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jakejones

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June 1, 2022 - 7:16 am

“the last shall be first, and the first, last”

does this refute the criteria of embarrasment ? 

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Robert
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June 1, 2022 - 8:06 am
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jakejones

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June 1, 2022 - 9:22 am

hello Robert

 

in the sense that “this story has too many embarrasing details, nobody would have invented it” 

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cstu

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August 7, 2022 - 8:23 pm

Robert said
I don’t think so. In Paul’s first letter to the Christians, he indicates that most of his readers were not of high rank (1,26-29):

Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to reduce to nothing things that are, so that no one might boast in the presence of God. 

Thus, the logion about the first being last and vice versa would still be read favorably by many in the first generation of ‘Christians’.

Is that the sense in which you’re asking the question? Or perhaps you’re thinking of something like the offensive criterion of double dissimilarity?

  

The kids today call that “shade”. 

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