Does anyone know this Bacon citation?

I’m trying to stash some sources for the day I write the introduction of my dissertation and this would be a great addition.

This book is “Ecology and Theology of Nature,” edited by Hogan, Vila-Chã, and Orobator

Spring time means fresh flower arrangements!

Sending spring your way!

Just picked this up on Wednesday, anyone read this series before?

I finally did it. The vibes over there were terrible.

my FIL is a confirmed existentialist

Now look in v. 17 where we see blue, green, and orange notes all together. The Lord acts on Abram’s wife, Sarai’s, account and strikes Pharaoh’s family.

Here, the text turns the story on its head.

Now, Abram is not benefiting on Sarai’s account, *she* is. God’s vengeance is for her sake.

Now look at the one yellow note—“princes” in English, but “sarei” in Hebrew.

This is SO CLOSE TO SAYING HER NAME that the difference is in ONE VOWEL.

Now look at the pink. These are pronouns that refer to Sarai.

But their consonants are those of the 3MS pronoun, which would be “he/him.”

The Masoretes provide the vowels for the 3FS pronoun so that we know it should be read as “she/her” referring to Sarai.

In orange, I’ve noted all the places Sarai is referred to as “wife” or “woman” (the same word in Hebrew).

Compare this to the green, which shows where her name is used.

Sarai is referred to as “wife/woman” 10x & only called by her name twice, neither time by another character—only by the narrator

In blue, I’ve noted the places that we have “on account of” or “because of.”

All but one (v. 17) refer to Abram benefiting from Sarai marrying Pharaoh. We’ll come back to this.

When I translatied Gen 12 with my Hebrew class last spring, Sarai’s story struck me.

And sadly, hers is a story we hear too often: men prosper on account of the women they’ve hurt, tucked neatly away, and silenced.

The Hebrew portrays this dynamic so vividly!

Ps 104 is breathtaking, but one of my favorite things about it is that the psalmist speaks of the interior life of animals and nature the way we’d speak of human interior life!

If you read these verses outside of context, you’d think the psalm was about humanity!