A few words before sleep
Yesterday, another ludicrous display on the soccer field.
It may be time for me to retire …
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Quite a storm tonight. Rain, loud thunder, brief power outage, etc. The whole family enjoyed it together in bed.
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Today I finished reading the main deuterocanonical books – those accepted by Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christians, but not by Protestants. I shall go on to read 1 and 2 Esdras and the Prayer of Manasseh (canonical for the Orthodox but not for Catholics). I don’t think I own any bibles with 3 and 4 Maccabees, but I’ll look around.
Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) was the most rewarding book to read, by far. Sirach 44:1 – “Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us …” – was the only deuterocanonical verse I knew before I started reading these texts. Unfortunately, what came after that verse was less rewarding than the 43 prior chapters.
These are just gut-level reactions. Obviously, I am no scholar; nor do I wish to pose as a connoisseur.
Because of this project, and because of coincidences in my devotional and church reading schedules, I have gone through the book of Esther, in one version or another, four times in the last year.
It may be time for me to retire …
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
Quite a storm tonight. Rain, loud thunder, brief power outage, etc. The whole family enjoyed it together in bed.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
Today I finished reading the main deuterocanonical books – those accepted by Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christians, but not by Protestants. I shall go on to read 1 and 2 Esdras and the Prayer of Manasseh (canonical for the Orthodox but not for Catholics). I don’t think I own any bibles with 3 and 4 Maccabees, but I’ll look around.
Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) was the most rewarding book to read, by far. Sirach 44:1 – “Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us …” – was the only deuterocanonical verse I knew before I started reading these texts. Unfortunately, what came after that verse was less rewarding than the 43 prior chapters.
These are just gut-level reactions. Obviously, I am no scholar; nor do I wish to pose as a connoisseur.
Because of this project, and because of coincidences in my devotional and church reading schedules, I have gone through the book of Esther, in one version or another, four times in the last year.