(Ron) The Evolution of Emphasis (was Isaiah 42:8)]]
Brian Dean bridean@worldnet.att.net
Tue, 01 Sep 1998 01:49:06 -0400 (00904646946, 35EB8AD1.B4FBC7A3@worldnet.att.net)
> >> HELEN:
> >> Jan, are you suggesting to Catholic Ron that when his celibate pope
> reads S
> >> of S 7:2 he might actually believe that God thinks that the pope's
> vagina is
> >> "a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine"? Of course, it has to be
> the
> >> pope's navel being described, you blasphemer. I think the Catholic
> >> explanation of this biblical book is a obvious crock. By the way,
> this verse
> >> gives the Jewish apologists fits as well. Oral sex is a no-no in
> modern
> >> Judaism. However, I think that the explanation that this is a
> reference to
> >> just that forbidden act is the most reasonable. Would any Christian
> on the
> >> list like to attempt to explain this book and this verse?
> >> Helen
> >> hhiwater@bright.net
> >
> >
> >
> >
> RON
> Most commentators that I have read interpret the navel as representing
> Jerusalem as the center of the world. I don't know what the Hebrew word
> translated as "navel" is. Is there any reason, besides the
> sensationalism of the thought, to interpret it differently?
>
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