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Tip-Off #100 - Silent Power

Tip-Off #100 - Silent Power

"It was of the essence of the trial/ You shouldn't understand it at the time. It had to seem unmeaning to have meaning." - God's Speech to Job, "A Masque of Reason" - Robert Frost.

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Paul Robeson, 1942. Image: Gordon Parks. Wikimedia Commons

Remember the story of Job, one of the most famous and least understood figures in the Bible. A frustrated rabbi joked, "When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt on the ground and cried to the heavens, 'Why God? Why me?' and the voice of God thundered, 'There's ju…

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