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Tue May 3 10:41:24 EDT 2011
Where is Your zeal, Your power?
Your yearning and Your love
Are being withheld from us!
16Surely You are our Father:
Though Abraham regard us not,
And Israel recognize us not,
You, O Lord, are our Father;
Tanakh, The Holy Scriptures, (Philadelphia, Jerusalem: Jewish Publication
Society) 1985.
End of sermon.
Regarding the Greek -- a direct object does not require an article, but may
have one. I assume your question is regarding why one would speak of God as
"a Father" rather than as "the Father" or "our Father." My impression is
that he is speaking of a class -- the class of those called "father" who are
impartial judges examining their children's deeds. Rather than that
conception he states that the addressees were freed from bondage to their
tradition.
gfsomsel
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