tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899091925608643176.post2345129198295063465..comments2023-10-19T02:34:26.595-07:00Comments on Team Milton: Grafted ThoughtGideon Burtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08282494104976426309noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899091925608643176.post-83268445001561509122013-10-17T21:50:11.551-07:002013-10-17T21:50:11.551-07:00One idea that I've come back to over and over ...One idea that I've come back to over and over as I've read these verses is а concept referred to in Russian as "the great relocation of the nations." Wikipedia calls it just "the Migration Period" in English, but to sum up my thoughts on the matter, basically, around 600 BC, all sorts of influential thinkers and reformers popped up all around the world (and all within about 100 years of each other). We're talking Lao Tzu, Lehi, Confucius, Buddha, Zoroaster, Jeremiah, and a number of other highly influential spiritual and social thinkers. I don't think it's coincidence, and in fact, I think it's a literal fulfillment of Jacob 5:8, 11, i.e. that it grieved God to lose the tree (a word that in its linguistic origins comes from the same word as true or truth), so He thus scattered it among the most nether parts of the vineyard.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04730559977449669957noreply@blogger.com