{"id":2236,"date":"2012-01-06T11:03:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T11:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2012-01-06T11:03:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T11:03:38","slug":"the-repentance-of-judah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2236","title":{"rendered":"The Repentance of Judah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIn two occasions, one admitting the righteousness of Tamar (Gen 38:26), and the other a selfless desire to sacrifice for his brother Benjamin (Gen 44:33).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSome repent out of selfish desires: to gain acceptance, to be counted as virtuous as others, to be ahead of others in the 'competition' of righteousness, to be at peace with their guilt, etc.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA true repent mortifies one's own body of sins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In two occasions, one admitting the righteousness of Tamar (Gen 38:26), and the other a selfless desire to sacrifice for his brother Benjamin (Gen 44:33). Some repent out of selfish desires: to gain acceptance, to be counted as virtuous as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2236\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}