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Exilic

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ex·ile  (gzl, ksl)
n.
1.
a. Enforced removal from one's native country.
b. Self-imposed absence from one's country.
2. The condition or a period of living away from one's native country.
3. One who lives away from one's native country, whether because of expulsion or voluntary absence.
tr.v. ex·iled, ex·il·ing, ex·iles
To send into exile; banish. See Synonyms at banish.

[Middle English exil, from Old French, from Latin exilium, from exul, exsul, exiled person, wanderer.]

ex·ilic (g-zlk, k-sl-), ex·ilian (g-zlyn, -zl-n, k-slyn, -sl-n) adj.
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Adj.1.exilic - of or relating to a period of exile (especially the exile of the Jews known as the Babylonian Captivity)


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Finally, after the Lord God identifies himself as exilic Isaiah's YHWH, who is both "beginning" and "end" (Isa 44:6; 48:12), form follows content, and the passage ends as it began, "who is and who was and who is to come.
This exilic critique of kings is also, in turn, part of the great biblical message affirming human equality and dignity, and it speaks a powerful egalitarian word to any age.
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