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Line 391: − + − + − The "needle" was the very narrow pedestrian portal in the larger city gate. In order to pass, the camel must lower itself. Similarly, in order to pass the gates of heaven, a man must bow.+
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|<span id="10:25"></span>It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
|<span id="10:25"></span>It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
|It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for an idle miser to enter into the kingdom of God."
|HEY ANDY DON'T MESS UP WITH THE HOLY BIBLE
|Plousios meant the idle rich then; the closest term today would be "idle miser"; the Greek is from ploutos (wealth), from which plutocrat is derived.
|HEY ANDY DON'T MESS UP WITH THE HOLY BIBLE
HEY ANDY DON'T MESS UP WITH THE HOLY BIBLE
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