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Is there anything Biblical in the line "I will come to you in the simplest things"????
Would really appreciate some help!!!!!

2006-10-09 20:55:55 · 4 answers · asked by Kate M 2 in Education & Reference Quotations

4 answers

That does not appear to approximate a quote in any common versions of the Bible. The closest passage I can find to this meaning is below and from the KJV. Here, simplicity is translated from the Greek word transliterated as haplotes. It implies sincerity, openness, liberty, and generosity, rather than our common notion of simplicity today which might imply dullness of mind.

2 Corinthians 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

2006-10-11 11:32:09 · answer #1 · answered by Yahoo!_Points_Whore 2 · 4 0

If you are asking if this paraphrased quote originates in a Biblical passage, it appears not. However! Here's what I have come across:

MEDIATION by R.S. THOMAS

And to one God says; Come
to me by numbers and figures;
see my beauty
in the angles between
stars; in the equations
of my kingdom. Bring
your lenses to the worship
of my dimensions; far
out and far in, there
is always more of me
in proportion. And to another:
I am the bush burning
at the centre of
your existence: you must put
your knowledge off and come
to me with your mind
bare.

And to this one
he says: Because of
your high stomach, the bleakness
of your emotions, I
will come to you in the simplest
things, in the body
of a man hung on a tall
tree you have converted to
timber and you shall not know me.

From Wikipedia:

Ronald Stuart Thomas (29 March 1913 – 25 September 2000) (published as R. S. Thomas) was a Welsh poet and Anglican Clergyman, noted for his nationalism and spirituality. He was the best known Welsh poet of his day.

2006-10-10 13:38:13 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 2 0

I don't think this is Biblical... although common Christian thought is that God speaks in whispers... there is an Old Testament Story of God speaking to a prophet (Elijah) in the gentle whisper when the prophet was expecting to see him in the fire and Thunder that preceded the whisper... but I don't think you'll find your quote in the Bible.

2006-10-10 04:37:38 · answer #3 · answered by In the light 3 · 2 0

Nope.

2006-10-10 13:41:24 · answer #4 · answered by Bethany 6 · 1 0

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