8 A. So,
your Honour, you will notice there is an asterisk
9 there on
the term "rod", and you see the footnote.
10
11 Q. Yes.
12 A.
"Discipline or punishment". So in the application of
13 this, the
term "rod" is used as a symbol or a metaphor to
14 indicate
the authority to give some punishment. For
15 example,
in a modern‐day setting, my father could say to me
16 I don't
go to the movies because I had broken some of the
17 rules of
the home.
18
19 Q. So
it's not about inflicting corporal punishment,
20 then?
21 A. It
absolutely is not about inflicting corporal
22
punishment.
23
24 Q. It
would have been when first written, wouldn't it?
25 A. How
people applied it back then, at that time, of
26 course is
open to question.
There is no way in hell that when Proverbs 13:34 was written, "rod" was metaphorical in nature. We are talking about a culture that actually stoned disobedient ones.
“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the
voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they
discipline him, will not listen to them, then his father and his mother
shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at
the gate of the place where he lives, and they shall say to the elders
of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey
our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the city
shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from
your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
Would it be far fetched to believe that those who would willingly stone someone for their rebelliousness would not also unleash the rod on their children as well?
Nice try GJ.
