Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 00:10:37 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD logo... Message-ID: <3E9E536D.2D90D495@mindspring.com> References: <20030416104202.7271aed3.flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> <3E9E1DBD.A5443B39@mindspring.com> <20030416225100.A12786@znfgre.tberna.bet>
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Doug Barton wrote: > > Actually in Job, Satan's more like God's "Attorney General". > > Getting back to Job, sah-tahn isn't so much in god's employ as he is > bringing suit in his own defense. His argument more or less boils down to, > "See God? I'm not the only one of your creations that's likely to crack. > Take that fellow Job. He CLAIMS that he loves you, but that's just because > he has had such an easy life. Make things tough on him, and he'll curse > your name just like I did." It's actually one of the more interesting > stories in the old testament, mostly because it was written specifically > to be an interesting story (or fable, which is a story with a moral, to > borrow a greek term from a later era). So, basically, Job's been charged, and he's put on trial over the charges, then acquitted. Sounds like God's "Attorney General" to me... -- Terry
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