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To: pbear8

In ancient ROME, people who robbed temples were thrown to the wild beasts in the arena.


8 posted on 06/12/2014 7:55:15 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need more than seven rounds, Much more.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
In ancient ROME, people who robbed temples were thrown to the wild beasts in the arena.

Works for me.

12 posted on 06/12/2014 8:20:36 AM PDT by ELS
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
In ancient ROME, people who robbed temples were thrown to the wild beasts in the arena.

Nowadays they are the wild beasts in the arena.

14 posted on 06/12/2014 8:27:31 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar; Mastador1

They threw Christian and priests into the arena. So you are saying these priests got what they deserved? Since the reference is clearly to pre-Christian Rome, that’s what the reference suggests.


36 posted on 06/12/2014 11:03:38 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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