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Seek the Welfare of the City, Part 1

Seek the Welfare of the City, Part 1

Where does the concept of "philanthropy" come from? Where did we get the idea of erecting hospitals, orphanages, homes for the elderly and infirm? Today we might think that these institutions were created by billionaires who made their money off railroads, steel mills or the stock market, or perhaps the government dreamed them up. But the historical fact is that these institutions for the public well-being were created during the one-thousand-year-long Byzantine Christian Empire. Only later did these ideas take root in Western Europe, and from there to the rest of the world.

When the people of Israel were carried away into Babylonian captivity because they had forsaken the Lord, many of them thought they should form their own closed cultural group to preserve their ethnic identity, having as little to do as possible with Babylon. But the prophet Jeremiah told them - "Seek the welfare of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the Lord for it; for in its welfare you shall have welfare. ...For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope for your future. You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart. I will be found of you, says the Lord, and I will return you from captivity". (Jer. 29:7, 11-14)

Thus the idea of seeking the welfare or well-being of society at large seeped from the Jewish nation to surrounding nations such as Babylon, Greece and Rome, but those nations limited such social programs to "their own kind," not sharing their wealth with other tribes and peoples. It took Christ's Great Commission to "Go into all the world and make disciples of all nations" before this idea of sharing one's well-being with others - even one's enemies - could take root.

For the first three hundred years Christians were "in captivity" of frequent persecutions, but still reached out in love to those around them. Why? Because Christ Himself was and is the great Philanthropos, the "Lover of Mankind." This divine love for mankind enables us to perform genuine philanthropy:

"The philanthropy of man is theologically grounded in the philanthropy of God. Although God is completely unknown in His nature, He becomes known through His revelation to mankind and in history as philanthropic and merciful. The philanthropy of God is apparent, among other signs, in the nature of man, in his destiny, and in his place in creation. Only man is created 'according to the image and likeness of God' (Gen. 1:26). Only he exists as a person who comes into communion with God. Only man has as his destiny an eternal progress, through a process of inner purification and sanctification, towards the attainment of the divine likeness." (Miltiadis Vantsos and Marina Kiroudi, "An Orthodox View of Philanthropy and Church Diaconia," Christian Bioethics, 13:251-268, 2007, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, p. 253)

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Our first news article IS AN EAGLE EGG MORE VALUABLE THAN A BABY? aptly describes the upside-down, nihilistic value system with which the younger generation are being indoctrinated. It is also quite hypocritical: if these brainwashed half-grownups would practice on themselves what they preach for others - the unborn - we wouldn't be having these foolish arguments. Another foolish fad is the 1619 Project of The New York Times that aims "to reframe the country's history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are." This 1619 Project simply recycles the mainstream garbage of today's Leftists: one clueless candidate recently stated: "this country was founded on racism, has persisted through racism and is racist today."

Where did this slanderous nonsense originate from? It goes back to an Italian communist named Antonio Gramsci, one of the fathers of "cultural Marxism," who called on socialists and communists in the 1930s to undermine Western culture from within to prepare the soil for the overthrow of capitalism and liberalism. No-fault divorce, "free love," abortion, and fomenting racial division all contribute to this. In the 1960s, a German activist named Rudi Dutschke called this project "the long march through the institutions" - the gradual takeover of education, news media, and government to advocate and legislate for these policies.

They fail to acknowledge that the Pilgrims swore off slavery during their voyage to the New World: my ancestor Edward Doty was a "white slave" belonging to one of the Pilgrims. Enroute to America, the Pilgrims decided that there should not be slavery in the New World, so Doty and other slaves were given their freedom on board the Mayflower, he became a Pilgrim, and he signed the Mayflower Compact. Roger Sherman, a descendant of the "white slave" Edward Doty, was the only person to sign all four founding documents of the United States of America: the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. These documents upheld the principles of freedom and justice for all people, which took another ninety years to realize: Roger Sherman's desendant, General William Tecumseh Sherman, co-led the Union Army during the Civil War along with another descendant of Edward Doty, General Ulysses S. Grant, to put an end to slavery in the U.S.

In both 1619 and 1776, slavery was sadly a worldwide phenomenon: the British sold the Irish into slavery in the New World, Africans sold other Africans into the slave trade, and Muslims enslaved Europeans. We don't like to admit that white people enslaved other white people, but read They Were White and They Were Slaves by Michael Hoffman that describes this gruesome practice. Also see The Irish Slaves: Slavery, Indenture and Contract labor Among Irish Immigrants by Rhetta Akamatsu, and White Cargo: the Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America by Don Jordan and Michael Walsh. So slavery wasn't just a racist phenomenon. The fact that we publish such books simply underlines the truth that it is the United States which has led the world in abolishing slavery!

 

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Our second news article RUSSIA: PENTECOSTAL CHURCH TO BE DEMOLISHED? and our sixth news article BELARUS: NEW FINES OR PRISON TIME FOR UNAPPROVED WORSHIP explain once again how the secularist-socialist, anti-God worldview still keeps cropping up to deny Christians their constitutional right to the freedom of religious expression. This right is enshrined in the new Russian Constitution, just as it is in the U.S. Constitution, but the secularist-socialists have found a way to undermine this fundamental freedom: pass local housing and zoning regulations that effectively block religious believers from having a place to gather and worship: "What the right hand giveth, the left hand taketh away."

HEAD OF GREEK CHURCH TO DECIDE TO RECOGNIZE OCU, GREEK SYNOD RESOLVES, our third news article, describes how the Synod of the Greek Orthodox Church has decided to recognize the new Orthodox Church of Ukraine. Another news story from that website, OCU CLAIMS TO BE RECOGNIZED BY ALEXANDRIAN CHURCH, tells that Bishop Chrysostom of Mozambique, who comes under the Patriarch of Alexandria, concelebrated a liturgy in Greece along with hierarchs from the OCU, which indicates recognition.

 

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Our fourth news article PARISHIONERS OF THE "RUSSIAN EXARCHATE" IN PARIS ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT JOINING THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH indicates that the Moscow Church is taking control of Orthodox parishes in Western Europe, in reaction to a recent letter to them from the Ecumenical Patriarchate that the Russian Exarchate is disbanded and these parishes should come under the Patriarch of Constantinople - one more gambit in the unfortunate schism between Orthodox Churches of Moscow and Constantinople.

And lastly, POLISH PRAYER EVENT BRINGS TOGETHER 60,000 CATHOLICS 'UNDER THE CROSS', our fifth news article, illustrates the high level of religious devotion among Polish Christians. It tells not only how Polish believers, but also believers around the world, have found comfort in their persecution and grief by laying their burdens at the foot of the Cross. Have you?

 

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IS AN EAGLE EGG MORE VALUABLE THAN A BABY?
from: Prager U

Are eagle eggs more valuable than babies? Bald eagle eggs are protected under U.S. federal law, but there is no federal law protecting children from abortion. Will Witt takes to the streets to find out if people in Los Angeles would sign a petition to protect eagle eggs along with a petition to protect babies in the womb.

In this video, Will Witt first asks people on the street to sign a petition protecting unhatched bald eagles and of course each person signs the petition. Then he asks them to sign a second petition protecting unborn human babies and each one of these people refuses to sign it, saying they're "pro-choice" or that a woman has the right to control her own body - standard pro-abortion arguments, showing they have been indoctrinated by the Left.[read more --]

 

 

RUSSIA: PENTECOSTAL CHURCH TO BE DEMOLISHED?
by Victoria Arnold: Forum 18 News Service

Forum 18 News Service (17 Sep.) Officials want to demolish Good News Pentecostal Church in Samara, a city on the Volga River in European Russia, claiming that it does not belong to the congregation. Congregation members, who have worshiped in the church for more than twenty years, would have to pay for the demolition. Officials have repeatedly rejected the congregation's attempts to legalise the church's ownership of the land plot, which was allocated to it in 1997.

The suit brought by Samara's Town Planning Department is due to begin at Samara Regional Arbitration Court on 25 September. The Church again tried to regularise its situation in 2018. "In the end, instead of registration of the land after almost a year and a half of attempts, we got a lawsuit to demolish our prayer house. Now we are attempting to defend our rights in court," Pastor Yury Ivanov told Forum 18 from Samara. "What a mockery of the feelings of believers." Officials at Samara's Town Planning Department failed to respond to Forum 18's written questions asking why they wish to demolish the Church and why it cannot be legalised retroactively.

Many religious communities across Russia continue to face the loss of their places of worship because of alleged violations of planning regulations. Since municipal authorities are usually unwilling to permit the construction of purpose-built churches, congregations can be obliged to meet in residential, agricultural, or commercial buildings. This leaves them vulnerable to the complexities and contradictions of the legislation which regulates the use of land. A key feature of many of these cases is that the congregations in question have often worshiped in their buildings for years, even decades, without any problems before somehow drawing the adverse attention of the authorities or falling foul of amendments to local planning laws.

In another recent case, officials have barred a Baptist community in Novorossiysk from using its church "for religious purposes" (https://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2505), despite the fact that it has worshiped on the same site for two decades. At the same time, individuals and religious communities are at growing risk of punishment if they exercise their right to freedom of religion or belief by meeting for worship on land not designated for the purpose, such as in homes (https://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=2362). [read more --]

 

 

HEAD OF GREEK CHURCH TO DECIDE TO RECOGNIZE OCU, GREEK SYNOD RESOLVES
from: Religious Information Service of Ukraine

Greek church to recognize OCU (28 Aug.) The official website of the Orthodox Church of Greece made a release on the results of the meeting of the Holy Synod, held on August 26-28 this year.

In an earlier article, the Patriarch of Constantinople declared that sooner or later, OCU will be recognized by all Local Churches, but the Greek Orthodox Church will be the first to do it. If there had been no political pressure on the Local Churches, the decision to recognize the OCU might have long been a fait accompli. Patriarch Bartholomew spoke about this at a meeting with the Ukrainians, which was held in Istanbul the day before, reports TSN.

"In the past few months we have been witnessing the situation developing in Ukraine. Perhaps, the decision to recognize the Orthodox Church of Ukraine would be made if, of course, there were no political pressure from different countries on our sisters – Local Orthodox Churches. We hope that in the near future it will be over."

"We pray and hope that all Local Orthodox Churches will sooner or later recognize the independence of the OCU. But the first Church to recognize the Orthodox Church of Ukraine will be our sister-Church – the Greek Orthodox Church," said the Ecumenical Patriarch. [read more --]

 

 

PARISHIONERS OF THE "RUSSIAN EXARCHATE" IN PARIS ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT JOINING THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH
from: Interfax-Religion

Interfax Religion (16 Sep.) The news about accepting the leader and parishes of the "Russian exarchate" under jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church inspired parishioners of the exarchate's cathedral in France.

"I've just talked to a cleric of St.Alexander of Neva Cathedral in Paris. The church was full at the liturgy, parishioners with tears in their eyes thanked Archbishop John for a long-awaited decision," deputy administrator of the Moscow Patriarchate Bishop Savva writes in his Telegram channel.

Many people came from other parishes and conveyed their gratitude to Patriarch Kirill, he said. "Now we are with our Patriarch and with our Church," they said. "The joyful weariness from successful overcoming a long way was in the air," the bishop cited his interlocutor.

As was reported, the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church accepted head of former Constantinople's "Russian exarchate" in Western Europe and all parishes which would like to follow him. The reason of such a decision was a desire of most parishioners to return to the Mother-Church, as the exarchate had had to separate from it after revolutionary events in Russia.

Late last year the Constantinople Synod unilaterally abolished "the Russian exarchate", thus forcing it to search for new options of its canonical future. [read more --]

 

 

POLISH PRAYER EVENT 'UNDER THE CROSS' BRINGS TOGETHER 60,000 CATHOLICS
from: Crux

under the Cross (17 Sep.) Over 60,000 people participated in the "Poland Under the Cross" prayer gathering last weekend for an event organized by the Solo Dios Basta community and the diocese of Wloclawek in central Poland.

Maciej Bodasinski and Lech Dokowicz, along with a small team, organized a prayer event the size of World Youth Day, including 60,000 participants at Wloclawek airport, and Catholics from more than one hundred dioceses in Poland and beyond. In addition, over a million viewers of TVP - the Polish public broadcaster - tuned in to pray for the Church.

"Christians are physically and psychologically persecuted around the globe; we are experiencing a true Golgotha. There is just so much evil in the world that there is no other thing to turn to than the cross of our Lord," said Dokowicz.

The heart of the event was the Way of the Cross - a professional presentation with the testimony of 11 people who say the Cross saved them from darkness, including families dealing with cancer, those hurt by abuse, survivors of abortion, and families of murder victims.

One mother who had an abortion said that only after delivering a healthy baby did she realize that she was experiencing post-abortion trauma. "I was constantly afraid someone would take the baby away from me. I wanted to literally move to the Church back then because it was the only place where I felt safe," she said.

Another mother spoke of her 13-year-old daughter who was murdered after being raped only 300 yards from her house. "She died looking at the window of her room. Only later I realized that when I lifted her dead body after finding her, it was as much suffering as Mary experienced lifting her child from the Cross," she said, adding that only her faith and acceptance of her cross allowed her to return to a normal life. [read more --]

 

 

BELARUS: NEW FINES OR PRISON TIME FOR UNAPPROVED WORSHIP
by Olga Glace: Forum 18 News Service

Forum 18 News Service (12 Sep.) Punishments for organising or participating in unregistered religious activities, including meetings for worship, were changed on 18 July from possible prison terms under the Criminal Code to fines under a new provision of the Administrative Code. Individuals can now be fined up to five weeks' average wage for those in work. Human rights defenders described it as "particularly alarming" that such summary fines can be handed down by police without any court hearing.

"Some church members will be scared and stop coming to worship services or, God forbid, the authorities will impose a restraining order on the church's property," the leader of a Christian church which has struggled for registration for decades commented to Forum 18.

Human rights defender Leonid Sudalenko is among critics of the new punishments. "Why can't people form religious organisations without asking permission from the authorities?" he told Forum 18. "Their rights must be respected." But a senior government religious affairs official in the capital Minsk dismissed religious communities' concerns over the punishments for unapproved exercise of the right to freedom of religion or belief.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus welcomed the abolition of the criminal punishment for organising or participating in the activity of unregistered organisations. But she complained that they are subject to punishment under the Administrative Code. She described the changes as only "small steps."

The regime bans all exercise of the right to freedom of religion or belief without state permission. Religious communities which cannot get the required state permission to exist – or which choose not to seek it – risk punishment when they meet for worship. However, raids on unapproved worship meetings have lessened in recent years. [read more --]

 

 

OTHER NEWS HEADLINES:

UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE AGAIN DEMANDS THAT RUSSIA ROLL BACK EVICTION OF UKRAINIAN CHURCH FROM TEMPLE IN OCCUPIED SIMFEROPOL
from Unian

HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS URGED THE OSCE TO MONITOR RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION IN CRIMEA AND DONBAS
from Religious Information Service of Ukraine

CAMBODIA: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
from Mission Network News

HIGH-RANKING CULTURE MINISTRY OFFICIAL CHARGED WITH MISAPPROPRIATING MONEY PROVIDED FOR RESTORATION OF SOLOVKI OBJECTS
from Interfax-Religion

AMERICA SHOWS PREFERENCE FOR CONSTANTINOPLE IN ORTHODOX DISPUTE
from RIA Novosti

'MEDICAL ETHICS' IS ETHICS BY, FOR AND ABOUT MEDICS, NOT COMMON MORALITY, SAYS BIOETHICIST
from Bioethics

COURT RETURNS CITIZENSHIP TO UKRAINIAN BISHOP WHO WAS SUDDENLY DEPORTED UNDER POROSHENKO
from Orthodox Christianity

NORTH KOREA: PROPAGANDA VIDEO ACCUSES CHRISTIANS OF BEING "SPIES"
from ChristianPersecution.com

FOR SOME IN ROMANIA, THE PRESIDENT'S RELIGION IS A PROBLEM
from Emerging Europe

 

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Is the Bible the Only Word of God?

In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit! Glory to Jesus Christ! Glory forever!

Is the Bible the Only Word of God?In St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews, ch. 4, verse 12, we read: "For the Word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart." In how many sermons have you heard that this refers to the Bible? Over and over again, we hear preachers in church and over the radio expounding on "the Word of God" as the Bible. it has become so frequent that we've grown accustomed to equating the Bible with the Word of God, and that only the Bible is the Word of God.

But let's look at the next two verses in Hebrews ch. 4: "There is no creature that is hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of Him with Whom we have to do. Having then a Great High Priest, Who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession."

Here it becomes quite obvious that St. Paul isn't writing about the Bible: the pronouns "His" and "Him" refer to the most-recently mentioned noun, "the Word of God" - that's how pronouns work, folks. The Living Word of God is a "He", not an "it." And to make it even clearer, St. Paul wrote that He is "Jesus, the Son of God", the subject of this chapter and previous chapters, Jesus, Who is our Great High Priest, greater than Melchizedek and greater even than Moses.

In another place, St. Paul wrote: "take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God" (Ephesians 6:17). I can't tell you how many times I've heard that Paul is telling us to take the Bible and use it as a sword to cut down other people's arguments against faith in Christ. But is that really what he had in mind? Notice that Paul refers to the Word of God as being like a sword, both here and in Hebrews ch. 4. Where else do we see this sword? Look at Revelation 19:11-15a -

"I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness He judges and makes war. His eyes are a flame of fire, and on His head are many crowns. He has names written and a name written which no one knows but He Himself. He is clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood. His name is called "the Word of God." The armies which are in heaven followed Him on white horses, clothed in white, pure, fine linen. Out of His mouth proceeds a sharp, two-edged sword, that with it He should strike the nations."

This equates the "the Word of God" with the "sharp, two-edged sword" coming out of His mouth (that's where words come from). This is none other than the One Whose name is written on His garment and on His thigh: "KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS" (verse 16) - the conquering Christ Himself!

Now let us look at a couple of other passages in Revelation. First, ch. 20, v. 4: "I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the Word of God." Here "the Word of God" is a parallelism, a repetition for the sake of emphasis to clarify "the testimony of Jesus." We see the same thing in Revelation 1:1-2 -

"This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, who testified to the Word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw."

Again, John's testifying about "the Word of God" is repeated by "the testimony of Jesus Christ": Jesus Christ is the Word of God, another parallelism. The Bible is only the Word of God insofar as it testifies to the Living Word of God, Jesus Christ. We don't worship the Bible, we worship Jesus Christ. He, not the Bible, should have the first place in our creeds and statements of faith.

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The same person, the Apostle John, wrote in the preface of his Gospel: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him. Without Him was not anything made that has been made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men" (John 1:1-4). Jesus Christ is the "Logos", the "logic" of the universe, the "meaning" of life. Further in this chapter, in v. 14, we read - "The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw His glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth."

Before Jesus was born, before the Word became flesh, both the Jews and the Greeks understood that "Wisdom" in the Old Testament was identical to the "Logos" of Greek philosophy: "Does not Wisdom cry out? Does not understanding raise her voice?" (Proverbs 8:1). The wise king Solomon continues:

"I [Wisdom] was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed. When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was brought forth; while as yet He had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world. When He established the heavens, I was there; when He set a circle on the surface of the deep, when He established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong, when He gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate His commandment, when He marked out the foundations of the earth; then I was the craftsman by His side. I was a delight day by day, always rejoicing before Him, rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men" (verses 23-31).

So both Jews and Greeks understood that "Wisdom" or the "Logos" was that part of God's being which gave expression in the material universe to His creative plan. But they didn't know exactly how this would be worked out. But when "The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw His glory" - then the lights went on! Now we see! Now we understand Who they were trying to tell us about! Of course, the Apostle Peter also knew Who was and is the Word of God. But Peter warned us:

"You should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandments of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior: knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts, and saying, 'Where is the promise of His coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.' For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the Word of God; by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished. But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same Word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the Day of Judgment and destruction of ungodly men" (2 Peter 3:2-7).

The same people who mock religion in general and especially mock those Christians who believe in divine creation, in Christ's second coming and a final Judgment Day, those people believe in "Climate Change" - rising temperatures that will destroy life on earth before our children or grandchildren are grown up. Perhaps - just maybe - they need to repent, change their ways, and turn to the "Logos", the "logic" of the universe, the "meaning" of life, before the heavens and the earth meet their end in fire.

In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit! Christ is among us! He is and ever shall be!

 

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Sun. - Pray that all people will realize that unborn human babies are more valuable and worth saving than unhatched bald eagle eggs.
Mon. - Intercede for the Pentecostal church building where they've worshiped for 20 years in Samara, Russia, that is to be demolished.
Tue. - Ask God that all the national Orthodox Churches will put their nationalism aside and recognize the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
Wed. - Pray for the "Russian Exarchate" Orthodox parishes in Western Europe, that they will be able to find their true spiritual home.
Thu. - Praise the Lord that 60,000 Polish Christians could find comfort 'Under the Cross' for their grief and relief from persecution.
Fri. - Pray for Christians in Belarus, many who are afraid to meet for worship due to heavy fines, up to five weeks of average wages.
Sat. - Ask the Lord that Christians worldwide will understand that Jesus Christ, the Living Word of God, is the only Word to worship.

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  Your fellow-servants,

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