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<h2><span style="font-size: large; color: #333399;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Kicks Against the Pricks</span></strong></span></h2>
<p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Euripides : &nbsp;"kicks against the pricks" (Euripides,<em> Bacchae.</em>) </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Aeschylus:. "kicks against the pricks." (Aeschylus, <em>Agamemnon </em>1624.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Acts 26:13 "kicks against the pricks" (Luke quoting Paul's vision account)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><strong><em>Note on Euripides</em></strong>: The context is that&nbsp;Dionysus discards his divine nature and walks in the human world disguised&hellip;Dionysus, the god disguised in human form, tells him that his efforts to resist the new movement will be completely worthless; he is not contending against flesh and blood, but against a god.<strong> &ldquo;You are mortal, he is a god. If I were you, I would control my rage and sacrifice to him, rather than kick against the pricks&rdquo;</strong> [From Euripides, The <em>Bacchae</em>]. <strong><em>Source</em></strong>:</span></p>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">A. N. Wilson, <em>Paul:The Mind of the Apostle</em> (W. W. Norton &amp; Co., N.Y., 1997), pp. 75-76.</span></div>
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<h2><span style="font-size: large; color: #333399;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">'We are indeed His Offspring' and "in thee we live and move and have our being"</span></strong></span></h2>
<p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Aratus : "for we are indeed his offspring." (Aratus, <em>Phenomenae</em> / <em>Phainomena </em>1-5)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Epimenides (6th Century BC): &nbsp;"for in thee we live and move and have our being." (<em>About Zeus</em>)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Acts 17:28 - Paul teaches: "For in him we live, and move, and have our being as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring." &nbsp;&nbsp;<br /></span></p>
<h2><span style="font-size: large; color: #333399;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">'Cretans Are Always Liars'</span></strong></span></h2>
<p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Epimenides "the Cretans, always liars, evil beasts, idle bellies...." (Epimenides, <em>Cretica</em> -- a poem scolding the Cretans for making a tomb to Zeus because Epimenides believed Zeus to be eternal.)<br /><br /> Titus 1:12 "One of themselves, [even] a prophet of their own said, The Cretans [are] always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies...."</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-size: large; color: #333399;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">First learn Piety at Home </span></strong></span></h2>
<p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Publius Terentius Afer (Terence) (Latin comedy writer) 190 BC: "But if any widow have <strong><em>children or nephews</em></strong>, let them learn <strong><em>first to show piety at home</em></strong>." (<em>Andria</em> Act IV -- at this link pp <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=cMtEAQAAIAAJ&amp;dq=terence%20andria&amp;pg=PA34#v=onepage&amp;q=terence%20andria&amp;f=false">34-44</a>.)<br /><br /> 1 Tim 5:4 &nbsp;"But if any widow have <strong><em>children or nephews</em></strong> let them learn<strong><em> first to show piety at home"</em></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Better to Give Than Receive?</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">In Acts 20:35, Paul attributes to Jesus the statement it is "better to give than receive." Even though Acts is Part II of the Gospel of Luke, and Luke claims to be relying upon witnesses to collect sayings of Jesus for his Gospel, Luke does not trust Paul's claim enough to include it. Luke explained to Theophilus -- to whom Acts too is addressed:</span></p>
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<p class="lang-en" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 66px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22.4px; color: #000000; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -36pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><a rel="milestone" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #006ca6; outline: none; display: inline-block; height: 1em; width: 0px; background: transparent;" data-datatype="bible+nasb95" data-reference="Luke 1:2"></a> 2 just as <em><strong>they were handed down to us by those who&nbsp;<a href="http://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Luke%201.1-3#footnote3" rel="popup" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #006ca6; outline: none; background: transparent;" data-resourcename="nasb95"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: super; line-height: 0; background: transparent;">a</span></a>from the beginning&nbsp;<a href="http://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Luke%201.1-3#footnote4" rel="popup" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #006ca6; outline: none; background: transparent;" data-resourcename="nasb95"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: super; line-height: 0; background: transparent;">1</span></a>were<a href="http://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Luke%201.1-3#footnote5" rel="popup" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #006ca6; outline: none; background: transparent;" data-resourcename="nasb95"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: super; line-height: 0; background: transparent;">b</span></a>eyewitnesses</strong></em> and&nbsp;<a href="http://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Luke%201.1-3#footnote6" rel="popup" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #006ca6; outline: none; background: transparent;" data-resourcename="nasb95"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: super; line-height: 0; background: transparent;">2</span></a><a href="http://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Luke%201.1-3#footnote7" rel="popup" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #006ca6; outline: none; background: transparent;" data-resourcename="nasb95"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: super; line-height: 0; background: transparent;">c</span></a>servants of&nbsp;<a href="http://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Luke%201.1-3#footnote8" rel="popup" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #006ca6; outline: none; background: transparent;" data-resourcename="nasb95"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: super; line-height: 0; background: transparent;">d</span></a>the&nbsp;<a href="http://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Luke%201.1-3#footnote9" rel="popup" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #006ca6; outline: none; background: transparent;" data-resourcename="nasb95"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: super; line-height: 0; background: transparent;">3</span></a>word,</span></p>
<p class="lang-en" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 66px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 22.4px; color: #000000; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -36pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><a rel="milestone" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #006ca6; outline: none; display: inline-block; height: 1em; width: 0px; background: transparent;" data-datatype="bible+nasb95" data-reference="Luke 1:3"></a> 3 it seemed fitting for me as well,&nbsp;<a href="http://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Luke%201.1-3#footnote10" rel="popup" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #006ca6; outline: none; background: transparent;" data-resourcename="nasb95"><span style="font-size: large;">a</span></a>having&nbsp;<a href="http://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Luke%201.1-3#footnote11" rel="popup" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #006ca6; outline: none; background: transparent;" data-resourcename="nasb95"><span style="font-size: large;">1</span></a><strong><em>investigated everything carefully from the beginning</em></strong>, to write&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">it</em>&nbsp;out for you&nbsp;<a href="http://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Luke%201.1-3#footnote12" rel="popup" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #006ca6; outline: none; background: transparent;" data-resourcename="nasb95"><span style="font-size: large;">b</span></a>in consecutive order,&nbsp;<a href="http://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Luke%201.1-3#footnote13" rel="popup" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #006ca6; outline: none; background: transparent;" data-resourcename="nasb95"><span style="font-size: large;">c</span></a>most excellent&nbsp;<a href="http://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Luke%201.1-3#footnote14" rel="popup" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #006ca6; outline: none; background: transparent;" data-resourcename="nasb95"><span style="font-size: large;">d</span></a>Theophilus;...(<a href="http://biblia.com/bible/nasb95/Luke%201.1-3">Luke 1:1-3 NASB</a>)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"> Perhaps Luke omitted Paul's statement from Luke's Gospel because Luke recognized it as a paraphrase from a famous Greek history. For Thucydides in&nbsp;<em>History of the Peloponnesian War&nbsp;</em>(Thomas Hobbs, Ed.)(London: 1843), at <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Thuc.+2.97&amp;fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0247">II.97</a>&nbsp;writes:<br /></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">&nbsp;[</span><span class="english" style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">3</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">]&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">The tribute they received from all the barbarian nations and from the cities of Greece, in the reign of Seuthes (who reigned after Sitalces and made the most of it), was in gold and silver, by estimation, four hundred talents by year.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"></span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">And presents of gold and silver came to as much more, besides vestures, both wrought and plain, and other furniture presented not only to him but also to all the men of authority and Odrysian nobility about him.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">&nbsp;[</span><span class="english" style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">4</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">]&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">For they had a custom, which also was general to all Thrace contrary to that of the kingdom of Persia, <strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">to receive rather than to give</span></strong>;</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"></span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">and it was there a greater shame to be asked and deny than to ask and go without.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"></span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">Nevertheless they held this custom long by reason of their power, <em><strong>for without gifts there was nothing to be gotten done amongst them</strong></em>.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"></span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">So that this kingdom arrived thereby to great power.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">&nbsp;[</span><span class="english" style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">5</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">]&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">For of all the nations of Europe that lie between the Ionian Gulf and the Euxine Sea, it was, for revenue of money and other wealth, the mightiest;</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"></span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">though indeed for strength of an army and multitudes of soldiers, the same be far short of the Scythians.</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">&nbsp;[</span><span class="english" style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">6</span><span style="color: #000000
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