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The reading has Statius explicitly say that Christian preachers sounded like Virgil, which is how the poem became a road into baptism for him.
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Preachers
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...faith by then had penetrated all the world and the new preachers preached in such accord with what you'd said and i have just..."
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Because the Bible has been redacted many times and contains multiple sources, Jiang says most people understand it through preachers rather than reading it in its entirety.
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"...faith by then had penetrated all the world and the new preachers preached in such accord with what you'd said and i have just..."
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"...Bible. Most people get their get understanding from the Bible from preachers. Okay? And preachers will explain to you what these stories mean but..."
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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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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central argument: the Hebrew Bible becomes world-shaping not because it records early history, but because David's political project finds a poet-god, a poet-king, and a Yahwist whose few...
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