Cain and Abel are read as siblings competing for God's respect and attention through offerings.
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Offerings
A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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"...tasty awesome thank you uh Abel. And then he eats Cain's offering and Cain's very anxious. He's very excited. And then Cain's like and..."
"...you, O my brothers, peace. We turned at once, then after offering suitable response, Virgil began, and may that just tribunal which has consigned..."
"...he's spending a lot of time with the other shades, like, offering autographs, okay? Beatrice is up there watching this, and what is she..."
"...he committed suicide because his side was losing and Caesar was offering clemency to everyone. Right. And so what was going to happen is..."
"this normal human being and people are offering you like billions and billions of dollars it's hard for you to refuse okay and that's..."
"...of what was visible by faith abel brought god a better offering than cain did by faith he was commended as righteous when god..."
"...be faithful and yet circumspect not rash as jephthah was in offering his first gift he should have said i did amiss and not..."
"...let me win this battle i will give you as an offering the first person to walk in my door okay right he's made..."
"...what the daughter says is father let me make my own offering let me sacrifice myself willingly so that it absolves you of the..."
"...pagans in paradise okay does that make sense uh yes isn't offering herself some sort of suicide"
"that right now i'm offering you my interpretation okay another caveat that's very important is that we are reading this in english this is..."
"...religious scene. He's masturbating, but what he's really doing is he's offering himself to his God. Okay?"
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