Word: saith
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Biblical "truths" putting down women that she made it her business to set the Holy Book to rights, publishing a Woman's Bible. The Scriptures bear the "impress of fallible men," she assured her readers. She particularly objected to the authors' use of the expression "The Lord saith" whenever they wanted to make a point. The story of Eve, she was happy to announce, was a fable, and woman was in no way responsible for the problems of the universe...
...saith the Spirit...
Abernathy, who maintains that "my job is to tell the politicians what saith the Lord," had an opportunity to do so when 72 friendly Congressmen, including seven Senators, invited him up to Capitol Hill. In a 90-minute meeting, he promised to discourage civil disobedience-except "as a last resort." In turn, the Congressmen promised to set up what Michigan's Democratic Senator Philip Hart called a "bipartisan, biracial" committee of 15 to 17 members to confer weekly with Abernathy and his lieutenants...
Last Chance. In spelling out precisely what saith the Lord about antipoverty programs, Abernathy has been understandably vague. He vows that the poor will "plague the pharaohs of this nation with plague after plague until they agree to give us meaningful jobs and a guaranteed annual income." All the same, he is well aware that with Congress considering a $6 billion budget cut, such ambitious demands are not likely to be met. He and his lieutenants would probably be happy to settle for far more limited steps-notably, a reversal by Congress of the 1967 freeze...
...prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord; Say, a sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished: it is sharpened to make a sore slaughter ... Slay utterly old and young, both maids and little children, and women...