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Samson's (and perhaps Samuel's) Nazarite Vow

So I read that the common opinion is that Samson managed to break all three of his Nazarite vows; The abstinence of wine from the wedding ceremony, touching the donkey's jawbone and eating honey out of the corpse of a lion, and then finally his haircut.

But that middle one, simply touching a dead animal..If that broke one of his Nazarite vows, does that mean that to keep these vows he would have to be a vegetarian? Was Samuel then a vegetarian? I can't to seem to find anything on this

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u/AccordingAdvance5640 — 3 days ago
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In need of prayers, please

Hello all, bad news and in need of a lot of prayers; My wife Rebecca has been in remission from an aggressive breast cancer for some time now, and her last blood test showed her cancer antigens are through the roof (for most patients, this means it's back). Waiting to learn what to do now

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u/AccordingAdvance5640 — 11 days ago
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Sting Theory +1

I really liked that earlier theory from No_Imagination5705, about Sting being Glorfindel's dirk, so I felt like sharing my own "headcanon" too;

I always imagined Sting was Sador/Labadal's knife, since it's being of great worth makes it more likely to have come from Gondolin, and it's connection with pity can't be discounted:

Page 46 of my version of Children of Hurin: "The word is true that you have heard: I (Hurin) have been there (Gondolin). But I tell you now truly, as I have told no other, and will not: I do not know where it stands."

Page 48 "On the Morning of Turin's birthday, Hurin gave his son a gift, and Elf-wrought knife, the hilt and the sheath were silver and black.."

Page 49 "[After Turin regifts his knife to Sador] This is a gift indeed; a blade of elven steel. Long have I missed the feel of it" later "So you scorn your father's gift?" said Morwen, and Turin answered "No, but I love Sador, and I am sorry for him." Then Hurin said "All three gifts were your own to give, Turin: love, pity, and the knife the least." "Yet I doubt if Sador deserves them," said Morwen..."Give him pity nonetheless" said Hurin."

https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Sador

u/AccordingAdvance5640 — 16 days ago
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What's the oldest or rarest Bible that you own?

What's the oldest or rarest Bible that you own?

I just think these look really cool in a collection, like an intersection of theology and history (the book's history), and would love to see what everyone has!

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u/AccordingAdvance5640 — 23 days ago