Philippians

Well, that week off without blogging flew by. I felt like I didn’t even get a break! Anyways, our prompt for this week was to read St. Paul’s Letter to the Philippians and write about the figurative language in St. Paul’s letter. To tell the truth, I didn’t find much figurative language in the book. I actually went through everyone else’s blogs trying to find examples and I like Josh’s the most. As Josh put it, The biggest bit of figurative language I caught was about circumcision. I massive part of Paul’s letters is reconciling the Old Law with the New Law. The Jewish Christians were obsessed with maintaining the Rabbinic Law, of which circumcision was a major part. To Jewish Christians to be a Christian often made them think that they needed to be Jewish, and thus… *ahem* snip, snip. In my opinion Paul isn’t the best one to address this situation considering he is circumcised himself, yet this also makes him the perfect person because he says that he is extremely Jewish (a “super Jew” as Dr. Waddell has put it before). This statement about having “faith in the false circumcision” is not simply a statement about circumcision, but about the entirety of Old Law.” See, I never would’ve have used that example, that’s why this class has been so good for me. Because when I am confused or looking for a new view on something, I can just click through everyone else’s blogs and find something that helps me better understand or interpret in a different way what we’re reading. I am not very good at finding and explaining stuff like this, but if I had to guess, I would say that when it says “Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers…”, he is speaking figuratively. Once again, I am not very good at this kind of stuff, but it doesn’t seem like this was the best passage to read to find figurative language.