MDMD snip sheep

[Terrance]

Luke: 15.4 What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of
them, doth not
leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is
lost, until he
find it?

These pastoral parables were very popular during the period were reading
about.  

We can trace this idea of the sheep, lost sheep, Israel, all over the
bible. But I think one thing that P is up to, is drawing a very sharp
distinction between the New Testament and The Old Testament. The Old is
represented here by Sodom and Slavery and patriarchal oppression, Lot's
daughters, Jethro's tent, Job's wife...even Calvinism... etc., while the
New is commingled (like how Catholicism--a child's religion full of
magic and rites and paganism's was and is  mixed with many African
religions and Indian/Chinese religions, also the fragment from Sappho
would fit here) with the African and Eastern. 


Jesus preached that he was the gate in the wall, the good shepherd. This
was, like drink my blood, blasphemy, and he was pelted with rocks fro
saying such things, eventually he was, hung, not at tyburn, and he was
resurrected, again not 'resurrected' by medical students or grave
robbers. At least that's the religion of it.


Terrance wrote:
> 
> John Bailey wrote:
> >
> > And what's with the lonely sheep cowering by the wall? Is the sheep the
> > 'Snip' which demands Mason chase it? And if so, why does he?
> 
> The Snip is Els.  She's my favorite minor character thus far. Fun little
> girl.
> The sheep is another subtle and "slick" biblical allusion--Jesus. And we
> will be hearing from Wesley again. Dixon goes to hear one of his famous
> sermons--riots.