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Revelation's references to a "synagogue of satan" have inspired reams of anti-Jewish bile over the centuries. But in context, John is scorning gentile (Pauline?) Jesus-followers who have assumed a Judaic identity but practice what John views as a watered-down halakhah. For him, salvation is not effected by repentance or even by Christ per se, but only by a strict, quasi-Qumranic priestly, filial, and sexual purity.

"Let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God."

James 1:19-20


Wisdom for our time.

Sleeper, awake!
Rise from the dead,
and Christ will shine on you.

Eph. 5:14: Possibly quoting an early Christian hymn adapted from Isaiah (51:17, 60:1, etc.)