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The Tagre citation is accurate and very beautiful, as are his other verses, which I often turn to for solace and beauty. The biblical reference is, however, wrong. In Judges 5,5 the King James version translates accurately the hebrew as : "The mountains melted from before the Lord" It does not mean melting because of God's "infinite timescale" but the melting is because of the very presence of God, as indicated also by the continuation of that biblical sentence: (King James, again) "even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel". This refers to the Mount Sinai event where god descended on the mountain in fire, cloud and smoke, to hand down to Moses the Tablets of the Ten Commandmends.
Thanks for the response. the Deborah citation escaped my attention, but now I see the point. I would also like to add a better citation from Psalms, 90, 4 (King James again) : "For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the nigh". An excellent description, in my view, of the minute imapct of even a full length of a human lifespan, on historical processes.
The Tagre citation is accurate and very beautiful, as are his other verses, which I often turn to for solace and beauty. The biblical reference is, however, wrong. In Judges 5,5 the King James version translates accurately the hebrew as : "The mountains melted from before the Lord" It does not mean melting because of God's "infinite timescale" but the melting is because of the very presence of God, as indicated also by the continuation of that biblical sentence: (King James, again) "even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel". This refers to the Mount Sinai event where god descended on the mountain in fire, cloud and smoke, to hand down to Moses the Tablets of the Ten Commandmends.