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dreamer_easy) wrote2008-09-19 11:58 am
dreamer_easy) wrote2008-09-19 11:58 am
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House S4 random Bible study lol
... finally arrived thanks to my DVD rent-by-mail thingy. Weirdly, House keeps reminding me of Jeremy Clarkson.
House needs a non-drinker as the control for a life-saving test, and needs to persuade a dedicated Mormon to down shots of tequila. Mocked by House for his beliefs, the guy refuses, and then House challenges him: "Would you pull an ass out of a pit on the Sabbath?" Well, I had to know what that was all about, and it's this bit of common sense from Luke 14 (NIV):
House needs a non-drinker as the control for a life-saving test, and needs to persuade a dedicated Mormon to down shots of tequila. Mocked by House for his beliefs, the guy refuses, and then House challenges him: "Would you pull an ass out of a pit on the Sabbath?" Well, I had to know what that was all about, and it's this bit of common sense from Luke 14 (NIV):
One Sabbath, when Jesus went to eat in the house of a prominent Pharisee, he was being carefully watched. There in front of him was a man suffering from dropsy. Jesus asked the Pharisees and experts in the law, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?" But they remained silent. So taking hold of the man, he healed him and sent him away. Then he asked them, "If one of you has a son or an ox that falls into a well on the Sabbath day, will you not immediately pull him out?" And they had nothing to say.Instead of "son", explains a footnote, some manuscripts have "donkey", and indeed many other Bible versions have "ass". (Which in itself is fascinating - how do you work out which is the correct one?) A similar principle operates in Jewish law - the responsibility to heal a patient outranks almost every other law.