Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Tiger of Ignorance

Science has swallowed modern so the cure for all ills is said to be more mouth of the math. To compete with China and India science would swallow whatever is left. The voracious appetite of previous centuries is surprisingly unglutted; it has made a third of the population morbidly obese.  Science has swallowed but appetite grows. The tiger of  ignorance makes Bullinger obsolete who said that the universe was created in Virgo, the time of Rosh Hashanah, the new year. What import is it that the universe is created in Virgo? Is it not obvious Virgo was created after the universe? Did Psalm 1 come first, and after it Psalm 2? Rosh Hashanah shows how the issue of delight and wonder may meditate the law of the Lord day and night.

All this and not is said and not said in Psalm 1. The wonder of biblical background narration.  Read Erich Auerbach in "Odysseus' Scar." Talk about a seed! Nurtured and grown it is the salvation of the world.

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