Slow learner. Wow. I guess you don't know me very well. The third plague was lice/gnats/flees (depending on your translation of Hebrew). Look up Exodus 8:16. It's not a great leap of logic to figure that could have led to the diseases of the later plagues.
My full name is in my email. I haven't used a .sig since the '90s. On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 7:25 PM, Mixon Bill via Texascavers <texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote: > Reply to yet another unsigned post by a slow learner. I'm no Biblical > scholar, but I don't think insects had anything at all to do with the ten > plagues of Egypt, except, for course, for the locusts that were themselves > one of them. Check your Old Testament. > > Until fairly recently (nineteenth century?), malaria wasn't associated with > mosquitoes, and the same is true of yellow fever, etc. One reads of malaria > being caused by miasmas associated with swamps and marshes. In fact, malaria > is _named for_ bad air. Of course the ancients might have made some correct > associations that then were forgotten, only to be resurrected later. > -- Mixon > ---------------------------------------- > What great comfort is there to be derived from a wife well obeyed!—Anthony > Trollope, Barchester Towers > ---------------------------------------- > You may "reply" to the address this message > (unless it's a TexasCavers list post) > came from, but for long-term use, save: > Personal: bmi...@alumni.uchicago.edu > AMCS: a...@mexicancaves.org or sa...@mexicancaves.org > > _______________________________________________ > Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com > Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ > http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
