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Pastimes : JESUS and FINANCIAL FREEDOM -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: yard_man who wrote (55)	11/6/1997 11:38:00 PM
From: Cisco	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1283

Barry, ®Cast your bread upon the waters¯ I believe this passage like so many in the Bible lend itselfs to multiple interpertations. To help you understand the direction that I was coming from let me quote a section from Volume 5 of The Broadman Bible Commentary, 1971 edition. ®The writer has emphasized many times that no one knows the future and therefore must make the most of the present. One is not to conclude from this that he is against planning for the future or taking risks where the chances for success are good. In 11:1 he advises the undertaking of business ventures. Cast your bread upon the waters likely refers to sea trade. At the same time he advises caution. One must diversify his investments, lest evil, i.e., calamity, strike and destroy one's entire business. The principle may be applied to other phases of life in which one must make commitments to live a full life. These two verses are sometimes interpreted as teaching generosity to other people. This interpretation, however, disregards the meaning "to send" rather than "to throw" as the KJV and RSV erroneoulsy suggest. The NEB has correctly translated, "Send your grain across the seas, and in time you will get a return. Divide your merchandise among seven ventures, eight maybe, since you do not know what disasters may occur on earth." Continuing in the vein of caution, v. 3 adds that causes inevitably produce effects. Perhaps the writer means that the "disaster" spoken about in v. 2 will inevitably come and one must prepare for it. Nevertheless, one must not be overly cautious (11:4). He must not wait until he understands all causes (11:5) but must go about his work trusting that his risk will be rewarded (11:6). The teaching of prudent venturesomeness may be applied to every area of life to business, to social life, and to spiritual matters. Those who work in faith will receive the reward.¯ The Interpreter's Bible list five of several different explanations that have been given to this passage over the years two of which you may be refering to. The traditional Jewish view was that "the verse exhorts to practice charity from which a reward at long last may be reaped". A similar but slightly different view was put forth by Harry Ranston that it says "Be generous, do not be narrow in your liberality; even on the thankless waters scatter broadcast the seeds of kindness; be sure that sooner or later you will be rewarded." Interesting passage. Makes you stop and think, doesn't? Cisco