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1 Bles | it in order to subdue the earth3. From the beginning therefore
2 Bles | occupying his existence on earth. Thus work bears a particular
3 1, 1 | toil of human existence on earth.~Work is one of these aspects,
4 1, 2 | old as man and his life on earth. Nevertheless, the general
5 1, 2 | efforts to build justice on earth, not concealing thereby
6 2, 4 | dimension of man's existence on earth. She is confirmed in this
7 2, 4 | dimension of human existence on earth. An analysis of these texts
8 2, 4 | and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it"10, even though
9 2, 4 | subdue, to dominate, the earth. In carrying out this mandate,
10 2, 4 | dominion by man over "the earth", and in its turn it confirms
11 2, 4 | clear that the term "the earth" of which the biblical text
12 2, 4 | The expression "subdue the earth" has an immense range. It
13 2, 4 | all the resources that the earth (and indirectly the visible
14 2, 4 | and more the master of the earth, and as he confirms his
15 2, 4 | whereby man "subdues the earth" through his work.~
16 2, 5 | process of "subduing the earth" throw light upon human
17 2, 5 | man's dominion over the earth is achieved in and by means
18 2, 5 | civilization. Man dominates the earth by the very fact of domesticating
19 2, 5 | natural resources from the earth and the seas. But man "subdues
20 2, 5 | seas. But man "subdues the earth" much more when he begins
21 2, 5 | always consist in linking the earth's riches - whether nature'
22 2, 5 | biblical words "subdue the earth" addressed to man from the
23 2, 6 | that he is to subdue the earth, we must concentrate our
24 2, 6 | significance.~Man has to subdue the earth and dominate it, because
25 2, 6 | the human race subdue the earth, work corresponds to this
26 2, 6 | the years of his life on earth to manual work at the carpenter'
27 2, 7 | man's "dominion" over the earth goes to the very heart of
28 2, 9 | biblical calling to "subdue the earth"14, in which is expressed
29 2, 9 | world, by "subjecting" the earth. Toil is something that
30 2, 10 | process of "subduing the earth", that is to say work, is
31 3, 12 | that man is to subdue the earth, we know that these words
32 3, 12 | instruments for cultivating the earth but also, through adequate
33 4, 21 | person who cultivates the earth by toiling in the fields.
34 4, 21 | eloquently "subdues" the earth he has received as a gift
35 5, 25 | to subject to himself the earth and all that it contains,
36 5, 25 | be wonderful in all the earth"27. ~The word of God's revelation
37 5, 27 | the way of human life on earth and constitutes an announcement
38 5, 27 | it"83. There is no one on earth who could not apply these
39 5, 27 | burdened man's history on earth84. It also contains the
40 5, 27 | authority in heaven and on earth, Christ is nòw at work in
41 5, 27 | and to render the whole earth submissive to this goal"87. ~
42 5, 27 | new heavens and the new earth"88 in which man and the
43 5, 27 | small part of that "new earth" where justice dwells89?
44 5, 27 | the expectation of a new earth must not weaken but rather
45 5, 27 | freedom" must increase on earth91. Let the Christian who
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