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On Choseness

The Israelites may assume that, as God's elect, they are immune to punishment and entitled to a bounty of privileges. But God is no patron; on the contrary, with great privilege, comes great condemnation. Arthur Hertzberg famously said that “Choseness is the inescapable discomfort caused by consciousness.”
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