One of my favorite Book of Mormon phrases (growing up) is found in 3 Nephi 10:4
how oft have I gathered you as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and have nourished you.
Funnily enough, it never dawned on me that this same phrase is found in Luke 13 and other places in the Bible. For some reason, I always thought this was a nice warm Book of Mormon phrase and one of the reasons the Book of Mormon was so special.
The image below is what reminded me of this phrase. Jean Paul Gaultier SPRING/SUMMER 2013
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
zeezrom wrote:One of my favorite Book of Mormon phrases (growing up) is found in 3 Nephi 10:4
how oft have I gathered you as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and have nourished you.
Funnily enough, it never dawned on me that this same phrase is found in Luke 13 and other places in the Bible. For some reason, I always thought this was a nice warm Book of Mormon phrase and one of the reasons the Book of Mormon was so special.
As usual, Book of Mormon is distorting the original.
Here is:
Luke 13:34 wrote:O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
I told Stak once that having the Book of Mormon and the Bible is like having 2 boyfriends. They really don't complement each other well. The Book of Mormon tries (unsuccessfully) to steal the show (mostly) by copying.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
zeezrom wrote:I told Stak once that having the Book of Mormon and the Bible is like having 2 boyfriends. They really don't complement each other well. The Book of Mormon tries (unsuccessfully) to steal the show (mostly) by copying.
Yup. I know the Bible pretty well, and I find that my efforts to read the text of the Book of Mormon in any kind of sympathetic way are frustrated by the constant sense that I am discovering small but significant plagiarisms. What is more, these little stealings never seem to improve on the original, but if anything to make things a little less interesting. I am not referring to the well-known wholesale borrowings from Isaiah, but to examples such as the one quoted above.
But - maybe that is just my prejudice. Can anyone brought up on the Book of Mormon as their primary religious text give me an example where the Book of Mormon reuses biblical phrasing so that the result is in some sense better than the original?
If you do give an example, please indicate exactly what you think the improvement consists of.
But - maybe
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
