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9 entries tagged stewardship · 2 scrolls · 7 terms.
The leverage moved from typing prompts to designing the system that prompts. Here is what an agentic loop actually is, the test for whether you need one, the parts to build it from, and the discipline that keeps it from quietly draining you.
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From the Hebrew root arav, to pledge oneself as surety for another's debt, the 'striking of hands' that makes the guarantor personally answerable if the borrower fails.
From the classical Greek αὐτουργία, the workman's discipline of doing the work with his own hands, the craft that travels because it is inside the workman, not in his tools.
The Greek word for diligent, sustained, attentive care, used by the Stoics for the discipline of the self and by the New Testament for the stewardship of a household or a flock, especially in the absence of the one who entrusted the charge.
Greek for 'master of the house,' the householder in Jesus' parables who entrusts his estate and its work to servants, goes away, and returns to reckon its true condition.
Greek for household management; the New Testament word for stewardship of what is held in trust, where the steward is judged not by how much he amassed but by how faithfully he accounted for what was given.
The Hebrew word for the pattern or model a builder is shown and must build to: the divine blueprint received rather than invented, most famously the design of the tabernacle shown to Moses on the mountain.
The Greek word for a unit of weight and the largest unit of currency in the ancient Mediterranean, used in the Parable of the Talents to name the capability a master entrusts to a steward for return.