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To: livius
The Old Testament is essentially the story of this, and it is clear that polygamy was one of the things that God led the Jews away from.

Many of the things that the Jews were weaned away from would fall nowadays under the catchall expression, "values of the marketplace". Sometimes the markets are not your friend.

John Bunyan referred to worldly values frequently in his Pilgrim's Progress as impediments to the pilgrim. Worldliness was a particular concern of Reformation-era English Protestants.

35 posted on 05/18/2008 3:28:20 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: lentulusgracchus

That’s a good way of putting it - these are “values of the marketplace” in the sense that they are the “values” of a world where material power is all-important and the person who happens to hold it can do whatever he wants. Perhaps we could say that worldliness is the rejection of the world as planned by God (which was revealed to the Jews and then to the Gentiles) and its replacement by a world that is subject to the whims of the powerful (a tribe, its leader, men in the tribe, etc.), or of the powerful individual who seeks to assert his domination rather than living as God calls him to live.


39 posted on 05/18/2008 3:36:58 AM PDT by livius
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