More Against the Days

[Jasper Fidget]

I'm not sure the day must be foreseen, merely its potential.  I think
the phrase is equivalent to "in the eventuality of".

On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 10:47 -0500, David Morris wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> 
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