MARKINGS
We see most of the popular athletes and movie stars putting all manner of markings and prints on themselves.And allot of our young people are following in the same direction,they follow they don't know what! So I thought that it is important to share this thought with all who view this blog.........Is it not a still shame for a woman to be baring herself to be painted?....
1 Cor 6:1919.... "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?"(KJV)
Why are so unhappy about our bodies when God has made us with love?....."Ps 139:1414..... I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well".(KJV)
Leviticus 19:28
"Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD."
"Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD."
Leviticus 19:28
[Any cuttings in your flesh for the dead] That the ancients were very violent in their grief, tearing the hair and face, beating the breast, etc., is well known. Virgil represents the sister of Dido "tearing her face with her nails, and beating her breast with her fists." "Unguibus ora soror faedans, et pectora pugnis." AEn., l. iv., ver. 672. [Nor print any marks upon you] It was a very ancient and a very general custom to carry marks on the body in honour of the object of their worship. All the castes of the Hindus bear on their foreheads or elsewhere what are called the sectarian marks, which distinguish them, not only in a civil but also in a religious point of view, from each other. Most of the barbarous nations lately discovered have their faces, arms, breasts, etc., curiously carved or tatooed, probably for superstitious purposes. Ancient writers abound with accounts of marks made on the face, arms, etc., in honour of different idols; and to this the inspired penman alludes,, where false worshippers are represented as receiving in their hands and in their forehead the marks of the beast. These were called stigmata (grk 4742) among the Greeks, and to these Paul refers when he says, I bear about in my body the MARKS (stigmata) of the Lord Jesus; . I have seen several cases where persons have got the figure of the cross, the virgin Mary, etc., made on their arms, breasts, etc., the skin being first punctured, and then a blue colouring matter rubbed in, which is never afterward effaced. All these were done for superstitious purposes, and to such things probably the prohibition in this verse refers. Calmet, on this verse, gives several examples. See also Mariner's Tonga Islands, vol. i. p. 311-313.(from Adam Clarke Commentary)
[Any cuttings in your flesh for the dead] That the ancients were very violent in their grief, tearing the hair and face, beating the breast, etc., is well known. Virgil represents the sister of Dido "tearing her face with her nails, and beating her breast with her fists." "Unguibus ora soror faedans, et pectora pugnis." AEn., l. iv., ver. 672. [Nor print any marks upon you] It was a very ancient and a very general custom to carry marks on the body in honour of the object of their worship. All the castes of the Hindus bear on their foreheads or elsewhere what are called the sectarian marks, which distinguish them, not only in a civil but also in a religious point of view, from each other. Most of the barbarous nations lately discovered have their faces, arms, breasts, etc., curiously carved or tatooed, probably for superstitious purposes. Ancient writers abound with accounts of marks made on the face, arms, etc., in honour of different idols; and to this the inspired penman alludes,
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