He reads Babylon's divine construction as a political trap: if the city is built by and for the gods, residents are taught that their enslavement is their proper home.
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Divine City
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"...the end and this is to establish that Babylon is the divine city. If it's divine, it means you can't leave it. You already..."
"shrine to house a pedestal wherein we may repose when we finish the work. When Marduk heard this, he beamed as brightly as the..."
"...Rome is just a temporal, earthly city, but Jerusalem is a divine city."
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