thanks, but why would a diversion from "He" occur, even start? Like Jesus is referred to (without change) as "He"......that did not, does not change...even to this day...
Where and why did a "she" get inserted? Solomon wrote most of Proverbs, didn't he? And wasn't the wisdom God gifted him with, from God, and therefore the "she" that he inserted into what he wrote regarding wisdom, from God? my question is, why would God refer to wisdom as a "she"?
Originally Posted by brinny
thanks, but why would a diversion from "He" occur, even start? Like Jesus is referred to (without change) as "He"......that did not, does not change...even to this day...
Where and why did a "she" get inserted? Solomon wrote most of Proverbs, didn't he? And wasn't the wisdom God gifted him with, from God, and therefore the "she" that he inserted into what he wrote regarding wisdom, from God? my question is, why would God refer to wisdom as a "she"?
What is your objection to wisdom being referred to as "she"?
Sure look concerning men travailing with child here...
Jerm 30:6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
Jesus was talking to men with child here...
John 16:21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
After they do, they appear to do it AGAIN (with others)
Gal 4:19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth againuntil Christ be formed in you,
Hey, breast feeding kings
Isaiah 60:16 Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings
1Cr 3:2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat
In the early Syriac Church the Holy Spirit was referenced using the feminine pronoun. Thats interesting too huh?
LOL well yes, but aren't they metaphors?
that is interesting....i wonder why?
Because things are feminine in language. Why I don't have a clue.but THAT is what is sooooooo intriguing.....why even go there with wisdom? Why break from the "He" of God and insert "she" in there when speaking of wisdom? Why not keep it "He"?
This is intriguing me more and more......
When reading the quotes of the Saints and their lives, the soul is referred to as a "she" as well.I think anything short of God which is too expansive, too subtle and too big for the mind will be described as a "she":
Wisdom = she
Large ships = she
Planet earth, and nature itself = she.
QV: http://www.christianforums.com/t7487690-4/
When reading the quotes of the Saints and their lives, the soul is referred to as a "she" as well.
Proverbs predates the Greek invasion of the middle east by over 600 years, it's more likely that the Greeks got it from reading Solomon's proverbs.Because Wisdom has been traditionally personified as female, courtesy of the Greeks and other cultures.
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