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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (2623)	1/23/2001 9:04:06 PM
From: YlangYlangBreeze	Respond to of 82486

The derivation is that Onan was a seed spiller. It is Scripture, however, which I wish to dwell upon in this essay - returning in particular to the case of Onan related in Gen. 38:7-10. I will argue that those biblical scholars upon whose works commentators like Echevarria depend are far from reliable in their exegesis of this passage. The text (in the Douay-Rheims version) reads as follows: (7) And Her, the firstborn of Juda, was wicked in the sight of the Lord: and was slain by him. (8) Juda therefore said to Onan his son: Go in to thy brother’s wife and marry her, that thou mayst raise seed to thy brother. (9) He, knowing that the children should not be his, when he went in to his brother’s wife, spilled his seed upon the ground,6 lest children should be born in his brother’s name. (10) And therefore the Lord slew him, because he did a detestable thing. ccli.org