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Last Wednesday night at church several people in the row in front of me got into an argument about whether angels ever have six wings. Kimi thought they did, but her husband thought they didn't. Kimi vaguely remembered a passage she'd read somewhere in the old testament about angels with six wings...
...and from somewhere in the recesses of my mind words came to me that I had memorized a long, long time ago in seventh grade Bible School. Isaiah 6:
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
That is some of the most poetic and magestic language I've heard in a good while. No wonder it stayed with me.
(I was Kimi's heroine for the evening; I'm not sure her husband liked me that much, though. *grin*)
...and from somewhere in the recesses of my mind words came to me that I had memorized a long, long time ago in seventh grade Bible School. Isaiah 6:
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
That is some of the most poetic and magestic language I've heard in a good while. No wonder it stayed with me.
(I was Kimi's heroine for the evening; I'm not sure her husband liked me that much, though. *grin*)