![]() Life seemed to have played the cruelest of jokes, and the punchline was anything but funny. I wondered how many young wives and mothers were once just like me shattered, broken, abandoned, and left to scavenge through the rubble of a life now gone to find something, anything, that might help piece things back together again. I wondered how many of the people whose physical homes had been destroyed by this monster hurricane had also once felt the stinging winds of disappointment as their dreams fell around them like a barren wasteland. ![]() What I had dreamed, worked hard to build, what I had planned, planted, nurtured, cared for, and tended once looked just like the scene I now beheld outside the confines and safety of my car. Unfortunately, that is not at all how it turned out. In my mind, it probably would even have had a fancy bow tied around it as if it had been a package of sorts commemorating some splendid occasion. I had pictured my own “white picket fence”, my storybook cottage kind of house, and my perfect little family, complete with a “happily ever after” to nicely button things up. I had embarked on my life’s journey with big, fairytale-like plans. I commented how grateful I was that my father wasn’t alive to see the nightmare-ish sight in front of me, and that I knew it would have broken his heart.Īs I sat and reflected on the imagery, the utter devastation, chaos, and loss that lay before me, I was reminded of my own young life. My heart sank as I sat gazing through the windshield and I couldn’t help but brush away the warm tears that trickled down my cheeks. Hurricane Michael had ravaged my father’s boyhood homeplace, the place we always came “home” too! It seemed unfathomable that it would never look the same again as it had been rendered all but unrecognizable. A visual example of ruin and destruction sprawled in front of me. 1915.The endless mounds of rubble and debris lined the narrow street of what had once been the site of many of my fondest childhood memories. "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". Between these possibilities the commentaries are almost equally divided. In 1 Thessalonians 4:4 "vessel" may be taken as a figure for either the man's own body or for his wife. But the figure of such "vessels" as (passively) filled with different contents is not Biblical. ![]() see POTTER), and through Acts 9:15 the word "vessel" has passed into Christian theology as signifying simply a human being. Vessels of all sorts and kinds and for all sorts of uses were so familiar as to make them natural illustrations for different sorts of human beings ( Hosea 8:8 Isaiah 22:24 Jeremiah 22:28, etc. A different use is that of The Wisdom of Solomon 14:1, where "vessel" represents ploion, "a boat," while The Wisdom of Solomon 14:5,6 the King James Version has "weak vessel" for schedia, "raft" (so the Revised Version (British and American)). In addition, "vessel" appears in Isaiah 30:14 for nebhel, "jar" in Matthew 13:48 for aggos, "vessels" and in Sirach 21:14 Matthew 25:4 for aggeion, a diminutive form of aggos. For war among the Hebrews was a holy function, calling for extreme ceremonial purity ( Deuteronomy 23:9-14). But in 1 Samuel 21:8, in the immediate context of the verse above, keli certainly means "weapons," and this translation is quite intelligible in 21:5 also. English Versions of the Bible evidently intended something in the nature of provision wallets, and the "holiness" of such objects finds partial parallels in Numbers 19:15 Leviticus 11:32-34, etc. In 1 Samuel 21:5, however, the translation of the plural of keli by "vessels" is dubious. Is used freely in English Versions of the Bible to translate keli, the Aramaic ma'n, and skeuos, words all meaning "an implement or utensil" of any kind, when the context shows that a hollow utensil is meant. Encyclopedias - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Vessel
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