December 20, 2010 – Judith 15-16

If you are wondering about the order in which I do these readings, here is a brief summary.  The first day is the historical books of the Old Testament.  The third day is the New Testament.  The forth day is the Catechism.  The second day, I looked up websites that talked about Old Testament Scriptures that were mentioned or referred to in some way in the New Testament.  These are not always so obvious, but it sometimes works out.  For instance, today’s reading, what I have written is that there is a Vision of Hell and that there should also be something in tomorrow’s reading that is either a vision of Hell or something similar.  When I have something written down that is suppose to connect the two, I will try and let you know. 

So, we get the tail end of the story first here.  You can go to the introduction of the book for a quick synopsis.  We see in 16:17 the verse that refers to a vision of Hell.  Keep that in mind when reading tomorrows.  Going off of what I posted yesterday, here we see another honoring of a woman as a hero and savior of the Israelite people, but this is not a book celebrated by Protestants in their Bibles.  I don’t have much to add except that the lesson to be learned is that if you are in charge of a military and attacking someone, don’t get lured into a drunken stupor or you may lose your head.