Re: 2nd Kings 2:23 - A Story of God's Love (Score: 1)
by Divinus on Monday, April 21 @ 13:31:31 PDT
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Cursed them. This curse, which was followed by so visible a judgment of God, was not the effect of passion, or of a desire of revenging himself; but of zeal for religion, which was insulted by these boys, in the person of the prophet, and of a divine inspiration; God being determined to punish in this manner the inhabitants of Bethel, (the chief seat of the calf-worship) who had trained up their children in a prejudice against the true religion and its ministers. (Challoner) --- The boys themselves were not so little as not to be aware of the insult they were offering to a minister of the God of Juda; and probably they acted thus out of hatred to him, at the instigation of their idolatrous parents. (Sanctius) (Calmet) --- Lord. He called on him (Menochius) to revenge his own cause, (Haydock) "that the people might learn to take care of their souls, by the fear of death." (St. Augustine) (Du Hamel)



Bald-head. It is not know whether Eliseus was really bald, or only wore his hair short, like the priests of the Lord, and the monks at present. It may also be a term of reproach, of which the emperors Julius Cęsar, Domitian, and Otho, were very sensible. Cęsar wore a crown of laurel, and Otho a sort of false hair, to hide this deformity. (Suetonius) Quod summum formę decus est, periere capilli. (Petronius) (Calmet)



Re: 2nd Kings 2:23 - A Story of God's Love (Score: 1)
by Robocoastie on Sunday, June 08 @ 01:27:22 PDT
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Good points Reg. I had to find enough of these passages myself simply by reading the bible and not "bible study guides" before the magnitude of these actions and contradictions to church theology could sink in.

Likewise when I point them out to xians I get the same blank look on their face and answer "so what?" from them that I used to give. From a theologian however the answer is (as I got from a local pastor) along the lines that in those days god had to deal harshly with the people because of how much worse they were due to Christs sacrifice not having occurred yet. (never mind Malachi 3:6 "I am the LORD I change not").



Re: 2nd Kings 2:23 - A Story of God's Love (Score: 1)
by jinxmchue on Tuesday, March 31 @ 08:23:27 PDT
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It's interesting that you look up and use the word "baqa" from the Hebrew, but not the word "na'ar," which is erroneously translated as "children" in KJV. In fact, "na'ar" is used elsewhere in the Old Testament in relation to Joseph when he was near or at 30 years of age and Joshua when he was near 50!