Created OOMs ?
The Traplamp, a bulky flashlight shape of scratched turqoise plastic with surprisingly no more than a single clunky switch. From the front, a smudged transparent bulge swelled like a bulb about to fall from its socket. Inside this swelling the arcane mechanics of the device could be glimpsed by a youthful eye.
Switched on, cast networks like the light reflected from tremulous water, but frozen in form, multiple layers of different colour, sliding past each other in different directions: red, violet, brown, patina, combed intermittantly by a 'radar' beam of thin eye-burn style light in lightning form.
Traplight, a light which, supposedly, no preternatural entity could conceal itself from.
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Proverbs 12:20, “Deceit is in the hearts of those who devise evil, but the counselors of peace have joy.” Carefully planned deception is evil. However we do sometimes misunderstand also which is another reason we are warned often not to be deceived. Only through careful study are we able to know the difference between a carefully devised evil plan to deceive and our own misunderstanding.
Question 100: What problems did the queen of Sheba put to prove the Wisdom of Solomon?
Answer:
The Bible here gives us no clue but tradition has preserved some of the questions which she is said to have put to Solomon to test his wisdom! These we believe, are principally found in the Talmudic writings. It is said she introduced a party of children all dressed alike and asked the king to tell which were boys and which girls. King Solomon ordered vessels to be brought that the children might wash their hands. The girls rolled up their sleeves, but the boys plunged their hands into the water at once and were easily detected by the king. The queen next ordered her attendants to set before Solomon a number of beautiful bouquets and asked him to indicate which were the real flowers and which the false. Solomon ordered the keeper of his gardens to bring in a hive of bees and they almost instantly settled upon the natural flowers and began to extract the sweets from them, leaving the artificial flowers untouched. Other traditions illustrative of Solomon's wisdom are told by the ancient writers.
Question 99: Whence came the Queen of Sheba?
Answer:
It is supposed by well-informed authorities that she came from Yemen, in Arabia Felix. In Matthew 12:42 she is referred to as the "Queen of the South," who came from "the uttermost parts of the earth," a term applied by the ancients to southern Arabia. Not improbably she was a lineal descendant of Abraham by Keturah whose grandson Sheba, peopled that part of the then known world. The Arabic account of this queen gives her the name of Bilkis or Yelkamah, a monarch of the Himyerites; but their account is probably more legendary than accurate as to detail.
Question 98: What was the width of the Red Sea at the point where Israel crossed?
Answer:
It is generally held by a majority of writers and travellers that the passage was made at Ras Atakah Point, about six miles south of Suez and opposite the southern end of Jebel Atakah. At Ras Atakah, the land runs out in the form of a promontory for fully a mile into the sea beyond the regular shore line. Beyond this, there is a shoal for nearly a mile more, over which the water at low tide is usually about fourteen feet deep. Beyond this and before the true channel or centre is reached, there are two other comparative shoals; the channel itself is somewhere about fifty feet deep and three-quarters of a mile wide. There is another succession of shoals on the eastern shore. The distance from shore to shore is about five and a half miles.
Question 97: What figure is conveyed by the words “Rachel weeping for her children”?
Answer:
The passage in Matthew 2:18 relates to the Babylonian captivity. Rachel, the wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin, is figuratively represented as rising from the tomb and lamenting over the loss of her children. Raman in Benjamin was a scene of pillage and massacre in Jeremiah's time (see Jeremiah 31:15) and hence is chosen by the prophet in his figurative scene of lamentation.
Frequently asked questions and answers
Question 96: Who wrote the Books of Proverbs and Psalms?
Answer:
Some ancient authorities, rabbis and others attribute the book to Solomon; others hold that it has a composite origin and is the work of a number of writers. The ablest modern critics hold the latter opinion. It is probable that Solomon was the author of the portion beginning with the first verse of the tenth chapter and ending with the sixteenth verse of the twenty-second chapter. As we learn from the first verse of the twenty-fifth chapter, the collection of proverbs extending to the end of the twenty-ninth chapter was also attributed to him, but was not compiled until 250 years after his death. The remainder of the book appears to be composed of six portions by different hands at different periods. One of these is the introduction, which occupies the first nine chapters. This was probably written by the man, who compiled the whole book, but whose name is unknown. The Book of Psalms (which is the Psalter of the Hebrews) has many authors, the principal one being David. Some are attributed to Hezekiah, Josiah and Zerubbabel, two (the 72d and 127th) to Solomon, several to the Levites and the Asaphites, one at least to Jeduthun, eleven to the sons of Korah, one to Ethan (Psalm 89), while many are of uncertain authorship. Moses is given by tradition as the author of Psalm 90, being the only contribution of which his authorship is reasonably certain. The Psalms cover a period of a thousand years. They were composed at different remote periods, by various poets; David, the most prolific contributor, being' indicated as the author of seventy-three Psalms in the Hebrew text and eleven in the Septuagint.
Question 95: Who were the Philistines?
Answer:
Their origin is nowhere expressly stated in the Bible; but since the prophets describe them as "the Philistines from Caphtor" (Amos 9:7) and "the remnant of the maritime district of Caphtor" (Jeremiah 47:4), it is probable that they were the "Caphtorim which came out of Caphtor" and who expelled the Avim from their lands and occupied them (Deuteronomy 2:23) and that they were the Caphtorim mentioned in the Mosaic genealogical table among the descendants of Mizraim. There is equal authority for believing Caphtor to have been the island of Cyprus, or a land somewhere between Egypt and Ethiopia or a part of Northern Egypt Some have claimed that Caphtor and the modern island of Crete are identical; but the best authorities do not agree with this conclusion.
Question 94: If YHVH “hardened” Pharaoh’s heart, was it possible for him to do otherwise than he did?
Answer:
The true interpretation is that the divine message of warning and the plagues which followed were the occasion of Pharaoh's heart being hardened. Thus, the expression which has been translated as "hardened" is in Hebrew, "strong," implying that the influence of the events had been to make the king's heart stubborn or rebellious. (See Exodus 7:13, 14, 8:19 and 9:35.) Elsewhere in the same narrative the Hebrew expression is capable of being translated "made heavy" (as in Exodus 7:14 and 8:15 and 32, also Exodus 9:34). The passage in Exodus 7:23, which may be rendered as in the Authorized Version and also as "he (Pharaoh) set his heart even to this," expresses the condition of Egypt's ruler, who had set his face like a flint against Jehovah and was alternately depressed and defiant, but not repentant.
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