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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

I don’t think so. Locusts aren’t around all the time, carob beans can be stored. WHat’s he going to do, eat them alive? raw? cook in a fire?

THere have been many translations etc since the original, from what I’ve read, it means locust pods from the tree.


2,205 posted on 06/19/2022 7:13:51 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Never worry about anything. Worry never solved any problem or moved any stone.)
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To: little jeremiah

https://carm.org/about-the-bible/manuscript-evidence-for-superior-new-testament-reliability/


2,223 posted on 06/19/2022 9:53:47 AM PDT by SheepWhisperer (My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
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To: little jeremiah

The Gospel writers were well schooled in Greek.
The Holy Spirit inspired them to use the word meaning “locusts” (or “lobsters”).
They did not use the words that meant “seeds of the Carob tree”.
Research when the use of “Locust Tree” supplanted the use of the Latin ‘Carob’.

Hordes of destructive locusts were the result of massive population explosions of the resident locusts that were always around.

Your plea to “many and new” interpretations is simply revisionist history in itself and actually violates Scripture to imply it.

The Word of God is inspired and inerrant.


2,229 posted on 06/19/2022 10:26:31 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Islam is NOT a religion of any sort. It is a violent and tyrannical system of ruling others.)
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To: little jeremiah
Strong's Greek: 200. ἀκρίς (akris) -- a locust (biblehub.com)
2,231 posted on 06/19/2022 11:18:16 AM PDT by Keflavik76 (Don't want to be a brick in Babylons wall.)
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To: little jeremiah

I don’t know what is the right translation but here is info on eating locusts:

Swarming locusts: people used to eat them, but shouldn’t anymore
https://theconversation.com/swarming-locusts-people-used-to-eat-them-but-shouldnt-anymore-135058

Eating locusts: The crunchy, kosher snack taking Israel by swarm
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21847517


2,293 posted on 06/19/2022 5:57:26 PM PDT by Farcesensitive (K is coming)
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