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Romans 8:38-39
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The list names ranks of spiritual powers and two astrological terms: height and depth, hypsoma and bathos, are technical words for a planet's exaltation and its opposite. Paul is denying that the fates written in the heavens can hold.
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TextFor I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 1 Reference Scheme Translation
TranslationThe Holy Bible, American Standard Version 1 TranslatorAmerican Revision Committee 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names The Fates directly: "Paul is denying that the fates written in the heavens can hold."
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