> > There are many websites that make the following claim: Silver is > also mentioned in the Bible where royalty carried water in silver vessels > in the belief that this water would help them > maintain their health. ( > http://www.angelfire.com/folk/naturalife/collsilv.html > and http://www.island.net/~zapper/Colloidal%20Silver.html are just > two examples.
Yeah? Websites copying rubbish off each other again? First misquote, then copy misquote. It looks to me as if the angelfire site may have misquoted the island site. Who are the other many sites that blindly quote a misquote, then? The island site says: Silver is mentioned in the Bible. Royalty carried water in silver vessels in the belief that this water would help them maintain their health. Before refrigeration a silver dollar was placed in containers of milk to maintain freshness. Three separate statements. 1. Silver is mentioned in the Bible. 2. Royalty carried water in silver vessels in the belief that this water would help them maintain their health. (Which royalty? No examples given. European?) 32. Before refrigeration a silver dollar was placed in containers of milk to maintain freshness. So I'm sorry, Angelfire loses points both for misquoting someone else's site and for trying to make it sound as if the Bible supports use of silver for health without either knowing what it says or looking it up. The Bible does not say that royalty carried water in silver vessels IN THE BELIEF THAT this water would etc. They may well have carried water in silver vessels. They may well have believed that this, or any other, water would keep them healthy - more, keep them alive, indeed! There are some 379 references to silver in the Bible. Lots of them are to do with silver bowls and vessels. Lists of who had or donated what, when, and where. None of them say anything like "And the king ordered that water be placed in silver vessels in order that the health of his royal household might be maintained." Most of them are just descriptions of the vessels. Other vessels were gold or copper. Then they had wineskins, didn't they, and earthenware jars? The contents of all of which no doubt kept them alive and healthy. Less mundane silver references? - lots of them have negative connotations. As already quoted, Belshazzar's misuse of temple goods, when silver gods were praised, too. (There was also the vision of the idol with breast & arms of silver). And Joseph's ploy of having the silver cup put in the sack of grain. Although silver gets good press too, there are things like: (From Isaiah) Your silver itself has become scummy dross. Your wheat beer is diluted with water. Your princes are stubborn and partners with thieves. Every one of them is a lover of a bribe and a chaser after gifts ............. In that day the earthling man will throw his worthless gods of silver and his valueless gods of gold that they had made for him to bow before to the shrewmice and to the bats .......... Here I am arousing against them the Medes, who account silver itself as nothing and who, as respects gold, take no delight in it (going on to say they would destroy Babylon). ........ For in that day they will reject each one his worthless gods of silver and his valueless gods of gold - (followed by the promise of restoration to the effect that in place of iron, there would come to be silver). Deuteronomy: And YOU used to see their disgusting things and their dungy idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, that were with them;.... And you kept decking yourself with gold and silver, .....And you would take your beautiful articles from my gold and from my silver that I had given to you and you would make for yourself images of a male and prostitute yourself with them........ Much scummy dross, [that of] silver, they have become. .......... As in collecting silver (in furnace)....so I shall collect [them] together in my anger and in my rage, and I will blow and cause YOU people to liquefy. ... As in the liquefying of silver in the midst of a furnace, so YOU people will be liquefied in the midst of her Judges: to persuade Delilah to betray Sampson, she was offered by each of the enemy one thousand one hundred silver pieces." Proverbs paraphrase: Wisdom and discernment better than silver and gold. A good name better than riches and favor better than silver and gold. .... Remove the dross from the silver and it will come forth refined. .... A word at the right time is like apples of gold in silver carvings. .... Fervent lips along with a bad heart are like silver glazing on an earthenware fragment. Ezekiel prophesied that they would throw their silver into the streets and abhor their gold, neither of which would be able to save them in the day of God's fury. Matt: Do not procure gold or silver or copper for YOUR girdle purses, or a food pouch for the trip, or two undergarments, or sandals or a staff; for the worker deserves his food Acts: May your silver perish with you, because you thought through money to get possession of the free gift of God. ...... The magical arts books that were burned were worth fifty thousand pieces of silver. . The effect of silver is enough on its own. It doesn't need to misuse a book of truth to add lustre to its beauty. R -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
