To: Campion
Obviously if he is the "firstborn," and we are the "many brethren," then he is our eldest brother. Sorry; but your logic is wrong.
When I was in the service, I was an American AMONG many brethen: the Thai citizens of Southeast Asia.
Simple parsing.
30 posted on
07/18/2012 6:07:03 AM PDT by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
To: Elsie
When I was in the service, I was an American AMONG many brethen: the Thai citizens of Southeast Asia. Read the verse again. It's not parallel to your example. You weren't firstborn among those many Thai brethren, because then you would have been part of their family.
124 posted on
07/18/2012 7:37:07 PM PDT by
Campion
("Social justice" begins in the womb)
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