The hosts play Secular vs. Solomon, judging whether each proverb is Biblical or worldly and naming a country of origin for worldly ones. Rounds: a Danish 'act in the valley' proverb; Proverbs 31:6 (give strong drink to the perishing); Proverbs 17:14 (the beginning of strife is like letting out water); Proverbs 17:27 (a cool spirit); an Italian 'choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight'; Proverbs 15:17 (dinner of herbs vs. fattened ox, with a story about an eggplant wedding sandwich); a Kenyan 'he who does not know one thing knows another'; an English 'a hungry man is an angry man'. The ESV is used for Bible references.
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Pope style, full: the man mistaken for the Pope on childlike curiosity
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Solomon: eight marks of a sluggard
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Ask the Pastor: why is Proverbs in the Bible?
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Secular vs Solomon: drowning men, monkeys, and Proverbs 11:9
- A drowning man is not troubled by rain — secular or Solomon?
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