From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Sun Dec 03 2000 - 21:13:31 MST
> I recall something about the "4 winds" but don't recall ever reading
> anything about 4 corners (at least not in the KJV), and I think
something
> like that would have stuck with me. Anybody know whether there is
really
> such a ref in the good book?
>
> -Zero
Revelation Chapter 7, Verse 1:
"And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of
the earth... "
Ron H wrote,
> It is something to the effect about there being angels at the four
> corners of the Earth. I think today you will find that is generally
> interpreted as meaning the entire earth is watched over.
> You have to be a little careful about the change in language used up
to
> four thousand years ago and the way it is used today.
Yes, that's right. Too bad the literalist Amish haven't learned this.
(According to the TV documentary I saw, Amish priests teach children that
the Earth is flat.) It's also too bad the Amish children don't get to
learn about astronomy in school, and that they don't get to go beyond the
8th grade.
Stay hungry,
--J. R.
3M TA3
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the
point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
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