8/14/16
2 Samuel 9
Suvya Carroll & Greg Little
“Francis, at the time or somewhere about the time when he disappeared into the prison or the dark cavern, underwent a reversal of a certain psychological kind…The man who went into the cave was not the man who came out again…He looked at the world as differently from other men as if he had come out of that dark hole walking on his hands…This state can only be represented in symbol; but the symbol of inversion is true in another way. If a man saw the world upside down, with all the trees and towers hanging head downwards as in a pool, one effect would be to emphasize the idea of dependence. There is a Latin and literal connection; for the very word dependence only means hanging. It would make vivid the Scriptural text which says that God has hung the world upon nothing.” -G.K. Chesterton (biography of Saint Francis of Assisi)
Scripture
This Sunday’s Songs
All Ye Refugees, McCracken
Pass Us Not O Gentle Savior, Crosby/Doane
He Knows My Name, Walker
Let The Praise the Name of the Lord, Harris/Crawford
River Where Mercy Flows, Miller
The Ninety and Nine, Clephane/Sankey
Further Reading on David
The Art of Biblical Narrative by Robert Alter
The David Story: A Translation of 1 & 2 Samuel by Robert Alter
1 Samuel as Christian Scripture by Stephen Chapman
1 Samuel (Word Biblical Commentary) by Ralph Klein
Leap Over A Wall: Earthly Spirituality for Everyday Christians by Eugene Peterson
