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DENARII. An ancient general term for any sort of pecunia numerata, or ready money. The French use the word denier in the same sense: payer de ses propres deniers. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Perhaps he saw him many years in the future: worried sick about his investments in cedars of Lebanon lumber; disappointed with his new, lavish summer home on the Dead Sea; anxious about the fortune he's hidden over in no-tax Samaria, reluctant even to pick up a stray denarius off the street lest he lose his financial focus; and dreading the day when he'll have to leave his hard-won accumulation to a raft of ungrateful relatives who never really knew him because he didn't have the time. While equality of payment (one denarius to all laborers) clearly prompted resentment (the complaint, "you have made them equal [isous] to us," actually concerns unfair treatment), the point of the story can hardly be considered an affirmation of social or economic equality within the Jesus movment or a demonstration of Jesus' egalitarianism. |
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