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>It seems to me there's a very similar theme in the Gospels. In Matthew 27.35:
>"And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots, that it might
>be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, they parted my garments among
>them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots."
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>In John 19.24, "They said therefore among themselves Let us not rend it, but
>cast lots for it, whose it shall be, that the scripture might be fulfilled
>which saith, They parted his rainment among them and for my vesture did they
>cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.
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>I'm afraid I can't agree that this is anything to do with the case.
Fulfilment of the scriptures is a constant theme of Matthew, and indeed of
John and all the New Testament writers. They nowhere suggest that this
absolves the perpetrators from
guilt. Cf Matthew 27:25 "His blood be on us and on our children". Medieval
theologians were firmly rooted in the Bible - I see no truth in your suggestion
that they were, on the whole, more interested in St Augustine. Abelard's
particular
ethical emphasis arises from his reading of the Stoics, rather than from any
closer following of the Bible than anyone else.
And my name is not Bill Oriens.
Elasticus.
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