Twain's Tom Sawyer comes up with the first two of these verses in a Sunday School debacle, as I remember.
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, David Wilson-Okamura wrote: > At 02:26 PM 8/4/99 +0100, Helen Conrad-O'Briain wrote: > >It seems from the response that the sortes have dies out - or are people to > >shy to discuss their present day use? > > The following story may be apocryphal; as I recall, it was recounted by my > sixth-grade teacher as an admonition AGAINST using the Bible in this way. > > A certain man was seeking divine guidance. Opening his Bible to a random > page, he let his finger find a random verse, and committed himself to doing > whatever that verse should indicate. As providence had it, his finger fell > on Matthew 27.5, which records of Judas that "throwing down the pieces of > silver in the temple...he went and hanged himself." Sure that there had > been some mistake, the man tried another verse. This time his finger found > Luke 10.37: "And Jesus said to him, 'Go and do likewise.'" By this time, > the man was getting anxious. He decided, therefore, to try one last time, > and promised himself that this time he really would follow through on > whatever the verse directed him to do. Unfortunately, the next verse was > John 13.27: "Jesus said to him, 'What you are going to do, do quickly.'" > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > David Wilson-Okamura http://geoffreychaucer.org > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chaucer: an annotated guide to online resources > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. > Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message > "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You > can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
