Hi, Everybody!
Mondays!
Hey, what Dave wants, Dave gets:
Route 66I also sent him the Wikipedia page.
Nat King Cole
If you ever plan to motor west
Travel my way
Take the highway that's the best
Get your kicks on Route 66
It winds from Chicago to LA
More than two thousand miles all the way
Get your kicks on Route 66
Now you go through St. Louis
Joplin, Missouri
And Oklahoma City looks mighty pretty
You'll see Amarillo
Gallup, New Mexico
Flagstaff, Arizona
Don't forget Winona
Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino
Won't you get hip to this timely tip
When you make that California trip
Get your kicks on Route 66
Won't you get hip to this timely tip
When you make that California trip
Get your kicks on Route 66
Get your kicks on Route 66
Get your kicks on Route 66
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1 comment:
I’m a bit late to the game and am by no means a theologian, but the Samaritan woman is at a well to draw water, at a time of day in which men and women (aside the fact that she is a Samaritan and he, a Jew) did not usually associate. To make it become sexual is a stretch don’t you think? The inference is water, since they are, well….at a well. To think this was his “line”? Or she was offering her libations????
She calls him out…how are you going to get the water from the well? Of course the symbolism is not lost on the early church with this analogous to baptism and to a lesser degree, the Eucharist…..the marriage supper of the lamb….
I don’t have the Greek in front of me, but I would assume “Lord” here is a justification translation and that again, she likely meant a term of respect like “Sir”, but you see in many of the Gospels that the gentiles seem to “get it” e.g. the salfivic graces that the chosen people “The Jews” get passed over (!) “….for now has Salvation come to the Gentiles”. So it’s somewhat romantic (!) to think of this gentile woman acknowledging him first as LORD, but in all likelihood that’s not the case here. She was using etiquette despite the social awkwardness of the situation. Jesus even calls her out: if you knew who said give me drink…..
The convo eventually does become sexual in that he calls her out about her adulterous relationships….again more marriage supper business if you stretch this symbolism even more, but that’s likely stretching it a bit thin….
Of all the Gospel writers, John very often goes out of his way to explain things parenthetically so his audience doesn’t misunderstand him….you see this multiple multiple times in his work. There’s no parenthetical explanation needed for his audience here except later when the woman mentions the Messiah (“he who is Christ”)….
Further the interaction with the woman becomes a conversation with his disciples about eating…..again this would be seen by the early church fathers as foreshadowing the Eucharist.
I don’t otherwise have a point with my comments except to say that I thoroughly enjoy Cerebus and the work of Mr. Sim and am getting more “involved” with the going’s on of the blog, podcast, and the kickstarters. Great work!
Regards,
T. Scott Benefield, MD
CAN #242
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