‘Negative Thinking’ about Food and Wine? (5:14-15)
Descartes said, “I think; therefore I am.” The philosophic evolutionist reverses and negatives the epigram. He says, “I am not; therefore I cannot think.”
G. K. Chesterton
‘Negative Thinking’ about Houses and Lands? (5:16)
Nehemiah 5:16 ESV
I also persevered in the work on this wall, and we acquired no land, and all my servants were gathered there for the work.