PETRUS CUNAEUS


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Petrus Cunaeus

If the Apostles and the writers of the gospels were to enjoy a brief stay on earth and return to the company of men, they would be astonished at how many different analyses and approaches were being used to interpret their books, and how many bizarre constructions had been assembled from the trivial notions of the sophists.
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Peter van der Kun. The Bing definition of a sophist is: ”somebody using clever talk to deceive: a deceptive person who offers clever-sounding but flawed arguments or explanations”

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Men whose religion was excessively zealous split themselves into opposing factions, and once divided by a single mistake they disagreed on everything and came to be entirely at odds with one another.
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In Rome … insomuch as the citizen possessed land enough for [300 to farm], [citizens] were confined by Stolo’s Law to 500 acres per citizen.
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Peter van der Kun. The Roman society had developed huge inequalities in the wealth of its citizens. Land was the measure of wealth as the value was produced by the farming of it. In an agrarian reform, the holdings of any one citizen was limited to 500 acres. In effect the Romans created a maximum of wealth. To the owners of the large tracts of land, this was a redistribution of wealth.

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The [ancient] Jews fought one another over their conflicting interpretations of their Holy Book, and their disagreements about doctrine and matters of ritual
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Petrus Cunaeus
  • Born: December 2, 1638
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Petrus Cunaeus was the pen name of the Dutch Christian scholar Peter van der Kun. His book The Hebrew Republic is considered "the most powerful statement of republican theory in the early years of the Dutch Republic."