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1 | "throwing stones" or "making love"? | Eccl 3:5 | DocTrinsograce | 196210 | ||
Dear JRM, (I like your profile!) This expression "cover his feet" is called an idiom. Although dropping makes sense with regard to pants -- the artist in you must have inserted "paints" :-) -- but considering the manner of dress at the time, I've never quite been able to conceive it. Of course, this might be because leggings are so much more common to my occidental cultural experience. John Gill politely comments regarding this idiom that "as the Eastern people wore long and loose garments, when they sat down on such an occasion, their feet were covered with them; or they purposely gathered them about their feet to cover them, and so this became a modest expression for this work of nature." However, I note that others consider the expression to be more aptly interpreted as sleeping -- Albert Barnes and Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, for instance, render it this way. I do not find scholarly agreement with regard to Peterson's implication that Ecclesiastes 3:5 is an idiomatic euphemism for procreation. Of course, that doesn't mean he isn't correct. However, paraphrases are generally produced by folks with presuppositions that differ fundamentally from those who employ grammatico-historical methods. In Him, Doc PS Sometime it would be interesting to have a set of posts regarding special revelation (Scripture) relative to its proper manifestation in artistic expression. |
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2 | "throwing stones" or "making love"? | Eccl 3:5 | Just Read Mark | 196278 | ||
Hi Doc. Thanks for adding some scholarly perspective. Maybe I'll meet Eugene some day, and ask him a few questions. Here's my crazy link between Eugene and the real text: if the "stones" were understood as seeds, as in "the seed of Abraham", then his rendering would be reasonable. Your art discussion topic looks good. Art does not have authority like scripture --- but we do live by story. If Christians back out of the task, people will live by CSI. (Lord, have mercy.) I see part of our world-shaping task (for God gives us responsibility to shape this world, as an echo of His creative power)as an artistic one. One of my favorite verses is when Joseph says "Interpretations belong to the Lord." |
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