More Against the Days

[David Morris]

So the gist of this phrase has to do with an answer or response (or
preparation) to a future foreseen event.  Right?

"With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a
time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic
fecklessness, and evil intent in high places."

That worldwide disaster (WW1) wasn't foreseen, was it?  So in this
sense the phrase "against the day" would imply a causal action
resulting in the "day."

Or what am I missing?

David

On 10/17/06, Jasper Fidget <jasper at hatguild.org> wrote:
> King James Bible:
> Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of
> battle and war?
> Job 38:23
>
> The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the
> LORD.
> Proverbs 21:31
>
> Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she
> kept this.
> John 12:7
>
> But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself
> wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment
> of God;
> Romans 2:5
>
> But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept
> in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition
> of ungodly men.
> 2 Peter 3:7
>
> So saying, with delight he snuff'd the smell
> Of mortal change on Earth. As when a flock
> Of ravenous Fowl, though many a League remote,
> Against the day of Battel, to a Field,
> Where Armies lie encampt, come flying, lur'd
> With sent of living Carcasses design'd
> For death, the following day, in bloodie fight.
> Milton, Paradise Lost IX:272-8
>
> "But according to the hardness of thy heart and thy impenitent heart,
> thou treasurest up for thyself wrath against the day of wrath and of the
> revelation of the just judgment of God, who will render unto every one
> according to his works." -Augustine, On the Nature of Good
>
>


-- 
David Morris