GR translation: the old dispensation

Paul Mackin mackin.paul at verizon.net
Mon Nov 14 09:02:24 CST 2011


On 11/14/2011 9:17 AM, David Morris wrote:
> I think in this context the old dispensation would have been
> Rathenau's living existence, as opposed to "years into a new otherside
> existence."

Yes, isn't it a take off on Divine Providence--what Christians have 
instead of Fate.

It operates under a different set of rules and regulations on one side 
than on the other.
>>> 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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