half-Jewish, half-Gentile race of people emerged with which the Jews of Judah to the south and of Galilee to the north frequently quarreled and whom the Jews loathed (see note on 9:53 above). That is why it is so ironic in a Jewish context that from time to time the “hero” of an episode or parable is a Samaritan. See HBD, pp. 895–900. 17:12 a village: Lit. “a certain village.” As ...

124. Quail from the Lord

Numbers 11:4-35

Understanding Series

W.H. Bellinger, Jr.

125. A Piggy Pudding

Matthew 8:28-34

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . In parable of prodigal…pigs food indicates how low he had to go. Here too. The drowning of the pigs into the sea (which was thought of as an abyss) was similar to the drowning of the Egyptians in the exodus story. Pigs are ultimate loathing to the Jewish people. They represent the level of disgust to which the man had fallen…..and represent a truly abominable behavior. They carry disease, eat trash, and were considered unkosher food according to the laws of Leviticus. The sages forbade the raising of ...

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