[lit-ideas] Re: Take aff yer Sandals
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Lit-Ideas <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 13:49:26 +0900
A laugh a day keeps philosophers away!
Love it.
John
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 12:20 PM, David Ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
> On Mar 1, 2015, at 6:16 PM, (Redacted sender "Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx" for
> DMARC) wrote:
>
> > O. K. writes wonders (if that's the verb) that "whether God originally
> > spoke to Moses in some language other than Hebrew, such as Egyptian - is
> a
> > matter of conjecture."
>
>
> God spoke to Moses in Glaswegian. It's in a book, which I own.
>
> "Wan day, as he wis mindin his sheep oan the slope o Mount Sinai, [Moses]
> saw whit seemed tae be a bush in flames. The odd thing wis, though the
> bush wis burnin away, it didny faw apart! Moses heard a voice callin oot,
> 'Moses! Moses! Take aff yer sandals. Ye're standing the presence o God.'
> Moses wis feart an hid his face in his cloak.
> The voice went oan, "I am the God o Abraham, Isaac an Jacob. Ah've seen
> the sufferin o ma people in Egypt, an I am taking them oot o that land.
> You, Moses, will lead them aw inty a land flowin wi milk and honey.'
> Moses gulped, 'Ah, Lord...eh, n-no me. Ah'm no fit tae dae that. Ye ken
> ah've got a k-k-kinna stutter an ah canny speak awfy weel.'"
>
> from Jamie Stuart, "A Glasgow Bible."
>
> David Ritchie,
> Beyond the Clyde's West
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