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โง Easter Oratorio โง
The Easter Oratorio, BWV 249, is one of three oratorios composed by Johann Sebastian Bach for high holiday services of the Lutheran church in Leipzig. He wrote an autograph score (page pictured) in 1738, but had already composed the music in 1725 for two works: the congratulatory Shepherd Cantata and a church cantata for Easter. The ...
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Martin Luther taught that covetousnessโthe restless desire for moreโmust be put to death. The Christian test is plain: the Golden Rule, dealing with others as we would be dealt with, the foundation of equity and justice.
Yet today complaints of unfairness are often dismissed as envy, and the charge of coveting is turned upon the complainant rather than the sin.
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Andreas Hyperius, a 16th-century Flemish Lutheran/Reformed theologian, reads โYou shall not stealโ with unnerving specificity: withholding wages, shaving pay, defaulting on what is owed. His moral clarity assumes obedience reaches into ordinary economic lifeโeven where raising such concerns makes people bristle. Scripture leaves little room for comfortable evasions.
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