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First a somewhat peripheral question about something that wasn't clear to me: what is the moral to be drawn from the Simon story about "the global nature of the Christian message"? I like your description of the contexts where each of these passages was written (Deut, Isa, Acts), and how the rules would have applied in each situation. I'm still thinking about the exile and exactly how that worked, because in some ways you'd think the exile would have made them even more concerned for being pure. But you are saying that Isaiah was concerned for them as a religious unit since they were no longer a political unit. I think that makes sense.