There is one bit of housekeeping to do, specifically:
In the preceding post, I happened to mention that references to passages in the Bible are numerous in the Battle Hymn. In a comment, Australian reader kylie tai reckoned as how a list of the biblical references would be good because she wanted to know how many she recognised. She then said she would ask chat gpt. I replied that I am old school and have never used chat gbt and asked her to let us know what she found out.
Lo and behold, she did.
In a subsequent comment, kylie sent what can only be described as gobs of information. Here it is with reference numbers added by moi for ease of discussion, if any should ensue:
Copied and pasted direct from my (kylie's) chatgpt search:
1. “the glory of the coming of the Lord” Isaiah 40:5 (OT); Revelation 1:7 (NT)
2. “trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored” Isaiah 63:1–6 (OT); Revelation 14:19–20; Revelation 19:15 (NT)
3. “loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword” Deuteronomy 32:41 (OT); Isaiah 27:1 (OT); Revelation 19:15 (NT)
4. “His truth is marching on” Revelation 19:11 (NT)
5. “builded Him an altar” Genesis 8:20; Genesis 12:7–8; Psalm 43:4 (OT)
6. “His righteous sentence” Psalm 9:7–8 (OT); Daniel 7:10 (OT)
7. “His day is marching on” Zephaniah 1:14–15; Malachi 4:1 (OT)
8. “fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel” Jeremiah 23:29 (OT); Ephesians 6:17 (NT)
9. “As ye deal … so … shall My grace deal” Matthew 7:2; Romans 12:19 (NT)
10. “Hero, born of woman” Genesis 3:15 (OT); Galatians 4:4 (NT)
11. “crush the serpent with His heel” Genesis 3:15 (OT)
12. “sounded forth the trumpet…” 1 Corinthians 15:52; 1 Thessalonians 4:16; Revelation 8–11 (NT)
13. “sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat” Matthew 3:12 (NT imagery from John the Baptist); Hebrews 4:12–13; 2 Corinthians 5:10 (NT)
14. “Christ was born… in the beauty of the lilies” Poetic; lilies echoed in Matthew 6:28–29 (NT)
15. “He died to make men holy” Hebrews 10:10; 1 Peter 2:24 (NT)
16. “coming like the glory of the morning” Matthew 24:27; Malachi 4:2 (OT/NT)
17. “the world shall be His footstool” Psalm 110:1 (OT); Isaiah 66:1 (OT); Acts 2:35; Hebrews 1:13 (NT)
18. “the soul of Time His slave” Theological/poetic; echoes Revelation 1:8; 2 Peter 3:8 (NT)
(end of chat gpt's list)
I was duly impressed and replied to kylie, "Wow!"
I have never used chat gpt for anything even though its popularity is undeniable. On the spectrum of human resistance to change, I probably lie somewhere between a pseudo-troglodyte (that is, without the cave) and a neo-Luddite (that is, without the property damage). Perhaps I will have to go with the flow and reconsider. I am reminded of a famous couplet by the English poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744):
"Be not the first by which the new is tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
Dear reader, help me to make up my mind. Give me some input. Do you use chat gpt? Why or why not?
P.S. -- Mrs. RWP (the lovely Ellie) and I saw the film Wicked on television last night for the first time. At least I now know who Arianna Grande is. Please share your thoughts on Wicked also, if you have any.
P.P.S. -- We also watched our old favorite Jeopardy! for the first time in several months. I was able to answer two questions that not a single one of the Gen Z contestants could, Who is Kenny Rogers? and What is Hadassah?
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