Post by ChrisJudges 3:24
When the king’s servants returned and saw that the doors were locked, they
waited, thinking that perhaps he was using the bathroom.
1 Samuel 24:3
At the place where the road passes some sheepfolds, Saul went into a cave
to go to the bathroom, but as it happened, David and his men were hiding in
the cave!
By the wonders of t’internet
<wince>
I'm sure there is a case for making the Bible's language more
accessible, but I am put in mind of this, from Alan Bennett's essay
Comfortable Words:
""Those who rewrote the Prayer Book complained very much at the time -
and understandably - that many of the protests came from those, such as
myself, whose connection with the Church was tenuous, the argument
implicit in this
being that the clergy know what is best for their congregations. This is
the same argument that is advanced by farmers in answer to protests about
the grubbing-up of hedges and the destruction of field patterns. The land
is the farmer's bread and butter, the argument goes, and so he must
therefore have its welfare more at heart than the occasional visitor. So in
their own field the liturgical reformers grub up the awkward thickets of
language that make the harvest of souls more difficult, plough in the
sixteenth century hedges that are hard to penetrate but for that reason
shelter all manner of rare creatures: poetry, mystery, transcendence. All
must be flat, dull, accessible and rational. Fields and worship."
--
Sid
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