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...great stone of Gibeon: "And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him. But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he [Joab] smote him therewith in the fifth...
...Force Base last week and listened to a forcefully delivered sermon on that theme. The chaplain retold the rugged Old Testament story of how the Israelites, trusting in the sacred ark of the covenant as a magic talisman, had fought slackly against the Philistines, and of how the Philistines smote 30,000 Israelites by following the sturdy advice of I Samuel 4:9. The chaplain's point: too many rely for help and salvation on religious symbols and make too little personal effort toward faith...
...becoming a bore was his love for the American scene, and his self-perception. In an obituary he once composed for himself, he described Sinclair Lewis as "a cheerful pathologist, exposing the clichés and sentimentalities of his day"-and then added: "It is evident that Mr. Lewis smote . . . sentimentality because he knew himself to be, at heart, a sentimentalist...
...Moldenkes' new book, Plants of the Bible (Chronica Botanica Co.; $7.50), tries to identify every plant mentioned in the Bible, even to the humble bacterium (Pasteurella pestis) that smote the Israelites with emerods. The job is a tough one, for neither the early writers nor the later translators of the Bible were botanists. They often used the same word for different plants, and different words for the same plant. The botanically innocent scholars who produced the King James Version turned aspens into mulberries and dill into anise. The sycomore that Zacchaeus climbed to catch a glimpse of Jesus...