NakedClay@aol.com on sat 13 nov 99
Hi Everybody!
Once again your former PK checking in.
Brimstone is the hard gritty stone that one shapens knives with. In fiery
Biblical times, it was used to sharpen swords, and in more peaceful times,
plowshares.
The term "Fire and Brimstone" is recent, used to describe either a pastor who
delivers a very "heated" sermon (LOL), or is a term derived from Biblical
text (probably Revelations), about how the world will end.
Gee, why does this seem like I'm on a game show on TV?
Milton NakedClay
Enjoying the memories and dialogue.
John Rodgers on sun 14 nov 99
Interesting definition of "Brimstone" but not the one I know and grew up with.
Being raised in the Deep South, and as a youth facing a traditional southern
Baptist preacher in the pulpit every Sunday who could raise the church roof all
the way up to God Himself.......I got the message loud and clear that "Brimstone
was the "odious, breathtaking, gagging, sulphurous source of the Fires of
Hell!!!! Thus "Fire and Brimstone"!!
Now in more enlightened times, I think that brimstone is actually another name
for sulfur in a rocklike solid form.
John Rodgers
Currently back in the Bible Belt - Alabama
NakedClay@aol.com wrote:
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Hi Everybody!
>
> Once again your former PK checking in.
>
> Brimstone is the hard gritty stone that one shapens knives with. In fiery
> Biblical times, it was used to sharpen swords, and in more peaceful times,
> plowshares.
>
> The term "Fire and Brimstone" is recent, used to describe either a pastor who
> delivers a very "heated" sermon (LOL), or is a term derived from Biblical
> text (probably Revelations), about how the world will end.
>
> Gee, why does this seem like I'm on a game show on TV?
>
> Milton NakedClay
>
> Enjoying the memories and dialogue.
NakedClay@aol.com on tue 16 nov 99
Hi Everybody!
It looks like I had a Biblical "belch" with the brimstone definition. Indeed,
I was confusing "Fire and Brimstone" with another Biblical phrase, and stand
corrected. Brimstone is indeed sulphur, as other ClayArt readers have noted.
Milton NakedClay@AOL.COM
Great day in the Mojave Desert--getting "burned" here at the computer is
easier than doing so in the hot sun!
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