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Acts 17:5 But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people. The word for envy in the Greek in this passage is zeloo (dzay-lo'-o) To have warmth of feeling for or against:--affect, covet (earnestly), (have) desire, (move with) envy, be jealous over, (be) zealous(-ly affect) Kind of a strange reaction here. Generally, when people envy it is because we want something and can't have it, or want something better than what we have, or we want more of something that we do have. It is odd to not want something but then not want others to have it, too. For example, I want an I-Phone but am locked in a stupid contract with Verizon (that I entered into under with false information from the long-gone Verizon rep, but now can't extricate myself from until June 2010 without paying a penalty...so I

I have been reading on Facebook that a lot of my friends have come down with colds. Recently, I have been fighting back against the onset of a cold like beating back barbarians at the gates. As a disclaimer, I am no doctor. I don't even play one on TV (that was about the stupidest commercial ever...if you do play a doctor on TV are you suggesting credibility?) Sometimes I catch myself saying after I have gotten a cold, "Man, I hate getting sick." I hear other says it too. That is a strange statement...like anyone actually enjoys getting sick with the hacking and wheezing, shakes and chills, and the coughing up of phlegm. Gee, what isn't there to like? It would kind of be like looking forward to going to the dentist to experience the drilling of one's teeth... could I have a root canal too? PLLEEAAASE? like a kid asking for second helpings. Not that I have much of an issue with cavities...I only have one cavity despite my advanced age. So, going to the dentis