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September 12th, 2006 · Posted in Linkage ·

Adrian Plass: A Critical Point
You want to criticise someone and have them actually taken note? Try being close to them in the first place.

Freely I confess my sins
For God has poured his grace in
But when another lists my faults
I want to smash his face in.

Joseph Called Bethlehem Home?
Hey… that’s a really good point - if Joseph came from Bethlehem, why didn’t he stay with any of his family there?

Jonathan Coulton - I’m Your Moon
OK, I lied. But this will (almost definitely, quite probably, in-fact-almost possibly) be the last Pluto ‘thing’ I mention. Charon, singing to Pluto regarding rejection from the planetary line-up. Best line “They invented a reason, that’s why it stings”.

Did I hear an Echo in here?
When you post something on your blog, add something that will make it more than just regurgitating the news.

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Tracy Said:
September 12th, 2006 at 5:41 pm

I like the moon song.

Sorry to disagree with the Joseph issue. He was returning to the city of David for a census because he was of the lineage of David. Not because he was born and raised in Bethlehem himself.

Luk 2:4 Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David,

RodeoClown Said:
September 12th, 2006 at 7:06 pm

Yeah, I know - but surely he would have had some second cousins there or someone he could crash with :)

Graham Lea Said:
September 14th, 2006 at 4:12 pm

I’ve added my totally unverified knowledge on Joseph’s housing situation to the original blog.

RodeoClown Said:
September 14th, 2006 at 4:25 pm

Interesting thought Graham, I know my grandfather thought that it may well have been the room of a house, rather than of an ‘inn’ per sé.

For those of you too lazy to follow the link, here’s Graham’s comment:

I’ve heard before that the word translated in most English bibles as “the inn” (”She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.” Luke 2:7) pretty much means “Guest Room” and was used in Greek to describe both a room in a Hotel and the room where guests would stay in your own house.

It is likely that Joseph & Mary DID stay with Joseph’s family but, because of the census and hence the number of people that would have been there, they weren’t able to fit in the guest room, so slept in the animal room. (I have also heard that Israeli houses typically had a room in the house where the animals slept.)

 
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