Woe to you lawyers! You load men up with burdens grievous to bear, while you yourselves do not lift a finger to help carry these burdens. Woe to you! You build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. You yourselves are witnesses that you approve the deeds of your fathers: they killed them, and you build their tombs! Therefore also the wisdom of God has said, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will slay and persecute, so that the blood of the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah who perished between the altar and the temple. Truly I say to you, it will be required of this generations. Woe to you, lawyers! You have taken away the key of knowledge. You have not entered in yourselves, and those who were entering in you have hindered.
I intend to be a lawyer because of, not despite, Jesus’ harsh words to lawyers. He implicates them in the destruction of Jerusalem and in the blood of every righteous man slain from the foundations of the earth. It would be an understatement to say that a negative view of lawyers has some scriptural basis. Nevertheless, it is because of the things the wisdom of God says about law that I am choosing lawyering as an occupation rather than trying to make my career in biblical studies, either in academia or behind the pulpit. Read More
Highlights of Last Night’s Republican Debate
I’m writing these down from my notes, as I copied them, verbatim. To know whether they’re exactly accurate, you’ll have to check the transcript. Read More »
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