tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975820119835559954.post8654298304430853220..comments2008-10-20T13:14:08.403-07:00seeking echohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07751362728185120933seekingecho@gmail.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975820119835559954.post-69526781083026065102008-10-20T13:14:00.000-07:002008-10-20T13:14:00.000-07:00maybe Elisha should have said "Wow! Me? Really??" first - perhaps Elijah was suggesting that he should have prayed first<BR/><BR/>as for the original story, being abrupt suggests leaving out something- omiting something non-essential; here the speaker is adding too much to his point, as if the idea itself is not enough<BR/>wisdom doesn't need to shout<BR/>Jesus with the woman about to be stoned didnt call anyone namesmichaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975820119835559954.post-28937951916710089982008-10-20T11:39:00.000-07:002008-10-20T11:39:00.000-07:00True, there's no point being habitually abrupt.<BR/>But in the old story Xenophon becomes Socrates' friend.<BR/><BR/>Even Elijah comes across a little abrupt:<BR/><BR/>"So he departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, while he was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. And Elijah passed over to him and threw his mantle on him.<BR/>He left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, "Please let me kiss my father and my mother, then I will follow you." And he said to him, "Go back again, for what have I done to you?"<BR/>So he returned from following him, and took the pair of oxen and sacrificed them and boiled their flesh with the implements of the oxen, and gave it to the people and they ate. Then he arose and followed Elijah and served him."<BR/><BR/>(something must be a little lost here - what do you make of that?)seeking echohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07751362728185120933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975820119835559954.post-34354384370233703552008-10-17T13:25:00.000-07:002008-10-17T13:25:00.000-07:00and you dont even know where Tower records is anymore<BR/>seriously though, isnt this kind of exposition very flawed?<BR/>is it not detrimental to the search for wisdom that the question is framed in this way?<BR/>does a person who cherishes wisdom have so little care for the person he seeks to instruct?<BR/>the spirit comes quietly and with power<BR/>Elijah in the cave<BR/>gentleness is the face of the spiritmichaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975820119835559954.post-89507859143011282682008-08-13T13:27:00.000-07:002008-08-13T13:27:00.000-07:00How strange that you have written about Paul. I've been thinking about him lately and have written somthing about him in a sermon I'm preparing.Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14343643387576533616noreply@blogger.com