From the chapter "Thursday" on page 118 of The Last Week in a discussion of the Last Supper--hence the reference to "a table"
"If, as God asserts in Leviticus 25:23, "The land is mine; with me you are but aliens and tenants," then of course the food the land produces belongs likewise to God. If we are all tenant farmers and resident aliens on an earth not our ow, then we are also invitees and guests at a table not our own. But, if one lives for a divine justice in a world that belongs to God, one will usually die a violent death from human injustice in a world that refuses recognition of such ownership.
"If, as God asserts in Leviticus 25:23, "The land is mine; with me you are but aliens and tenants," then of course the food the land produces belongs likewise to God. If we are all tenant farmers and resident aliens on an earth not our ow, then we are also invitees and guests at a table not our own. But, if one lives for a divine justice in a world that belongs to God, one will usually die a violent death from human injustice in a world that refuses recognition of such ownership.
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