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Alexander Henderson on Respecting Rulers Without Sin (With an Example From Alexander the Great)
"It well become us, with all thankfulness to receive so ample a testimony of his majesty's goodness, and not to disesteem the smallest crumbs of comfort that fall to us of his majesty's liberality. With our hearts do we acknowledge before God, and with our mouth do we desire to testify to the...- Sam Jer
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John Hyrcanus - a Saviour From Zion Who Fulfilled the Prophecy of Obadiah
And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord's. (Obadiah 21) A while after God's people returned to Judea with Ezra, Nehemiah and Zerubabel, and rebuilt the House of God, and received the prophets Zechariah, Haggai, and Malachi, the...- Sam Jer
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Alexander the Great and God's People; Also, a Question About Divorcing Unbelievers
When Jaddua was the high priest, an important Kuthean (i.e Samaritan) named Sanballat gave his daughter Nicaso as a wife to Jaddua's brother Manasseh. However, the leaders of the people, and eventually Jaddua himself, were uneasy with this marriage to a foreigner, and tried to get him to divorce...- Sam Jer
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A Possibly More Credible Origin Story for the LXX
Philadelphus was the king of Egypt, in the days that the Ptolemaic dynasty ruled over Egypt and Judea. When he, an avid book collector, heard of the scriptures, he desired to have them translated and added to his library. One of the king's friends, Aristeus, desired to free the many enslaved...- Sam Jer
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