#Eglon

[granonine]

Five to One

Joshua 10:1-4 Now it came to pass, when Adonizedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them; That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because…

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[diioonysus]

objects in art: swords/daggers

[7pleiades7]

Judith, (detail), (ca.1678) by Eglon Hendrik van der Neer (1634–1703), oil on oak, 32 × 24.6 cm, The National Gallery, London

[history-of-fashion]

1677 Eglon van der Neer - Lute player

(Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe)

[galleryofart]

Lady Playing a Lute in an Interior

Artist: Eglon van der Neer (Dutch, 1634/36-1703)

Date: 1675

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: The Leiden Collection, New York City, NY, United States

Description

Eglon van der Neer’s musician presents an elegant figure as she sits before stately architecture touched with gilt and partly masked by a swag of heavy curtain. She rests her elbow on a velvet-draped table crammed with costly objects, including a book of tablature, a flute, a rumpled satin cloth, a silver ewer, a marble (?) statue of a putto, and an open jewel casket. The woman herself is no less opulently packaged: she wears a fur-trimmed crimson house jacket over a shimmering white satin skirt and a bodice stiff with gold brocade. Emerging from the garments like Venus rising from the surf, the iridescent flesh of her plump arms and inviting décolletage is accentuated by the delicate frill of a white chemise. The young musician’s downcast gaze as she quietly listens to the sounds of her instrument help create the painting’s reflective mood and engaging character.

Taking full advantage of his meticulous technique, Van der Neer has carefully calculated every aspect of the painting to entice the senses of touch, sight and sound, and in so doing, to emphasize the inherent sensuality of the image itself. The deliberate juxtaposition of so many luxurious surface textures prompts admiration of the artist’s skill, and the accuracy of the illusion allows the viewer to dwell on the pleasurable aesthetic and sensorial qualities of the actual objects.5 Nowhere is this more seductively presented than in Van der Neer’s rendering of the woman’s soft flesh: in visually “touching” her flesh (as well as the other objects in the painting), we are led to consider the touch of her fingers upon the strings of the lute. We imagine the sweet sounds produced by her playing, which prompts us to summon pleasant recollections of our own musical experiences. The reverse is also true, of course: seeing her fingers dance across the lute strings prompts us to imagine our own fingers testing surfaces and textures so meticulously and sensually presented.

[oldsardens]

Eglon van der Neer (After) - The Drummer Boy

[whispersobliviate]

Judith, Eglon van der Neer

Telegram, Luisa Max-Ehrlerová

[babycharmander]

Blocking every single person who compares elron husk to Wheatley

Stop praising this man, what the crap is wrong with you people

[northemoonduringthenight]

"And he went out to wash his feet, and behold a monstrous fish came up to devour him. And Tobias being afraid of him, cried out with a loud voice, saying: Sir, he cometh upon me.

And the angel said to him: Take him by the gill, and draw him to thee. And when he had done so, he drew him out upon the land, and he began to pant before his feet.

Then the angel said to him: Take out the entrails of the fish, and lay up his heart, and his gall, and his liver for thee: for these are necessary for useful medicines."

Tobias 6:2-5 Douay-Rheims Bible.

Artwork: Eglon van der Neer (Dutch, 1635-1703) Tobias and the angel (1690).

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[bottegapowerpoint]

Eglon van der Neer, Young lady with puppy

[fictionadventurer]

I know you don't rely on religious arguments against abortion. But I thought I'd offer my two cents on when the body is "infused" with a soul. The term almost implies the soul exists before conception. If I'm not mistaken, Christianity doesn't teach the pre-existence of the soul. The soul begins to exist the moment the body begins to exist, e.g. conception.

On whether Numbers 5:11-31 describes an abortion, compare translations of Num. 5:21-22 on Biblehub. Out of dozens of translations the NIV is the only one that uses the term "miscarry." The rest mention the shriveling of a body part, but the Hebrew word for it is vague. The same word is used to describe where Ehud stabbed King Eglon, but also where God injured Jacob. Thus some versions translate it as womb/abdomen, but a majority translate it as thigh. Also important to note that pregnancy wasn't a requirement for the ritual. Pregnant or not, the faithful wife received no harm. Pregnant or not, the unfaithful wife was found out.

Again, I know we don't have to rely on scripture to be prolife. There are many secular prolife arguments from science. But I thought you might want this in your arsenal if someone wants to argue for abortion from scripture.

Excellent point about the body and soul not being separate. Consistent with Theology of the Body.

I also found this article that goes into extreme depth about the many, many reasons that the Numbers passage does not describe abortion/forced miscarriage and the many, many other much more likely possibilities.

As long as we're discussing Biblical arguments against abortion, let's look at two New Testament ones.

The Annunciation: Mary's conception is the beginning of God coming into the world. If she'd had an abortion at any point in her pregnancy, she would have been destroying Jesus.

The Visitation: Elizabeth's son leapt in her womb upon the arrival of the Lord. This proves that he was a separate person, and that Jesus was a person long before birth. Since Elizabeth was in her sixth month of pregnancy at the time of Mary's Annunciation, Jesus is no more than three months' gestation at this time.

And to expand it to other religious arguments against abortion, since I'm Catholic, anyone who wants to argue for abortion on religious grounds had better read Evangelium Vitae first. God gave His Church teaching authority, and His Church clearly teaches that abortion is a grave evil. (When this is written by a Pope who lived through Nazi-occupied Poland and Communist-occupied Poland, you had better believe he has first-hand experience with the horrors that result when you don't value all human life.)

[legendtraineremily]

Night Vale First Ward

It has come to our attention that the nursery leaders are being accused of many things including, but not limited to, teaching the children out of Elder James E. Talmage’s secret work Jesus The Christ and His Favorite Dinosaurs, The Children’s Songbook: Jazz Edition, and the Living Scriptures animated movie “Ehud and Eglon.”

We would like to remind our members that what happens in the Nursery Room…stays in the Nursery Room. Thank you.

Our next speaker…

[hildegardavon]

Eglon Hendrick Van der Neer, 1634-1703

Portrait de jeune femme (Allégorie de la Vanité), 1683, huile sur panneau, 37.3x27.4 cm

Private Collection

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"Giuditta" - Eglon Hendrik van der Neer - 1678, olio su tavola di quercia dimensioni 32 x 24 cm. "National Gallery", Londra