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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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