Mark 8:33 and Spartans

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Giuseppe
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Mark 8:33 and Spartans

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33 But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. “Get behind me, Satan!” he said. “You do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”

(Mark 8:33)

These men, as the Athenians say, established themselves at Delphi and bribed the Pythian priestess to bid any Spartans who should come to inquire of her on a private or a public account to set Athens free. [2] Then the Lacedaemonians, when the same command was ever revealed to them, sent Anchimolius the son of Aster, a citizen of repute, to drive out the sons of Pisistratus with an army despite the fact that the Pisistratidae were their close friends, for the god's will weighed with them more than the will of man.

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/tex ... inal#note1


The Spartans obeyed a falsely divine oracle, while Peter disobeyed a truely divine oracle.
Nihil enim in speciem fallacius est quam prava religio. -Liv. xxxix. 16.
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