RE: Are you man enough...
December 29, 2013 at 3:42 pm
(This post was last modified: December 29, 2013 at 4:07 pm by TudorGothicSerpent.)
(December 28, 2013 at 7:09 pm)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: The verses say apple. You say no no, it's all symbolic it really means watermelon, you guys just think it's apple because you want to make god into who you think he is.
Completely disregarding the fact that the verses in fact said apple.
In this case, he seems to be right. The text is pretty explicit that the two prostitutes mentioned (who get the names Aholah and Aholibah) are actually the cities of Jerusalem and Samaria. Ezekiel 23:4: "Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah." The names also aren't common female Hebrew names, and they're puns suggesting the relationship between the states of the divided monarchy. Prostitution or adultery is used as a metaphor for the Israelites practicing paganism fairly frequently in the Old Testament, sometimes with pretty sexually suggestive imagery. This is probably the most dramatic time, but other uses are also kind of explicit. The ancient Israelites probably weren't quite as squeamish about sexual language as a lot of modern readers. The easiest interpretation of that isn't that the author was trying to be graphic to show how terrible it was. More likely than not, he was trying to say that the Egyptians had a lot to offer in terms of material wealth (which, in the metaphor, is of course sexual prowess) and that Israel and Samaria went for it.
