Do you realize that there were no prisons in the ancient world? There were often "jails" that would hold a suspect until his appearance before the judge. But there was no such thing as a sentence of long-term imprisonment. "If there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court, and the judges will hear their case. They will clear the innocent and condemn the guilty."
What a novel idea.
The last part of ch. 26 has a fantastic call to both generous justice and just generosity. God, help us follow Your ways!
Read it here.
What a novel idea.
The last part of ch. 26 has a fantastic call to both generous justice and just generosity. God, help us follow Your ways!
Read it here.
The free man and the jailed man share a common destiny according to Camus in "The Stranger." We are all condemnded to die regardless.
ReplyDeleteBut he who is joined with all the living has hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion. ~ Ecclesiastes 9:4
Our freedom is only as valuable as the weight of our slavery. If we are free by all societal acounts, yet jailed to our passions and whims, we are in bondage overall. We are prisoners wearing freemen's clothes.
2 Peter 2:18-19
18 For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error. 19 They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.