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To: Jeff Head
Jeff.....

I'm not familiar with the following..

"Go with them twain.".....

What does that mean?

9 posted on 01/17/2008 4:39:34 PM PST by Osage Orange (Hillary's heart is blacker, than the devils riding boots.................)
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To: Osage Orange; Jeff Head

In the time of the Roman occupation of Jerusalem and the Middle East it was custom for a Roman soldier to command a Jewish boy or young man to carry his ‘kit’ for a specified distance. This was like a law which Jesish men/youngmen had to follow. The saying ‘twain’ refers to ‘go the extra mile’, carry the kit for two not just the required one.


12 posted on 01/17/2008 4:49:20 PM PST by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: Osage Orange; Jeff Head
"Go with them twain.".....What does that mean?

I believe it's something like "if a man forces you to walk a mile in his moccasins, walk two miles. That way, you're even further away from him then he wanted, and you've managed to keep his shoes, too."

19 posted on 01/17/2008 7:42:15 PM PST by Alex Murphy ("Therefore the prudent keep silent at that time, for it is an evil time." - Amos 5:13)
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