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The received "well-defined exercise of authority" is the climactic vindication of Jesus' humiliation (cf. Philippians 2:5–11) and marks a turning point in the redemptive history that the "Messiah's Kingdom" or Jesus' "king-dominion" has risen up in new power: the exercise of Jesus' "divine and saving authority".
Édouard Manet, Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers, c. 1865. After his condemnation by Pontius Pilate, Jesus was flogged and mocked by Roman soldiers.They clothed him with a "purple" or "scarlet" (Matthew 27:28) robe symbolizing a royal gown since purple was a royal color, put a crown of thorns on his head symbolizing a royal crown, and put a staff in his hand symbolizing a scepter.
[53] Through the prophets, God calls Israel and all nations to turn to him, the one and only God: "Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other. . . . To me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
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"Thou shalt not take the name of the L ORD thy God in vain" (KJV; also "You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God" and variants, Biblical Hebrew: לֹא תִשָּׂא אֶת-שֵׁם-יהוה אֱלֹהֶיךָ לַשָּׁוְא, romanized: Lōʾ t̲iśśāʾ ʾet̲-šēm-YHWH ʾĕlōhēḵā laššāwəʾ ) is the second or third (depending on numbering) of God's ...
The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him: Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness. But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
In other contexts it is used when Jesus claimed that "all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth" (Matthew 28:18), or similarly "power over all flesh" , and in The Book of Revelation in reference to the ten kings represented by the horns of the Beast that they "shall give their power and strength unto the beast". [4]
[17] W.H. Stevenson calls them "a very early statement of fundamental opinions [Blake] held all his life." [ 59 ] As an example of how Blake returned to the specific themes of All Religions , in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790), he writes "the Poetic Genius was the first principle and all the others merely derivative" (12:22–24).