{"id":2782,"date":"2024-01-12T22:42:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T22:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2782"},"modified":"2024-01-12T22:42:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T22:42:48","slug":"evensong-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2782","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 96"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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After reading Spurgeon\u2019s commentary and then the psalm itself, I\u2019m reminded that we read the Bible all wrong \u2014 as progressive textualists, not as conservative originalists. We fool ourselves into thinking that The Holy Bible \u2014 like The Constitution \u2014 was written with Americans in mind.

When \u2014 as with this psalm \u2014 the psalmist writes, \u201cSing to the Lord, all the earth\u201d and \u201cthe Lord made the heavens,\u201d his ideas of the land and sky are much different from ours. His world \u2014 his entire universe, in fact \u2014 was much smaller, more compact, less well rounded than ours is now.

Even Spurgeon interprets those references in terms of his limited 19th-century knowledge when the preacher declares that \u201cNational jealousies are dead\u201d and \u201cAll the earth Jehovah made\u201d and \u201cthe sun shines on all lands\u2026.\u201d Neither the State of Israel nor the late great USSR existed then.

But in Old Hebrew times, Copernicus and Galileo and all of those other great lookers and big thinkers weren\u2019t even glints in their distant ancestors\u2019 eyes, so the heavens and the earth to King David and King Solomon \u2014 and millennia later even the Rev. Spurgeon \u2014 were so much different than now.

And what about in this day and age with all the new wonders we\u2019re seeing and coming to know, whether virtually or in person? Isn\u2019t it ironic that many conservative thinkers now \u2014 originalists, they call themselves \u2014 interpret a wrong-headed holy writ like beat poets but our most vital rights like flat-earthers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After reading Spurgeon\u2019s commentary and then the psalm itself, I\u2019m reminded that we read the Bible all wrong \u2014 as progressive textualists, not as conservative originalists. We fool ourselves into thinking that The Holy Bible \u2014 like The Constitution \u2014 was written with Americans in mind. When \u2014 as with this psalm \u2014 the psalmist … Continue reading EVENSONG 96<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2783,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions\/2783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}