This morning I was reading both the Bible and a selection about Michael Faraday in "Archimedes to Hawking" (which has now been relegated to an occasional chapter book instead of reading straight through) and was amused by the coincidence of these two passages:
"In 1844 Faraday was suspended as an elder of the Sandemanian Church for missing a single Sunday service--the only time he missed a service in his entire life! When he explained that he had been dining with Queen Victoria, the church elders cared little for his flimsy excuse." A-H pg. 275
From my morning Bible readings:
" At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.” He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? Or have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless? I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”" (Matthew 12:1-8, ESV)
I don't imagine the elders at Faraday's church would not have liked Jesus much if they had met him in the flesh. :-)
"In 1844 Faraday was suspended as an elder of the Sandemanian Church for missing a single Sunday service--the only time he missed a service in his entire life! When he explained that he had been dining with Queen Victoria, the church elders cared little for his flimsy excuse." A-H pg. 275
From my morning Bible readings:
" At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.” He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? Or have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless? I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”" (Matthew 12:1-8, ESV)
I don't imagine the elders at Faraday's church would not have liked Jesus much if they had met him in the flesh. :-)
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