Dave,
Yes, they are imperatives gramatically, but how do fish follow orders?
Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, David F Siemens wrote:
> Gordon,
> There is a small problem with your statement about God's blessing, for
> the verbs of those blessings are imperatives, commands, mandates, orders.
> Also, Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament says that "to bless"
> means "to endue with power for . . ." We think of blessings as benefits,
> not empowerments. Paul is correct in calling them mandates.
> Dave
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