GENESIS 37-50 reveals Joseph, empowered by God to do so, could accurately interpret dreams, first of Pharaoh’s butler and baker and then those of Pharaoh himself. The Pharaoh had dreamed first of seven “fine looking and fat cows” eaten up by seven “ugly and gaunt cows” and then of seven withered and blighted ears of […]
Bad Advice
After being deceived by the serpent, encouraged to sin by eating the fruit of the Tree of Life, and giving into that sin, Eve introduces her sin to her husband Adam and he sins in the same way, as Moses records in GENESIS 3 : 6. As a result, they are both expelled from the Garden of Eden. In the Nun’s Priest’s Tale, Chanticleer regrets taking his wife’s advice…
The Beginning
Chaucer describes the Friar as: “…the beste beggere in his hous; / For though a widewe hadde noght a sho, / So plesaunt was his In principio / Yet wolde he have a ferthing er he wente…” Medieval friars commonly repeated In principio erat verbum during their travels about the countryside which means “In the […]