tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956173110733260952.post4438041744970300713..comments2023-04-29T12:09:48.251+01:00Comments on jesus wept: Is 'lived allegory' a workable definition of prophecy?gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780471237127876432noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956173110733260952.post-84751852625152026792008-09-29T22:23:00.000+01:002008-09-29T22:23:00.000+01:00Hi Grace,One of those off the cuff comments that s...Hi Grace,<BR/><BR/>One of those off the cuff comments that starts to resonate as you type it. <BR/><BR/>I'm not sure. Prophecy as lived allegory? I think what was going through my mind was that whether or not your account of the path through the housing estate was intended as an allegory, it certainly could be taken as such - almost to the extent that it was unavoidable. <BR/><BR/>Which got me thinking that one way God might get me to notice something would be to have me live through it first. That way it would be ingrained in my memory - my flesh, even - though the interpretation I might choose to give the experience might in the end be mine to make.<BR/><BR/>For example, was it Hosea who married a prostitute, and stayed faithful to her, as an allegory of God's relationship with Israel? (And was the interpretation of the prophecy binding? Or an exercise in sense-making by a patriarchal figure, who had an experience to deal with, and chose this explanation?) <BR/><BR/>The few dreams I've had of future events have been so fragmented that they have required a wilful act of interpretation to be made of them before they could be called prophecies properly. I'd be really interested to hear whether this is other people's experience, or just my own.Steve Lancasterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11372895191510424827noreply@blogger.com