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@Davïd Just reading Fredriksen's comments now - wow! I guess the authors hadn't checked with anyone who knows anything before they wrote it....a shame the journal didn't think to do so either....

Davïd

@Susan And she knows whereof she speaks. (Not so very far from you, perhaps?)

Time to shut down here. Bfn!

3 hours later…

Dan

3:25 AM

@Davïd thx for sharing!

6 hours later…

Caleb

9:26 AM

So apparently the community user get's to wear hats too! If anybody has a better pick let me know.

hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community

Davïd

@Caleb Wahey! Well done. I wondered if she would get a hat, and you picked a nice one, imo: nicely perched. "Gelt" would also be appropriate, although design-wise it's fairly subtle.

Davïd

10:06 AM

Hmmm... Can't quite work out what hat @Caleb is working on........

Caleb

@Davïd Now? Cleaning my desk off in preparation for travel (I don't mind it messy when I'm using it, but I hate coming back to an old mess).

Oh you mean for the previous half hour. Well that should be obvious.

Davïd

@Caleb There's a hat for cleaning up your desk? I should work on that one.

@Caleb Should be - there's five of 'em, but I don't see a hat for five edits. Hmmm.

Caleb

The sad part is even with a growing closet full of headgear, I'm really quite content wearing my waffle.

Davïd

@Caleb LOL - and I think you must be in a time warp ... but are those Q's old enough? Time (!) will tell!

Caleb

I really should update my profile pic though, my facial decoration has ... expanded a a bit.

@Davïd It gave me the hat just now, so apparently yes.

Davïd

10:13 AM

@Caleb Hurrah! :^{)> (my face art is a bit crude...)

Jack Douglas

11:08 AM

@Davïd I wrote my own, feel free to use it if you like: douglastechnology.co.uk/esv?passage=Genesis+1.24-31

@Davïd I've got 3 DVs on my answer there :)

btw, I've voted to reopen that question, not sure why folk think it is off-topic:

Q: Are we to interpret Jesus’ commandment to love our enemies literally?

Are we to interpret Jesus’ commandment to love our enemies literally? Are we to interpret Jesus’ commandment to love our enemies literally? If so, is this a departure of God’s character in the Old Testament, which constantly visits the enemies of Israel with punishment and destruction and even s...

gospels

TRiG

11:28 AM

@JackDouglas Nifty.

Jack Douglas

11:44 AM

thanks :)

Caleb

12:38 PM

@JackDouglas Sounds to me kind of like he's looking for prescription.

@Davïd Good point, there's not. So I gave it up and went back to SE and diversified my headgear across my top sites. Much ~~better use~~ ~~more practical use~~ waste of time.

Jack Douglas

1:26 PM

@Caleb the question has a false dichotomy, but it comes naturally enough from the text

Caleb

@JackDouglas I wasn't actually commenting on the question, only speculating why people probably VtC'ed it.

Jack Douglas

@Caleb Is that your real beard? It is mighty impressive

Caleb

@JackDouglas Yes. This morning's model.

Davïd

1:55 PM

@Caleb Now that is some serious facial hair. I couldn't grow that if my life depended on it. I did spend ... what was it ... 20ish? years of my life with a beard. It was always a scruffy affair. That is the business.

@JackDouglas That's genius!

Davïd

2:15 PM

@JackDouglas I think it's "off topic" for the reason @Caleb suggests. But it could fairly easily be re-cast.

Here's my suggestion (if it was in this form, I'd vote for re-opening.) (Which might even lead to a hat.):

Was Jesus’ commandment to his disciples to love their enemies in [Matthew 5:43][1] intended to be understood literally? If so, is this a departure of God’s character in the Old Testament, which constantly visits the enemies of Israel with punishment and destruction and even sometimes commands the Israelites to destroy their enemies? .../2

... (cont'd) / Consider, for example, how God sends his spirit upon Samson to bring death and destruction against the Philistines (Jdg 14:19; 15:15; 16:30), arch-enemies of the Israelites. Did Jesus expect his followers to love their "Philistines", or treat them as Samson did? [1]: biblehub.com/matthew/5-43.htm

Jack Douglas

@Davïd excellent!

Davïd

@JackDouglas Shall I go ahead and edit, with appropriate comment?

Jack Douglas

I think that would be a super idea :)

@Caleb is it inspired by anything? At first I thought Assyrian or Babylonian, but that's not quite right!

Davïd

@JackDouglas It's kind of Assyrian...

@JackDouglas and done! (Just going to comment now)

Jack Douglas

@Davïd do you think it's better with the verse added (I edited it in)?

Davïd

2:29 PM

@JackDouglas Yep. I always like having the text there. I've modded my comment accordingly. ;)

Jack Douglas

@jack-douglas yeah, that's why I can't test it. I've got 7. — Diodak 15 mins ago

sigh

Caleb

@Davïd and @JackDouglas good work. I can get behind that wording.

@JackDouglas No, not particularly.

Davïd

@JackDouglas It's a challenge to ASCII art, I tell you. I offer you "Caleb, by Davïd"... (:^{⊐

Jack Douglas

(:^《{{

Davïd

@JackDouglas Yep, I think you've caught the contours better than I have. @Caleb - you're an inspiration!

Jack Douglas

2:40 PM

Davïd

That's some subtle fine-tuning, Jack. Respect.

Jack Douglas

Unicode is probably cheating, don't you think?

A: ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶ Forbid unicode?

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^^^ there's another classic on meta somewhere, it escapes me for now

Davïd

@JackDouglas This one comes to mind:

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