Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 11:52:33 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@hub.freebsd.org> To: des@ofug.org Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com, bright@wintelcom.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fortune candidate from #FreeBSD on EFNet Message-ID: <20001112195233.1FE9437B479@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <xzpwveeqpx8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> (message from Dag-Erling Smorgrav on 08 Nov 2000 19:28:19 %2B0100)
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> > "Truly, O God of Israel, our Savior, you work in strange and > mysterious ways." -- Isaiah 45:15 this is just wrong. the sentence comes from the middle of a prophecy that will be / was fulfulled when Sennacherib and his army were destroyed outside of Jerusalem. Isiah is returning to the theme of 43:1-4 etc 45:14 Thus said God: The toil of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush and the Sabeans, men of stature, will pass to you and will become yours; they will follow after you and pass in chains. They will prostrate themselves before you; they will pray before you: 'Only with you [Jerusalem] is God, and there is none other, except for God'. [yes the first verse really is that long] 45:15 'Indeed, You are a God Who conceals Himself, the God of Israel is the Savior!' Where did you version come from? Truly, the translator worked in strange and mysterious ways! Mine is from the original language which I read, write and speak fluently. > > "God's ways are as hard to discern as the pathways of the wind, > and as mysterious as a tiny baby being formed in a mother's > womb." -- Ecclesiastes 11:5 11:4 "One who watches the wind will never sow, and one who keeps his eyes on the clouds will never reap." 11:5 "Just as you do not know the way of the wind, nor the bones [nature of the embryo] in a pregnant stomach, so can you never know the work of God who makes everything." 11:6 "In the morning sow your seed and in the evening be not idle, for you can not know which will succeed--this or that--or whether both are equally good." nonetheless, the others are fine for english epigrams....they just aint Text. jmb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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