Every time I read certain nonfiction work, with varying names, more or less The Holy Bible, there is an interesting pun in Acts chapter 5. it the part where the Sanhedrin is holding a hullaboo over the apostles, what do the Priests say? not: "you guys get on are nerves" which frankly would probably save them a lot of talk, but: "you guys are trying to cover us with this man's(aka:Jesus) blood." aha! got the pun? the apostles are sitting around Solomon's lemonade, er columnade, (or is it portico? does it really matter?) and preaching to the people, when the Sanhedrin guys appear and try to mess everything up. the priests are saying: "stop trying make us feel guilty" but how do they say it? cover us with Jesus's blood, which is pretty funny, seeing as they're trying to convert every body to Christianity. if one says that everything God planned every thing from start to finish, which then mean that every pun and joke, every rhyme and song was conceived in His imagination, then yes. kind of strange, that one of the many ways to convey meanings, one would be chosen by God so that two thousand years later an insignificant book elf would look at it and wonder.
God is so good at puns. In Isaiah 40
ReplyDelete"Tell Israel that her hard work has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the Lords hand double for all her sins"
the plain meaning, that God has disciplined her (with his hand) double.
OR (and I think its more obvious in the Hebrew)
that she has received, from(as in the midst of) the Lord's hand double (both) for all her sins.
That is, both of the Lord's hands, in the midst of them, she has received, something, something to do wti her sin being paid for. I think of the Stigmata, in His hands, and that is how it is paid for (the sin) and that she receives from both bleeding hands, the blood to pay for the sin....