| Title: | Discussions from a Christian Perspective |
| Notice: | Prostitutes and tax collectors welcome! |
| Moderator: | CSC32::J_CHRISTIE |
| Created: | Mon Sep 17 1990 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1362 |
| Total number of notes: | 61362 |
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| 1336.1 | ASGMKA::MARTIN | Concerto in 66 Movements | Thu Mar 20 1997 14:46 | 10 | |
ZZ Are you a peculiar person? Are you part of a peculiar people?
It would seem the theme of all the verses you mentioned centers around
holiness...being different from all the rest.
A good example is Job. The Lord looked to and fro from both ends of
the earth and found nobody save Job. He was peculiar because he was
holy.
-Jack
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| 1336.2 | Set apart | COVERT::COVERT | John R. Covert | Thu Mar 20 1997 16:11 | 7 |
"Peculiar" doesn't have it's modern meaning of "odd" in the examples you have chosen. The word, according to my dictionary, meant "belonging to a particular person or group, separate, or independent" at that point in history. /john | |||||
| 1336.3 | CSC32::J_CHRISTIE | Spigot of pithiness | Fri Mar 21 1997 01:08 | 8 | |
I'm sure 'holy' could have been used, but it was not. 'Peculiar' is
the word used.
Being set apart, of course, does tend to make one peculiar. Identifiably
so, it would seem.
Richard
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| 1336.4 | APACHE::MYERS | Fri Mar 21 1997 13:01 | 12 | ||
| 1336.5 | CSC32::J_CHRISTIE | Spigot of pithiness | Fri Mar 21 1997 17:28 | 9 | |
In addition to all the other definitions, I believe being 'peculiar'
will manifest itself in some measure of 'oddness,' or 'unusualness,'
or even 'eccentricity' as, at least, a by-product.
Loving one's enemy is an odd thing to do, for example. How unusual
it is to witness it.
Richard
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