Comments on: Chaff and Fire http://catholicbiblestudent.com/2010/02/chaff-and-fire.html A Blog About the Bible, Catholicism and the Habit of Study Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:53:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: kentuckyliz http://catholicbiblestudent.com/2010/02/chaff-and-fire.html/comment-page-1#comment-726 kentuckyliz Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:33:03 +0000 http://catholicbiblestudent.com/cba/?p=172#comment-726 Actually I just stumbled across an interesting footnote about chaff. Baruch 6:42-43 And their [the Chaldean=Babylonian] women, girt with cords, sit by the roads, burning chaff for incense; and whenever one of them is drawn aside by some passerby who lies with her, she mocks her neighbor who has not been dignified as she has, and has not had her cord broken. Footnote: This seems to refer to the obligation of Babylonian women to serve once in their lives as cult prostitutes. The unbroken cord was a sign that this duty had not yet been fulfilled. Chaff: burnt as an aphrodisiac or for use in erotic rites. Since we know that the worship of foreign gods often involved erotic activities, the chaff as erotic incense closes the loop: adultery:idolatry::chaff as aphrodisiac in erotic worship:chaff as condemnation. God condemns you to what you're choosing anyway. Have at it. Actually I just stumbled across an interesting footnote about chaff.

Baruch 6:42-43 And their [the Chaldean=Babylonian] women, girt with cords, sit by the roads, burning chaff for incense; and whenever one of them is drawn aside by some passerby who lies with her, she mocks her neighbor who has not been dignified as she has, and has not had her cord broken.

Footnote: This seems to refer to the obligation of Babylonian women to serve once in their lives as cult prostitutes. The unbroken cord was a sign that this duty had not yet been fulfilled. Chaff: burnt as an aphrodisiac or for use in erotic rites.

Since we know that the worship of foreign gods often involved erotic activities, the chaff as erotic incense closes the loop: adultery:idolatry::chaff as aphrodisiac in erotic worship:chaff as condemnation.

God condemns you to what you’re choosing anyway. Have at it.

]]> By: kentuckyliz http://catholicbiblestudent.com/2010/02/chaff-and-fire.html/comment-page-1#comment-725 kentuckyliz Sat, 13 Nov 2010 23:59:53 +0000 http://catholicbiblestudent.com/cba/?p=172#comment-725 Until this moment, I never imagined that I'd mark a YouTube video of a wheat field burning as a favorite and share it. Life is full of wonderful little surprises, eh? Until this moment, I never imagined that I’d mark a YouTube video of a wheat field burning as a favorite and share it.

Life is full of wonderful little surprises, eh?

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