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All things done in meekness4/2/2023 Paul here passes from the negative aspects of love, summed up in forbearance, to the more positive and energetic enthusiasm for unity and peace. (See 2Timothy 4:9-21 Hebrews 4:11 2Peter 1:10.) It shows that St. The word rendered “endeavouring” is, in the original, a word expressing “earnestness” of thought and exertion to secure a thing not lightly obtained. “Meekness” is mostly “gentleness”-“the meek and quiet spirit” ( 1Peter 3:4)-the natural, though not the invariable, fruit of humility, winning souls by its very absence of bitter self-assertion, and so “inheriting the earth.” “Longsuffering” is the manifestation of such meekness, with something of especial effort and struggle, in the bearing of injury. It is, indeed, a word new coined in Christian terminology, and even the root from which it comes is mostly used by the heathen moralists in a bad sense (of meanness and slavishness), of which there is still a trace in Colossians 2:18. Paul only in the Epistles of the Captivity ( Philippians 2:3 Colossians 2:18 Colossians 2:23 Colossians 3:12) and in the address to the Ephesian presbyters ( Acts 20:19). For more information, visit Commentary for English Readers(2) With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering.-See Colossians 3:12, where the same three qualities are dwelt upon, but there introduced by “compassion and kindness.” They seem to correspond almost exactly to the first, third, and fifth beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount, in which the principle of love is wrought out in various forms (as in the other beatitudes the principle of righteousness): “Blessed are the poor in spirit ” “Blessed are the meek ” “Blessed are the merciful.” The word “lowliness of mind” is used by St. The live storytelling event is a part of Martin's Going There series. 1 to look back on the city's historic bus boycott on its 60th anniversary. We miss who she was and what it took, and what she's asking of us today.Īll Things Considered weekend host Michel Martin heads to Montgomery on Dec. and we miss the fierceness of Rosa Parks. If we want to think about the way it portrays Rosa Parks, it traps her on the bus. It's a story that makes us feel good about how far we've come. But the story that we're told is a happy ending story. I mean, Rosa Parks will continue to the end of her life fighting for racial justice, fighting for criminal justice, fighting for a more just foreign policy, fighting for real school desegregation, real change in the curriculum. Rosa Parks'Īnd I think what having to see what it took, having to see Rosa Parks and many other people continue for decades. Jeanne Theoharis, author of 'The Rebellious Life of Mrs. We miss the perseverance.We miss who she was and what it took, and what she's asking of us today. They will move to Detroit in 1957 because things are so tough in Montgomery. In fact, it takes 11 years for the Parks to post an annual income equal to what they're making in 1955. They're living in the Cleveland Courts projects when she makes her bus stand. I think we also have this myth that she's middle-class. So the whole boycott, they are in deep economic trouble. They never find steady work in Montgomery ever again. ![]() ![]() ![]() She loses her job her husband loses his job. ![]() On what it cost the Parks family to maintain the boycott try to bring cases where other black women have been victims of sexual violence or rape. She basically tells him "you can rape my dead body." And we'll see the same kind of resolve in the 1940s. She's working for a white couple and a white neighbor of theirs is let in the house, gets a drink, puts his hand on her waist. Rosa Parks, like many black women, was doing domestic work in her late teens. On how, in addition to civil rights and voting rights, Parks was also an anti-rape activist
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