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<blockquote data-quote="FireDragon76" data-source="post: 77644341" data-attributes="member: 330042"><p>One of my favorite verses in the whole Bible, actually. By analogy, I suppose, the verse could be understood as the apocalyptic expectation that the world to come will be rid of all exploitation that defaces the creation. But that wasn't the original author's intent.</p><p></p><p>Understanding the background of Revelation is useful. It seems to have come from a rural community (perhaps in Syria) on the edges of an empire, and their perspective. In alot of rural areas, the actual land was owned by wealthy absentee landlords who lived far away, and local people were itinerant farmers who were mostly poor and in debt. And it's these types of social arrangements that are seen as the curse the world is going to be rid of in the age to come, for the author.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FireDragon76, post: 77644341, member: 330042"] One of my favorite verses in the whole Bible, actually. By analogy, I suppose, the verse could be understood as the apocalyptic expectation that the world to come will be rid of all exploitation that defaces the creation. But that wasn't the original author's intent. Understanding the background of Revelation is useful. It seems to have come from a rural community (perhaps in Syria) on the edges of an empire, and their perspective. In alot of rural areas, the actual land was owned by wealthy absentee landlords who lived far away, and local people were itinerant farmers who were mostly poor and in debt. And it's these types of social arrangements that are seen as the curse the world is going to be rid of in the age to come, for the author. [/QUOTE]
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