{"id":4775,"date":"2008-09-15T11:59:14","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T15:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=4775"},"modified":"2009-01-17T01:53:06","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T05:53:06","slug":"two-texts-on-a-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2008\/09\/two-texts-on-a-flood\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Texts on a Summer Flood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apropos of the season and storm.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hwlongfellow.org\/poems_poem.php?pid=2043\">&#8220;The Musician&#8217;s Tale, &#8221; <em>Tales of a Wayside Inn<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;As torrents in summer,<br \/>\nHalf dried in their channels,<br \/>\nSuddenly rise, though the<br \/>\nSky is still cloudless,<br \/>\nFor rain has been falling<br \/>\nFar off at their fountains;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So hearts that are fainting<br \/>\nGrow full to o&#8217;erflowing,<br \/>\nAnd they that behold it<br \/>\nMarvel, and know not<br \/>\nThat God at their fountains<br \/>\nFar off has been raining!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ezekiel 47: 1-12:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1\tAfterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward:  for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.<br \/>\n2 \tThen brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto the outer gate by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side.<br \/>\n3 \tAnd when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles.<br \/>\n4 \tAgain he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins.<br \/>\n5 \tAfterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over.<br \/>\n6 \tAnd he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this?<br \/>\n        Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river.<br \/>\n7 \tNow when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.<br \/>\n8 \tThen said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.<br \/>\n9 \tAnd it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.<br \/>\n10 \tAnd it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from Enge&#8217;di even unto En\u00e2\u20ac\u201ceg&#8217;la-im; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.<br \/>\n11 \tBut the miry places thereof and the marshes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.<br \/>\n12 \tAnd by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apropos of the season and storm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6167,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775\/revisions\/6167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}