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[alpharaposa]

• 07:30 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with tongs. - Isaiah 6:6 #
• 07:30 @formidonis Sudafed is also very good! #
• 07:58 So tried... didn't sleep well last night.. #
• 17:51 You don't tug on Superman's cape. You don't spit into the wind. You don't pull the mask off of the Lone Ranger, and.. #
• 18:38 bit.ly/11i7rP #
• 18:41 Bad, Bad Leroy Brown... bit.ly/ACDq #
• 19:29 Y'know, I really like these songs... bit.ly/AebOl Thought the other guy was a girl until I saw the mustache, though. #
• 21:27 Tottering off to bed. Tired. #

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Comments

[cutelildrow.livejournal.com]

just ... noticed. if the seraphim could carry the burning coal in his hand, why did he take it from...the altar? not a brazier?... with tongs?

[stryck.livejournal.com]

I dunno.

All the implements would have been consecrated. Maybe that has something to do with it. Maybe it's just simpler to reach with tongs while you're flying.

Oh, and the altar was a place for burnt offerings - there were definitely coals there. Ancient Jews roasted whole cattle as offerings, after all.

[stryck.livejournal.com]

Altars were not small:

""And you shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar shall be square, and its height shall be three cubits." - Exodus 27:1

A cubit being approx. 18 inches, we're talking 7 1/2 feet.

Hmm. Maybe I should do the implements of the temple once I've finished with Isaiah's vision. They're astonishing.

[cutelildrow.livejournal.com]

ahhhh okay.

THREE cubits? that's around man height yes?

[stryck.livejournal.com]

A cubit is a little less than half a meter. Four cubits would be a reasonably tall man in today's world, close to 1.8 meters.

A cubit is the length from fingertip to elbow on a grown man.

I'm so used to English units, I forget conversion doesn't work so well outside the US.