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Fear of God.249 After admonishing his students not to serve God for a reward , Antigonos urges them so to live as to reflect an attitude of mora of heaven.250 The term mora is usually translated as " fear . " This implies that the slave ...
Fear of God.249 After admonishing his students not to serve God for a reward , Antigonos urges them so to live as to reflect an attitude of mora of heaven.250 The term mora is usually translated as " fear . " This implies that the slave ...
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to believe that Rabban Yoḥanan ben Zakkai was unhappy at the thought that Job served God out of fear rather than out of love.255 Rabbi Meir , too , seems to have been uneasy about describing men like Abraham and Job as God - fearing men ...
to believe that Rabban Yoḥanan ben Zakkai was unhappy at the thought that Job served God out of fear rather than out of love.255 Rabbi Meir , too , seems to have been uneasy about describing men like Abraham and Job as God - fearing men ...
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Such people can be said to love honor , and the more one loves honor , the more he will fear disgrace . . . . For to fear some things is ever right and noble , and it is base not to fear them . For example , disgrace : he who fears this ...
Such people can be said to love honor , and the more one loves honor , the more he will fear disgrace . . . . For to fear some things is ever right and noble , and it is base not to fear them . For example , disgrace : he who fears this ...
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| Title | The Ethical in the Jewish and American Heritage Volume 4 of Moreshet series : studies in Jewish history, literature and thought Volume 4 of Moreshet series |
| Author | Simon Greenberg |
| Publisher | Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Dec 2006 |
| ISBN | 0873340027, 9780873340021 |
| Length | 327 pages |
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