When a bible commentary tells you to go to bed
Plodding through Charles Wanamaker's superb NIGTC commentary on the Epistles to the Thessalonians I saw my own name in the middle of the page – in a book published well before I had even begun my undergraduate degree!:
"... for the coming of Christ. Trilling (330f.) claims that it means ..." (p. 279)
Well, I thought I had seen my name.
But why had I seen it? Tiredness? Shameless ego-tripping married to pattern recognition? Prophetic insight? A messianic complex? I leave you to decide.
posted by Chris Tilling @ 1:58 AM
6 comments
6 Comments:
It depends on your reaction to seeing your name. Was your first instinct, "oh no! what did he say about me?"
Definitely self obsession ... and I thought your post was going to be about sex!
My brother has you beat. He was courting his wife and at Christmas time he convinced the minister of her Anglican church to let him appear from the front at the singing of 'O come, O come Emmanuel'. But he's always been the cheeky one in the Emanuel family!
Frank, that is phenomenal!!
Steph, me thinks you misjudged me! I am of purer heart and mind than that!
Well, Brandon, I think it was 'ABOUT TIME I GOT RECOGNITION FOR MY GENIUS'. Is that wrong?
Yes - it is I who am impure and depraved...
Oh, great, you didn't post a spoiler notice. I'm half a page behind you. Now the suspense is just ruined!
Is Charles Wanamaker also among the prophets, then?
Chuck Grantham
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