tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320313747187588188.post3640351291995518464..comments2024-03-28T13:59:11.445-07:00Comments on Left Behind and Loving It: Bedazzled and Blurting D. Mark Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12016377712982292924noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320313747187588188.post-42043671598837782952024-02-16T11:45:36.025-08:002024-02-16T11:45:36.025-08:00Thanks, Amy. Blessings on your ministry and you se...Thanks, Amy. Blessings on your ministry and you seem quite smart to me in how you have approached this text well beyond my comments. <br />Thanks again,<br />MDMark Davishttps://leftbehindandlovingit.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320313747187588188.post-81073662585217125402024-02-10T13:25:00.678-08:002024-02-10T13:25:00.678-08:00Thanks for your comments, again. I am a regular re...Thanks for your comments, again. I am a regular reader of your blog and the congregations I preach in think I am very smart. But most of it is really you.<br />Today it occurs to me that "skene" though not, alas, associated with English "skin" or "skein", is in fact related to the English "scene." It was a word of theater, then and now. Definition in the Britannica: "a building behind the playing area that was originally a hut for the changing of masks and costumes but eventually became the background before which the drama was enacted." Perhaps Peter realizes that God is putting on a show for him, for the other disciples, and for us. I've been quick to chastise him for immediately embarking on a building program in response to his bedazzlement, but maybe he is aware that this Drama on the Mountaintop<br />deserves a thater. My uncle was told as a boy"Young man, you will either go into the church or on to the stage." (He did the former.) My sermon tomorrow therefore is going to be about the church as a stage or theater of transformation. Thanks for all your helpful commentary. With all best wishes, AAAmy Aberdeenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13415838654525395662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320313747187588188.post-25860007439958561802021-02-14T13:26:44.683-08:002021-02-14T13:26:44.683-08:00Thanks, Jenna, for both your encouragement and you...Thanks, Jenna, for both your encouragement and your suggestion. I will act on it soon and be mindful of the concern. Thanks again.<br />MDD. Mark Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12016377712982292924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320313747187588188.post-57997143693090227802021-02-12T15:35:01.531-08:002021-02-12T15:35:01.531-08:00Hi Mark! Thank you for another excellent resource,...Hi Mark! Thank you for another excellent resource, I love that you share your translation work with us :)<br /><br />Just wanted to encourage you to rethink using the term "hillbilly" as a pejorative. Local dialects and manners of speech are viewed as linguistically valid. <br /><br />I actually like the double-negative aspect of other languages (I'm an English speaker). The emphasis it provides, such as in v8 here, is a helpful sign for me as a non-(insert language) speaker to pay extra attention to the lack of something. <br /><br />In this case, the emphasis of seeing no one on their way down the mountain emphasizes how remote they were, and ties back into your argument of why there were 3 witnesses to the event: they were SO far removed that the only way this event could be believed is that there were 3 others there with Jesus to pay witness to it.<br /><br />Just some thoughts. Thanks!Jennahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06587093329389887248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320313747187588188.post-17128650418089762492021-02-10T09:22:51.140-08:002021-02-10T09:22:51.140-08:00I'm sure it is. Isaiah 6 comes to mind.
MDI'm sure it is. Isaiah 6 comes to mind. <br />MDD. Mark Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17644181693534649272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320313747187588188.post-19230841413614104122021-02-09T08:09:55.438-08:002021-02-09T08:09:55.438-08:00I like the "freaking out" aspect! But I...I like the "freaking out" aspect! But I am curious: is this phrase similar to the fear/awe connection we see especially in the OT?Joejamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07446286248567098709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320313747187588188.post-48532554382997470672018-02-11T05:07:08.741-08:002018-02-11T05:07:08.741-08:00Thanks, Ed. Thanks, Ed. D. Mark Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12016377712982292924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8320313747187588188.post-92012496515759132402018-02-10T14:08:39.001-08:002018-02-10T14:08:39.001-08:00Mark, thanks for your translation and notes on thi...Mark, thanks for your translation and notes on this passage. Rockabilly Pastorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16173861236597200848noreply@blogger.com