Comments on: Psalm 52: you’ve buttered your bread… http://www.dignoscentia.com/2006/05/26/psalm-52-youve-buttered-your-bread/ the power to discern Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:36:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Raoul http://www.dignoscentia.com/2006/05/26/psalm-52-youve-buttered-your-bread/#comment-310 Raoul Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:19:38 +0000 http://www.dignoscentia.com/2006/05/26/psalm-52-youve-buttered-your-bread/#comment-310 No, and here's why. When a tree is uprooted, its wood remains, but the life is gone out of it. Its material can be used for furniture, fire, etc., whatever, but I think you'll agree with me on this: that tree no longer exists as a tree. It has now become wood. In much the same way, if a person dies, their body stays behind, and will decay (much quicker than a dead tree, if I might add). But the life's gone out of that body. It's now become a decaying carcass, good for nothing but for fertilizing the soil, speaking in a practical manner and leaving sentiment out of it. The metaphor used in this psalm to refer to the destruction of the wicked can therefore be understood in this way. Whatever happens to their bodies after they die, it doesn't really matter. They're just carcasses anyway. Their lives are gone. I hope this clears it up. No, and here’s why. When a tree is uprooted, its wood remains, but the life is gone out of it. Its material can be used for furniture, fire, etc., whatever, but I think you’ll agree with me on this: that tree no longer exists as a tree. It has now become wood. In much the same way, if a person dies, their body stays behind, and will decay (much quicker than a dead tree, if I might add). But the life’s gone out of that body. It’s now become a decaying carcass, good for nothing but for fertilizing the soil, speaking in a practical manner and leaving sentiment out of it.

The metaphor used in this psalm to refer to the destruction of the wicked can therefore be understood in this way. Whatever happens to their bodies after they die, it doesn’t really matter. They’re just carcasses anyway. Their lives are gone. I hope this clears it up.

]]> By: ruth http://www.dignoscentia.com/2006/05/26/psalm-52-youve-buttered-your-bread/#comment-309 ruth Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:13:15 +0000 http://www.dignoscentia.com/2006/05/26/psalm-52-youve-buttered-your-bread/#comment-309 I agree with you that uprooting is a sudden event, quickly over, but couldn't that refer just to the occasion of dying itself. In other words, couldn't the uprooted tree lie in a brush pile for a long time afterwards? I agree with you that uprooting is a sudden event, quickly over, but couldn’t that refer just to the occasion of dying itself. In other words, couldn’t the uprooted tree lie in a brush pile for a long time afterwards?

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