Come on, Pete.
Stong's defines "the thousand" (τὰ χίλια) - 'thousand' is
chilioi. This means, according to Strong's, "plural of uncertain affinity; a thousand --thousand." It appears 11 times in 10 verses -- and is always translated "thousand" in the KJV. And according to Ted and Joe, we can just use this regardless of Old Testament or New Testament -- thousand means the same thing. Thus, God owning the cattle on a thousand hills, must mean an endless number of hills.
Even as אֶלֶף (
'elep̄) in Hebrew only means:
thousand (500x),
eleven hundred (with H3967) (3x),
variant (1x),
twelve hundred (with H3967) (1x). Hmm. 1,000 used 500 times. Variant used once. And in the KJV of the bible, this variant usage....is NEVER used. Go ahead, click on it. I left this links in to the Blue Letter Bible word tools.
But, Ted and Joe have NEVER been wrong on such things. So lets hammer their message home, shall we, so that heathens like you and I can understand better.
Genesis 24:60
They blessed Rebekah with these words:
“Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands of ten thousands!
May your descendants possess the strongholds of their enemies.”
Not enough to say she will become the mother of an endless number, it must be said that she will be the mother of an endless of ten times endless number of descendants. Wow.
Numbers 10:36
And when it came to rest he would say, “Return, O Lord, to the many thousands of Israel!”
The Lord should return to the "many endless number" of Israelites. Why not just "the thousand" like the hills of Psalms?
1 Samuel 18:7
“Saul has struck down his thousands,
but David his tens of thousands!”
Saul struck down endlesses. Plural of endless. I'm still trying to work out the plural of "uncertain affinity." How many affinities do we have? (I know I'm mixing Hebrew and Greek, but Ted and Joe imply that this is ok by comparing Rev 20:3 with Ps 50:10.)
Psalm 91:7
Though a thousand may fall beside you,
and a multitude on your right side,
it will not reach you.
Ahh, Psalm 91 -- the chapter that killed my wife with its promises -- we have an endless number "may fall beside you, and a multitude on your right side." The second bunch is the word רְבָבָה (
rᵊḇāḇâ) and means "multitude, myriad, ten thousand." So why don't we use the same word? Why not "ten thousand" in both cases? Well, perhaps they mean different things. Maybe "a thousand" means a thousand. Oh my, no! Ted and Joe say that it does NOT mean a thousand.
And my oh my.
Oh my.
Matthew 14:13-21 -- I'll only quote v21 out of the story of five loaves and two fish
Not counting women and children, there were about 5,000 men who ate.
Five TIMES an endless number. There must be BILLIONS of people on that hill. At least BILLIONS!! At least -- according to Ted and Joe's hermeneutic (Ted did say there another "billions of cattle and hills").
For all uses of 1,000 must, Must, MUST be used consistently.
(Yes, I looked this up too. It is the word
pentakischilioi which is a word that combines
pentakis and
chilioi (hmm, where'd we see this latter word before in my post?) Yup, two words that respectively mean: five times, and thousand -- or as Ted and Joe would have it, endless. Yup, five times endlessness. That's a lot!)
Gee, I wonder how many Apostles there really were since 12 likely means something else.
Oh, and I wonder why Psalm 50:10 couldn't have mentioned that God owns the cattle on a thousand hills and somehow, maybe, that is not a limit and he indeed does own the cattle on all the rest of the hills. But maybe, just maybe, a thousand is such a large number to the Israelites, that they know God owns a lot. I mean like everything.
Nah, if the verse says "a thousand" and doesn't mention the rest, we need to
literally apply the
symbolism ONLY to these thousand.
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