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To: artichokegrower

I’m my brothers keeper or helper to the extent he can’t help or support himself, such as genuine disabilities. Beyond this, he needs to take responsibility


14 posted on 11/21/2017 7:08:48 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians aren’t born, they’re excreted.” - Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: faithhopecharity
I’m my brothers keeper or helper to the extent he can’t help or support himself, such as genuine disabilities. Beyond this, he needs to take responsibility

You are all ignoring the fact that "keeper" - as used by Cain - meant something akin to "animal-keeper" or (as we would say today) "herder."

One still sees the true meaning in the modern term "zookeeper."

Cain was - rather insolently, to be sure - posing the rhetorical question: "Is my brother an animal? Do you expect me to hold him in a 'keep' him the same way he 'keeps' his sheep?"

Regards,

29 posted on 11/21/2017 9:05:51 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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