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...destruction of her home town and is turned to-now if that's a pillar of salt the Venus de Milo is Mother Machree. And the big blast in the last reel is a low-cost holocaust, obviously done in miniature, that practically constitutes an insult to Jehovah...
...live only if he forgets his own resentment and takes responsibility for his own actions. As presented by Crump, Morgan is not so much a victimized black as a man so full of hate that he can't see straight. Morgan confuses his father with the angry Jehovah his father so often quotes. When he steals for the first time, he hears the voice of Jehovah calling "Thou shalt not steal." "Shut up, you son-of-a-bitch," Morgan snaps as if in reply. "You shouldn't have gone away with Zola." But most of Crump...
Driver and his team are ruthlessly pruning archaisms from their translation: saith and doth are out; thee and thou are not used, except when God is addressed. Lord (in capital letters) will be used in place of Jehovah-a philologically meaningless attempt to render the sacred Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH. The translators are also trying to weed out what Driver calls "nonsense" caused by faulty reading of the manuscripts. In Psalm 2, for example, "Tremble before him and kiss his feet in homage" will replace a serious misinterpretation in the King James Version: "Rejoice with trembling. Kiss the son, lest...
...permanently transformed their color over the course of years. In the Public Garden, which faces Beacon St. near the foot of the Hill, you can take a ride in a Swan Boat. Crossing the road, you enter historic Boston Common, where cows once grazed and where now Irishmen, Italians, Jehovah's Witnesses, and various others debate religion. On weekends the Common resembles nothing so much as London's Hyde Park, with its vehement soapbox oratory...
...told me that he really had answered our prayers over in France. He dropped an airplane out of the sky with over 120 white people on it because the Muslims believe in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But thanks to God, or Jehovah or Allah, we will continue to pray, and we hope that every day another plane falls...