The devil within him was not prepared for that | |
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Hence he was left wonderstruck, unable to get out of the darkness of self-adoration to the light of Truth | He remained in prison for ten days, after which the king decided to have him burnt alive |
In the Talmudic version it is said that the father of Abraham occupied the highest office in Nimrod's government.
5When Abraham said, "My Lord is He Who gives life and causes death," he answered, "I give life and cause death | 2 Polytheists tend to divide godhead into two categories |
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Nimrod did not claim for himself that he held the reins of the entire realm of causation in his hands; he claimed rather that he was the absolute sovereign of Chaldaea and its inhabitants, that in his realm his word was law, that there was no authority superior to his own to which he was answerable | He did not deny the existence of God, and he did not deny that He was the creator of the heavens and the earth, and that He alone governed the entire universe |
According to the Talmud, Abraham was interned in prison on the orders of this king.
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