To: wideawake
Unlike the Protestant of Jewish Bibles, the Catholic Bible considers the Books of the Maccabees to be Holy Scripture and Mel Gibson has a real cultural reason to want to make this film. Was the story in Maccabees of the pious woman and her seven sons of the same period? Yeeeeeeesh.
28 posted on
12/08/2004 12:35:21 PM PST by
Aquinasfan
(Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
To: Aquinasfan
Was the story in Maccabees of the pious woman and her seven sons of the same period? Yeeeeeeesh.Indeed it was. Why the "ye . . . esh"? It's a beautiful, inspiring story.
29 posted on
12/08/2004 12:36:53 PM PST by
wideawake
(God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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