Read this at the Reformed Covenanter:

John Gill’s Theonomy

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From John Barach:

Harry Potter and the Penny Dreadfuls

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The fact is that the popular modern conception of the individual is derived from Greek thought rather than from the Bible, and may even be regarded as anti-Biblical.  We tend to think of our bodies giving us our individuality and separating us, one from the other.  In the Old Testament it is our flesh–a word for body hardly exists in Hebrew–that binds us to our fellow-men; it is our personal responsibility to God that gives us our individuality.  Since man (’adam) is bound to the ground (’adamah) from which he has been taken, and through it to all who live on the same ground, he cannot help influencing them by his actions.  Abominable conduct causes “the land to sin” (Deu 24:4; cf. Jer 3:1, 9).  That is why drought, pestilence, earthquake, etc., are for the Old Testament the entirely natural punishment of wickedness (cf. Psa 107:33 f.).  If a man dwelt in a polluted land, he could not help sharing in its pollution.  The chief terror of exile was not that the land of exile was outside the control of Jehovah–a view that was probably held by very few–but rather that it was an unclean land (Amos 7:17).

(H.L. Ellison, Ezekiel:  The Man and His Message (Grand Rapids:  Eerdmans, 1956), p. 72, as quoted by R.J. Rushdoony, The Institutes of Biblical Law (The Craig Press, 1973), p. 428.)