10-01-2003, 01:39 AM
Shlama Akhi Thadman
Bang! Second round...
NB. All quotes are from KJV (I don???t like it very much, but I see its one of the most used here).
FEET > WAY/PATH = symbol of life and its orientation to good/evil, a very common symbolic image in the Bible, especially in poetic/prophetic books or passages.
The other issue involved is the SYNEQDOCHE, this rhetoric or poetic figure ???not exclusively Semitic??? which means ???to take one part for the whole thing???: FEET = THE WHOLE PERSON.
Exs: Ps 6:2 (my bones = Myself); Ps 12:22; 63:11 (lying lips/mouth = lying people). In our case, FEET can also refer to PEOPLE who [with tendency to] shed blood or doing wrong things (Footsoldiers? Sure, they too, among others! <!-- s
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SLIPPING OR MISCONTROLED FEETS (or FOOT) as symbol of temptation or inclination to evil, or better, the PERSON tempted to malevolence. Some Exs:
Sam 22:37 ???Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.???
Job 12:5 ???He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease???.
Ps 17:5 ???Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not???.
Ps 18:36 (almost the same). Others: Ps 56:14; 65:9;73:2; 94:18;116:8; 121:3; Jer 13:16; 14:10; Prov 25:19...
Somebody who succeed in avoiding to fall down: Ps 119:101 ???I have refrained my feet from every evil way...???. Also: Job 23:11; Ps 26:12 (foot); Advice to keep away the foot (= SELF) from evil path: 1:5; 4:27; Eccl 4:7...
Feet in connection with ???blood??? =
Ps 58:10 ???The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash HIS FEET IN THE BLOOD of the wicked???. Parallelism: rejoice in seeing vengeance/ wash the feet in blood)
And this is EXACTLY THE SAME of Is 59:7 quoted in the discussed text of Rom 3:15:
Prov 1:16 ???For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood???.
??d-??pHl wrhmyw wcry vrl ??ylgr yk
About ???speedy feet???, here we have a similar to the last one, with the same verb:
Here, in a nice parallelism (interior: heart = motivations/ exterior: feet=behavior, actions)
Proverbs 6:18 ???An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, FEET THAT BE SWIFT IN RUNNING TO MISCHIEF???
hvrl ??wrl twrhmm ??ylgr ??w' twbHFxm Hrx bl
Another ???speedy feet??? in association with sin, this time with the verb ??' :
Prov 19:2 ???Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth???.( 'Xwx ??ylgrb ??'w ).
Also, in singular (parallelism I = my foot):
Job 31:5 ???If I have walked with vanity, or if MY FOOT HATH HASTED (Hxt) TO DECEIT???
ylgr hmrm lv Hxtw 'wH ??v ytklh ??'
A menace from an ???awful foot??? = wicked PERSON:
Ps 36:11 Let not the FOOT OF PRIDE (h'wg lgr) come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
Finally, a ???demonstratio ab absurdum:???
Romans 10:15 ???And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the FEET of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!??? This is a quote of Is 52:7.
??wlH vymHm rWbm ylgr ??yrhh lv hm
I wonder: Why the FEET? I suppose that not feet, but MOUTH or LIPS should be more appropriate to be called ???beautiful??? in relationship with the messengers... Do they preach with their feet? Or simply, FEET = PREACHER HIMSELF? Or perhaps somebody might think that there???s a mistranslation here also?
Common, Akhi Steve, don???t waste your bullets in this: there are hundreds (or thousands?) topics waiting for your ???speedy??? and sharp mind!
FRATERNALLY,
Ab. Valentin
Bang! Second round...
NB. All quotes are from KJV (I don???t like it very much, but I see its one of the most used here).
FEET > WAY/PATH = symbol of life and its orientation to good/evil, a very common symbolic image in the Bible, especially in poetic/prophetic books or passages.
The other issue involved is the SYNEQDOCHE, this rhetoric or poetic figure ???not exclusively Semitic??? which means ???to take one part for the whole thing???: FEET = THE WHOLE PERSON.
Exs: Ps 6:2 (my bones = Myself); Ps 12:22; 63:11 (lying lips/mouth = lying people). In our case, FEET can also refer to PEOPLE who [with tendency to] shed blood or doing wrong things (Footsoldiers? Sure, they too, among others! <!-- s
--><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s --> ).SLIPPING OR MISCONTROLED FEETS (or FOOT) as symbol of temptation or inclination to evil, or better, the PERSON tempted to malevolence. Some Exs:
Sam 22:37 ???Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.???
Job 12:5 ???He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease???.
Ps 17:5 ???Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not???.
Ps 18:36 (almost the same). Others: Ps 56:14; 65:9;73:2; 94:18;116:8; 121:3; Jer 13:16; 14:10; Prov 25:19...
Somebody who succeed in avoiding to fall down: Ps 119:101 ???I have refrained my feet from every evil way...???. Also: Job 23:11; Ps 26:12 (foot); Advice to keep away the foot (= SELF) from evil path: 1:5; 4:27; Eccl 4:7...
Feet in connection with ???blood??? =
Ps 58:10 ???The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash HIS FEET IN THE BLOOD of the wicked???. Parallelism: rejoice in seeing vengeance/ wash the feet in blood)
And this is EXACTLY THE SAME of Is 59:7 quoted in the discussed text of Rom 3:15:
Prov 1:16 ???For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood???.
??d-??pHl wrhmyw wcry vrl ??ylgr yk
About ???speedy feet???, here we have a similar to the last one, with the same verb:
Here, in a nice parallelism (interior: heart = motivations/ exterior: feet=behavior, actions)
Proverbs 6:18 ???An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, FEET THAT BE SWIFT IN RUNNING TO MISCHIEF???
hvrl ??wrl twrhmm ??ylgr ??w' twbHFxm Hrx bl
Another ???speedy feet??? in association with sin, this time with the verb ??' :
Prov 19:2 ???Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth???.( 'Xwx ??ylgrb ??'w ).
Also, in singular (parallelism I = my foot):
Job 31:5 ???If I have walked with vanity, or if MY FOOT HATH HASTED (Hxt) TO DECEIT???
ylgr hmrm lv Hxtw 'wH ??v ytklh ??'
A menace from an ???awful foot??? = wicked PERSON:
Ps 36:11 Let not the FOOT OF PRIDE (h'wg lgr) come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
Finally, a ???demonstratio ab absurdum:???
Romans 10:15 ???And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the FEET of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!??? This is a quote of Is 52:7.
??wlH vymHm rWbm ylgr ??yrhh lv hm
I wonder: Why the FEET? I suppose that not feet, but MOUTH or LIPS should be more appropriate to be called ???beautiful??? in relationship with the messengers... Do they preach with their feet? Or simply, FEET = PREACHER HIMSELF? Or perhaps somebody might think that there???s a mistranslation here also?
Common, Akhi Steve, don???t waste your bullets in this: there are hundreds (or thousands?) topics waiting for your ???speedy??? and sharp mind!
FRATERNALLY,
Ab. Valentin