bcedaifu wrote:Sheshbazzar wrote:ha'sooce is Hebrew for 'the HORSE'
Donkeys, horses, and zebras are in the same group, yet, each is distinctive, just as we and orangutans, in the same group, are easily distinguished.
Since the famous third century graffito, Alexamenos worships his god, represents someone mocking a crucified human with the head of a donkey, and since Tertullian, among others, reported that Christians in the third century worshiped donkeys, (onolatry), I must inquire, whether or not the same word, "ha'sooce" is employed in Hebrew to represent both Zebras and Donkeys? In PuTongHua, for example, horse is "ma", while donkey is "luzi", omitting the accents. We know from Tertullian
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01793c.htm
that an apostate Jew, in Carthage, home of Tertullian, displayed a figure with hooves and a donkey's head, again, representing onolatry, to mock the Christians of his day.
LOOK at the Alexamenos Graffiti. It is said that 'a picture is worth a thousand words';
See how carefully and recognizably that
equine head was portrayed ?
Now notice how
small the ears are drawn ?
The most noteworthy difference in any artistic portrayal differentiating a horse from a donkey or jackass is the much larger (and usually artistically enhanced) size of the ears of the latter.
If the artist had
intended to portray a donkey or jackass, the ears would have been an exaggerated feature, or at minimum portrayed much larger than in this graffito.
That is no donkey head.
Don't allow a 'Christian writings' snowjob effectively blind you to seeing the PICTURE.
שקר הסוס לתשועה וברב חילו לא ימלט׃
Sheqer Ha'Sooce le'tshua u'brov chayil'o imaleyt:
'Deceiving is The Horse for safety, and in his great power there is no escape:'
Not '
A horse ...', but '
THE Horse ...' 'Ha'Sooce'.
The Hebrew word for a 'donkey' (
ass) is
חמור chamowr,
'zebra' is
זברה zebra (with a short 'e'), and not found in the Hebrew Tanakh/Bible.
The (Greek) Trojan 'Horse', (which is
not a horse ...of course of course) therefore, Ha'Sooce
ne 'JeeSUS' EXISTS,
which cannot 'help' nor 'save'. Not Alexamenos, not us, not anyone.
Sheshbazzar