Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: harling@pictel.uucp (Dan Harling) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Double entendre when walking twain? Message-ID: Date: 7 Jun 91 03:13:31 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: PictureTel Corporation Lines: 24 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article lcrew@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Louie Crew) writes: >In several sermons I have heard in the last couple of years, preachers have >cited a scholar who argues that "walking the second mile" and "turning of the >other cheek" in their original context had more irony that we can discern in >a casual reading. My memory is fuzzy, but I believe that going >the second mile was meant to expose the guy for demanding something >unfair of you in the first place... It is my understanding that, in the Roman world, a civilian could be ordered to carry a soldier's pack for him, over a distance of no more than one mile. After that, the civilian was no longer under obligation. For a Jew to voluntarily continue to help a representative of his Roman oppressors would be quite an example of "loving one's enemies." > Louie Crew ______________________________________________________________________ Daniel A. Harling PictureTel, Inc. Rockport, MA Peabody, MA Opinions expressed herein are not necessarily those of PictureTel, Inc.; they are MINE, ALL MINE! (So there.) ---- === ====