28-12-2016, 06:12 PM
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Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
Did Nero really play a fiddle, surely it was some type of harp, “Nero harped while Rome burned” fiddles weren’t invented back then, so why do they keep harping on about a fiddle?
Don’t mind me I’m in a questioning mood today.
“In my Fathers house there are many mansions” How many times have we heard that from clergymen over the years, heard it again from the Vicar on an old episode of Steptoe today. Surely it’s a wrong thing to say, to my mind a mansion is a very big elaborate house and a house is just a modest affair, one mansion just would not fit into a house never mind many, should it not be “In my Fathers mansion there are many houses” The mansion was usually resided in by the master of the estate, the houses would be on the estate land and the tenants would pay him rent,
On the other hand maybe the saying could have got mixed up in translation along the way, it could have originally been “In my Fathers house there are many mantles” loose fitting sleeveless cloaks worn by women, perhaps there were many female visitors to the mansion, they could have been involved in arts and crafts for example,
or the ten virgins who trimmed their wicks, there was a big hooley on in the mansion house that night according to Mathew.
"Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them, but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept. But at midnight there was a cry, "Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!" Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. The foolish said to the wise, "Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out." But the wise answered, saying, "What if there isn't enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves." While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut. Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, "Lord, Lord, open to us." But he answered, "Most certainly I tell you, I don't know you." Watch therefore, for you don't know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming." Mathew 25.1.13
Chew on that for a while Pug, then tell me what you make of them goings on with virgins and what have yeh, and all in the holy book too.