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| “Or how much curious and loving attention was expended by the first man who looked hard enough at the insides of trees, the entrails of cats, the hind ends of horses and the juice of pine tree to realize he could turn them all into the first fiddle. No doubt his wife urged him to get up and do something useful. I am sure that he was a stalwart enough lover of things to pay no attention at all to her nagging; but how wonderful it would have been if he had known what we know now about his dawdling. He could have silenced her with the greatest riposte of all time: Don’t bother me; I am creating the possibility of the Bach unaccompanied sonatas” (Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb, p. 19 HT to Doug Wilson |
Philip: I think Jesus was speaking not just to Judas, but to His disciples as well, and, by extension, to the Church. I think this because the KJV renders the subject of the verb “have” as “ye,” which is plural.
Confer also Deuteronomy 15:11 – “There will always be some among you who are poor. That is why I am commanding you to share your resources freely with the poor and with other Israelites in need.” (NLT)
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