The word ‘curse’ or ‘cursed’ appears 4 times in the prologue to the book (Chap 1&2).
The Hebrew word used in theses instances is barak which actually means bless.
I wonder what the author was attempting to say.
What is blessing? What is cursing?
“Do you still hold fast to your integrity, curse (or bless) God and die!” - Job’s wife
To be ‘blessed’ are we really cursed? and to be ‘cursed’ are we really blessed?
Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall laugh.
Blessed are you when men hate you, and ostracize you, and insult you, and scorn your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of Man.
...But woe to you who are rich, for you shall be hungry.
Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.
Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for their fathers used to treat the false prophets in the same way.
Luke 6:21-22, 24-26
wow nay, that is impressively ingenious! I reckon it sounds about right too... 'it is harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven than fitting a camel through the eye of a needle.'
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