GR translation: the old dispensation

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Mon Nov 14 07:00:11 CST 2011


sort of like Old Testament and New Testament

just off the top of my head, dispensation would be a received body of
law, tradition, mores, etc



On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 12:27 AM, Mike Jing
<gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> P167.18-23  The truth will be repressed or in ages of particular
> elegance be disguised as something else. What will Rathenau, past the
> moment, years into a new otherside existence, have to say about the
> old dispensation? Probably nothing as incredible as what he might have
> said just as the shock flashed his mortal nerves, as the Angel swooped
> in. . . .
>
> What is the meaning of "dispensation" here?
>



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