PROEM & POEM No. 112 - Solomon's Ecclesiastical Slip / Part 4
Why would Solomon the sage observed so insightfully, wrote so illuminating, condemned so forthrightly, that is to have written that every man should…enjoy the good of all his labour (Ec 3:13), knowing so honestly his alter-ego Solomon the king would as before proactively tax, fine, license, toll, levy, confiscate, seize, conquer therefore plunder and more. If to discontinue, the Hebrew kingdom would have ceased to be, as existed and ruled by his father King David as well predecessor and founder King Saul. The lack of revenue, by cessation of politically forceful means, would have returned the domain to conditions that of the stateless era per book of Judges, between the conquest of Canaan per book of Joshua and the first anointed despot per first book of Samuel.
With that said, throughout history what king moral or immoral voluntarily relinquished power once acquired or inherited, without first threatened by his nobles’ swords or conquered by other kings’ armies? Nor did Solomon the king of course, although Solomon the sage noted otherwise by the pointed use of all, implying none of one’s labor should be taxed or confiscated, rather fully enjoyed by consuming, utilizing, storing, investing, bartering, selling, donating, etc. Noticeably, he did not state either conditions for or limits to enjoyment other than the simple yet quite encompassing three-letter adjective. Was the particular word a thoughtless mistake, unintentional typo (if you will), maybe drunkenly literary license even romantically philosophical consideration, oppose to temporary honesty, momentary conviction per transitory inspiration. If the latter, then the insertion of word thus assertion of thought were of such overwhelming compulsion, prompting Solomon to risk criticism upon appearing hypocritically unpredictable therefore opposition upon seeming politically vulnerable. In brief, it was not an ecclesiastical slip but empirical writ.
With that said, throughout history what king moral or immoral voluntarily relinquished power once acquired or inherited, without first threatened by his nobles’ swords or conquered by other kings’ armies? Nor did Solomon the king of course, although Solomon the sage noted otherwise by the pointed use of all, implying none of one’s labor should be taxed or confiscated, rather fully enjoyed by consuming, utilizing, storing, investing, bartering, selling, donating, etc. Noticeably, he did not state either conditions for or limits to enjoyment other than the simple yet quite encompassing three-letter adjective. Was the particular word a thoughtless mistake, unintentional typo (if you will), maybe drunkenly literary license even romantically philosophical consideration, oppose to temporary honesty, momentary conviction per transitory inspiration. If the latter, then the insertion of word thus assertion of thought were of such overwhelming compulsion, prompting Solomon to risk criticism upon appearing hypocritically unpredictable therefore opposition upon seeming politically vulnerable. In brief, it was not an ecclesiastical slip but empirical writ.
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By candle in room, as well antiquities’ moon `tween ivy
Hanging mid Friday’s tomb and Sunday’s womb, timely
As eternity careens while propensities preen envy and pride
Per mosaics across antediluvian porticos brined and dried
Worshipped as oracles, holy writ, lunacy all as oppugned
Praxeologically, consistently, ethically even divinely, soon
The “why” forgotten as knowledge trite moreover ill gotten
Rights then moralities conjured while the One is trodden
Trampled too by those herded, prodded by the demigods
Awed en masse, bawds at last, legs apart along esplanades
Spread wide by roughshod clowns then despot’s jesters
Truths unsound per the Truth academically sequestered
Hanging mid Friday’s tomb and Sunday’s womb, timely
As eternity careens while propensities preen envy and pride
Per mosaics across antediluvian porticos brined and dried
Worshipped as oracles, holy writ, lunacy all as oppugned
Praxeologically, consistently, ethically even divinely, soon
The “why” forgotten as knowledge trite moreover ill gotten
Rights then moralities conjured while the One is trodden
Trampled too by those herded, prodded by the demigods
Awed en masse, bawds at last, legs apart along esplanades
Spread wide by roughshod clowns then despot’s jesters
Truths unsound per the Truth academically sequestered
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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.
Copyright © 2019 by D.C. Quillan Stone
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