In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.
The Israelites' slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free.
I really should have been a pharaoh - do you know that?
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind of new form of oppression or suppression or violence or letting loose criminal elements.
He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
The abolition of slavery was driven by the King James Bible. It gave slaves a common language and purpose.
The uprising in Egypt was initiated by the young generation. The uprising achieved two things. One is it made the lives of dictators impossible. Today, if you are looking for a safe job, don't become a dictator.
Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.
The Egyptians have grown in confidence, they've tasted freedom, and there's no way back.