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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Kalonji: [QB] [QUOTE] If just the color of whiteness were all that it refers to then snow would have been sufficient alone. By using wool the writer intentionally invokes not just color but texture. There's no hair the texture of snow. There is hair the texture of lamb's wool. At its best snow can only reiterate the whiteness of lamb's wool. [/QUOTE]Al Takruri What the authors intentions were will never be known to us so that is just your interpretation. You're actually wrong in assuming that because the author uses two metaphors for describing one thing, one of the metaphors must automatically refer to hair texture. Just assuming this is unscientific and furthermore. I'ts actually Hebrew tradition to use two metaphors for the same thing as evidenced in: [QUOTE] 1.Can an Ethiopian change the color of his skin? 2.Can a leopard take away its spots? Jeremiah 13:23 "I am black but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, 1.as the tents of kedar 2.as the curtains of Solomon." Song of Solomon 1:5 I saw 1.the tents of Cushan in distress 2.the dwellings of Midian in anguish. Habakkuk 3:7 [/QUOTE]Furthermore, the writer in revelations clearly says he recieved a vision, centuries after Daniel!! He was not copying off Daniel. He might have been, but then he would be lying. See for yourself: [QUOTE] Revelation 1:10 On the Lord's Day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet, which said: "Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea." . . . . Revelation 1:14 His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire. [/QUOTE]Again, utilising the often used double metaphor: His head and hair were 1.white like wool, 2.as white as snow, Wheter he also saw a wool-like texture, I don't know, but its clear he isn't mentioning it, and neither does Daniel. I beheld till thrones were placed, and one that was ancient of days did sit: his raiment was as white snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; Yes, like pure wool, but like what ASPECT of pure wool? He doesn't mention here what aspect is similar. Wool has many proporties, including color, texture, curliness, density, soft/hardness etc For exemple: I can say a child looks like his father, and you can assume I say that because they both have broad faces, but I didn't say that at all. I just made a statement without being specific I could be talking about similar hair length I could be talking about similarities in noses But the fact is, you wouldn't know because I didn't mention the specifics. What do you think of the above? Again, I'm not looking for being right just trying to point some things out, I'm here to learn [/QB][/QUOTE]
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