{"id":43689,"date":"2025-06-02T10:36:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T10:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exciting-knuth.178-32-140-152.plesk.page\/?p=43689"},"modified":"2025-07-25T09:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T09:43:12","slug":"the-exegetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/good-night\/the-exegetes\/","title":{"rendered":"The exegetes"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>A famous biblical scholar had invited a group of colleagues to his home. They sat around a table that had a magnificent vase of flowers in the middle and began to argue over a page of the Bible. They argued animatedly, breaking down every word, hypothesising ancient roots, conjecturing, postulating, comparing, distilling, historicising, demythologising, psychologising, feminising\u2026<br \/>They could agree on almost nothing.<br \/>Suddenly the host interrupted the discussion and turned to one of the guests who was taking flowers from the vase in the middle of the table and systematically destroying them.<br \/>\u201cWhat are you doing?\u201d<br \/>\u201cI am counting the whorls, dividing the stamens and pistils, setting aside stalks and filaments\u2026\u201d<br \/>\u201cThis scientific zeal does you credit, but you are ruining all the beauty of these beautiful flowers!\u201d<br \/>The man smiled bitterly: \u201cThat is exactly what you are doing.\u201d<br \/><br \/><br \/><em>Rabbi Elimelekh had delivered a wonderful sermon on the art of living. Full of enthusiasm, the listeners joyfully accompanied him as he took the carriage back to his village.<br \/>At one point, the rabbi brought the carriage to a halt and asked the driver to go ahead without him as he mingled with the people.<br \/>\u201cWhat an example of humility!\u201d said one of his disciples.<br \/>\u201cHumility has nothing to do with it,\u201d replied Elimelekh. \u201cHere people walk happily, sing, drink wine, chat, make new friends, and all thanks to an old rabbi who came to speak on the art of living. So I prefer to leave my theories in the carriage and enjoy the party.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A famous biblical scholar had invited a group of colleagues to his home. They sat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":43692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[1661,2630,1745,2627],"class_list":["post-43689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-night","tag-bible","tag-church","tag-councils","tag-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44153,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43689\/revisions\/44153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}