... photos, and just general information, all stacked on your electronic “stuff” and all safely crated and cared for by some electronic gatekeeper and security system. No matter how high tech your “treasures” might be, they are still “stuff.” Richard Meier, in his first collection of poetry entitled Misadventure (2012), has a poem called “Sky Sports” in which the gods “who can see feelings” watch us on our planet splatting each other paint-ball-style with projected envy, greed, lust ...
... is above every name” (Phil. 2:9), that is, the Tetragrammaton itself, which the Septuagint translates “Lord” (kyrios). On the day of the Lord, see Richard H. Hiers, “Day of Christ,” ABD vol. 2, pp. 76–79; idem, “Day of the Lord,” pp. 82–83. On Paul’s use of ... a true “majority” of the congregation (War 2.146–147). On “the destroyer” in Jewish tradition, see S. A. Meier, “Destroyer,” Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (ed. Karel van der Toorn, et al.; Leiden: Brill, ...