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" Why the prophet's gaze should have focused on these particular nations is unclear ," says Daniel Block in a recent study of Ezekiel 25-48, but suggests that their remoteness and reputation for violence and mystery " made Gog and his confederates perfect symbols of the archetypal enemy, rising against God and his people.
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Why, for example, should the ancients have supposed the diurnal rotation of the heavens to be elliptical??
Why should CTA regular riders subsidize reduced transportation for old people any more than the people who drive their own cars or walk to work should??
Why should the `` practical adhesion '' of a coating as assessed by a knife method change, initially increasing rather rapidly and then decreasing stepwise to very low values as the knife is forced through a coating of increasing thickness??
Why should I go over at midnight to check on Francie, when her parents didn't care enough to leave a party??
Why this should have happened is, to me, the most profound mystery facing modern biology " Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene.
The second line should confuse the reader, raising the question " Why would a Jew or infidel adore a cross?
Why and have
And Mr. Skyros didn't like Angie, but what with Prettyman and three of his boys inside, and not likely to come out -- And Angie such a valuable salesman, Prettyman said -- All the nuisance and danger of getting in touch with practically a whole new bunch of boys -- Why did everything have to happen at once??
Well, most of our fears may be unfounded, but after you discover that fact, you have something else to worry about: Why then do we have these fears??
As a young man he produced a manuscript titled " Why I have discarded Evolution ", causing some scholars to describe him as a devout Methodist Episcopalian, who was impressed with fundamentalism, and perhaps supportive of creationism.
Why Shakespeare's Banquo is so different from the character described by Holinshed and Boece is not known, though critics have proposed several possible explanations.
" The prophet Nathan confronts David, saying: " Why have you despised the word of God, to do what is evil in his sight?
" Orwell stated in " Why I Write " ( 1946 ): " Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it.
" He is also often asked why he writes such terrifying stories and he answers with another question: " Why do you assume I have a choice?
Upon seeing the spirit of Samuel Saul fell with his face to the ground and Samuel asked Saul " Why have you disquieted me, to bring me up?
In the last panel, Charlie Brown cries to the heavens, " Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher?
Frank Capra's seven-film series Why We Fight is said to have been directly inspired by and America's response to Triumph of the Will.
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