He has now given me power over it
God plays a varying role in Mary's narrative (savior from captivity but also captor in his divine will; it's interesting to think about Mary's brief acknowledgements of her own autonomy instead of God's)
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Iunderstood something of Lot's wife's temptation, when she looked back
Context here: https://www.christianity.com/wiki/people/who-was-lot-s-wife-why-was-she-turned-into-a-pillar-of-salt.html , reminds me of Orpheus and Eurydice
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By theRivers of Babylon, there we sate down: yea, we wept when we remembered Zion
Further context: https://enduringword.com/bible-commentary/psalm-137/
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I havethought since of the wonderful goodness of God to me in preserving me in the use of my reasonand senses in that distressed time, that I did not use wicked and violent means to end my ownmiserable life.
Mary seems to waffle back and forth on whether or not dying would be a noble solution; for her sister, it's God's mercy that she dies, but for herself, it's because of God's mercy that she must live
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yet the Lord by His almighty power
Thinking about religion as a form of captivity, or at least a relationship with an imbalance of power - the subject is captive to a divine will
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promising themmoney (as they told me) but they would not hearken to him but knocked him in head, andstripped him naked, and split open his bowels
As per one of the other annotations made in this section, I am interested in Mary's explicit descriptions of violence while also keeping in mind the similarly violent conditions that colonial settlers subjected Native Americans to. It would be nice to read a text from the perspective of a Native American person on the kinds of violence they experienced at the hands of white people. I am also interested in Mary's mention of the settler trying to bargain for his life with money, and the Native Americans' disinterest in money in pursuit of seemingly(?) senseless (at least from this outset) bloodshed.
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