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in today’s Gospel passage Jesus speaks of the time when the plan of God
will be fulfilled. </b></span>Some philosophies defend a circular or cyclical
understanding of time. They hold that time just continually circles back
on itself, repeating like the cycles of the seasons. <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>The modern
philosopher Nietzsche spoke of the "eternal return of the same." That’s a
mythic consciousness, and it can be found all over the world.</b></span></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>But
the Jews had a very different sense of time, what we might call
"linear." They felt that time was moving somewhere, that it had, under
God’s direction, a purpose.<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> The past was </span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">not </span>simply there to be repeated
endlessly; </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>rather, the past was a preparation for a definitive future.
It was an anticipation of what God would do, what God was going to
accomplish.</b></span></span></b></b></b></b></b></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br> <table style="border-top:1px solid #d3d4de">
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