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...Reeds rather than the Red Sea. Moralists may be chagrined at the retranslation of the Third Commandment, which now reads, ''You shall not swear falsely by the name of the Lord your God; for the Lord will not clear one who swears falsely by His name"-a dictum against perjury but not profanity. From increased knowledge of ancient Hebrew, the scholars translated the Hebrew nefesh to mean "the man himself" rather than his soul-since the Biblical Hebrews had no concept of soul. They also decided that the first paragraph of Genesis describes primeval wind, rather than...
...CHURCH & NON-CATHOLICS. One of the sternest of Catholic beliefs is the old dictum that "outside the church there is no salvation." In practice, this hard-boiled doctrine has been broadly interpreted in recent centuries: the last theologian to teach that non-Catholics cannot be saved -Boston's ex-Jesuit Leonard Feeney-was excommunicated in 1953 for so arguing. The council may make a doctrinal statement on the church as the mystical body of Christ that would emphasize the nonjuridical aspects of Catholicism, and spell out the type of relationship that all Christians, and nonbaptized persons in good faith...
...tenant is fusty and taciturn. But . B.H.P., as the 77-year-old steelmaker is known Down Under, has paced- and made possible-the galloping growth of Australian industry since World War II. In the process, it has become a sort of Australian version of A.T. & T., refuting the old dictum that basic industry in a democracy cannot be entrusted to a monopoly...
...Another Dictum. The Allies fired off stiffly worded protests to Moscow against the East German regime's "coldblooded killings." Before the Western notes could be delivered, East German policemen standing at the West Berlin border pumped 30 machine gun bullets into a fleeing 19-year-old East Berliner who was already inside the French sector. He died...
Bright Work is the phrase for chrome, which got to be a nasty word in the industry a few years ago. It will dress up the '63 Ford and Mercury models, which are otherwise little changed. Ford is going back to the dictum that "chrome is everybody's favorite color." The General Motors Chevies will continue to go light on bright work...