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once again for the second part of our treatment of the relationship

between the old unity and diversity.

Good to be here.

Yeah, so last time we covered a lot of ground.

Yeah, and I, you know, if you're hearing this for the first time, you might have thought we wandered around a lot, but as as

J.R. Tolkien said of the King Aragorn, not all who wander are lost.

Right. And so when you recognize the diversity of sacred scripture and the unity of God's fatherly plan,

you recognize that the Bible is sort of like a map, but it's describing terrain

that is anything as flat as the pages of scripture.

And so what you need to do as you map it out is you also have to kind of scope it out to see, okay, there are mountains,

there are valleys, there are plains, there are oceans, okay, how do we navigate this well you can see the unity of the

divine economy as the catechism describes it in paragraph 236 being what we describe as God's fatherly planned for each

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