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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (9827)	1/26/2002 12:44:47 PM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Proverbs 3:35 The wise inherit honor, but he holds fools up113 to public contempt.114 113tc MT reads <yr]m@ ("he lifts up"): singular Hiphil participle of <Wr ("to rise; to exalt"), functioning verbally with the Lord as the implied subject: "but he lifts up fools to shame." The LXX and Vulgate reflect the plural <ym!yr]m= ("they exalt") with "fools" (<yl!ys!K=) as the explicit subject: "but fools exalt shame." The textual variant was caused by haplography or dittography of <y (depending on whether MT or the alternate tradition is original). 114tn The noun /olq* ("ignominy; dishonor; contempt") is from hlq which is an alternate form of ll^q* which means (1) "to treat something lightly," (2) "to treat with contempt [or, with little esteem]" or (3) "to curse." The noun refers to personal disgrace or shame. While the wise will inherit honor, fools will be made a public display of dishonor. God lets fools entangle themselves in their folly in a way for all to see.