Thursday 21 December 2017

Ezekiel's Wall


What does it mean though:
Lo, when the wall is fallen shall it not be said unto you, where is the daubing wherewith you have daubed it.
Ezekiel 13:12

My understanding of it which may be wholly wrong is as follows. 'Daubing' is what builders in Ireland would call 'render' or that skim of sand and cement mix applied to house walls to shed the rain and prevent it from lodging in the joints of the masonry where the working of frost would degrade the mortar. In metaphorical terms then daubing is the skim of beliefs, analogies and oh very well - narratives, which sustain the fabric of our lives. When it is 'thin', porous or ill-applied then the weather of attrition soon exposes the 'wall' to damage and eventual failure.

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