Look up Isaiah 42.14; 66.13.Benway wrote: ↑Thu Jan 31, 2019 5:45 pmTrue. I'd never go so far as be certain about it. Still, the mother hen analogy seems more general than a human breast feeding analogy. I don't know the Isaiah reference. If you remember or anybody else can help I'd be interested.Ben C. Smith wrote: ↑Thu Jan 31, 2019 5:09 pmIsaiah attributes maternal qualities to God somewhere (working from memory here). Also, Jesus compares himself to a mother hen in Luke 13.34. I am not sure this kind of metaphor necessarily suggests anything about the sex of the speaker.
Did Paul write any of 1 Corinthians 5?
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Re: Did Paul write any of 1 Corinthians 5?
I can only see ones which are parallels. Are there any non-parallels?
There are other places where maternal qualities are attributed to God:Benway wrote: That's a pretty graphic mother metaphor in which the Corinthians are babies being breast fed by the writer. That's a pretty odd thing for Paul or any man to think of writing, isn't it?
Deuteronomy 32:18
You were unmindful of the Rock that begot you,
and you forgot the God who gave you birth.
Isaiah 49:15
"Can a woman forget her sucking child,
that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb?
Even these may forget,
yet I will not forget you
Psalm 131:2
But I have calmed and quieted my soul,
like a child quieted at its mother's breast;
like a child that is quieted is my soul.