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Summary
- Lincoln is not in the Bible. It comes from the English city, Roman Lindum Colonia — a Brittonic word for a pool plus the Latin for a settlement of veterans.
- Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural, delivered 4 March 1865 a month before he was killed, runs to about seven hundred words and is roughly a quarter about God.
- Its argument is a refusal: both sides read the same Bible and pray to the same God, the prayers of both could not be answered, and the Almighty has his own purposes.
- He quotes Matthew 18:7 on offences and Psalm 19:9 to say that a verdict against his own country would be just.
- That is nearer to Joshua 5:13-14, where the commander of the Lord’s army answers “Neither,” than to any campaign.
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Sources: the Roman name Lindum Colonia and its Brittonic and Latin elements are standard place-name etymology. Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, 4 March 1865, is quoted from the text as delivered; it cites Matthew 18:7, Matthew 7:1 and Psalm 19:9. Other Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (Joshua 5:13-14; Psalm 19:9; Matthew 18:7).
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