The Preferred
Heroic-Warrior,
Èlite-Nobilis,
Fanciful, ‘Harmless’ and
Profitable View:
Tolkien-Boyens-Jackson-Hill-Theoden: “Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. How did it come to this?” Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0000155/quotes
How the Titular Individual
Came to Remain in the West,
Cued through a Biblical Testimony
As Ridiculous Then as it is Now still New:
A certain man upon entering as a vision the sleep of the apostle Paul cried, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” And when Paul had seen the vision, immediately Silas and the others sought to go on into Macedonia, concluding that God had called them to preach the Gospel to them. Who would have us think like this to believe something like that? Acts 16:6, 7.
“Sing Silas, sing!”
A certain woman named Lydia sells purple fabrics. A lying spirit speaks through a slave girl to usurp truth’s rightful authority. Owners, Romans, the crowd and magistrates are stirred into unlawful action. And when they had inflicted many blows upon them, they threw them into prison, ordering the jailer to keep them safely. Having received this order, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.
“Sing Silas, sing!”
And the prisoners were listening to them.
“Sing Silas, sing!
Don’t look at the wind! The Lord is not in the wind, or the earthquake or the fire. For I have seen him, this man of Macedonia, in a vision. He who fastened our feet in these stocks is the man who cried out, ‘Come over to Macedonia and help us.’”
Do we understand? Will we listen? The man didn’t say, “me.” The Sower prepared the good soil of his heart for receiving the word of God. He said, “us”! Nonetheless, for yielding a crop a hundredfold he asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
So in the telling of the whole tale only one man from Macedonia, the jailer, is referred to in the singular.
Lord,
grant that
the anointing that
teaches us about everything
keeps us
willing to be rightly taught.
Whatever might be
the injustice,
the storm,
the earthquake or
the fire
that seeks to
harm us,
catch us,
crush us or
consume us,
may our fellow prisoners hear us
praying and singing hymns to God.
But what about the individual de jure?
How did the statutory individual come to be?
Please accept my sincerest apologies,
The closing of the loop took me elleswher.
Pick up the Bible to find this hinge
story in determining global history, and,
read it for yourself?
Acts 16:6-40.
