{"id":222,"date":"2009-01-18T13:39:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T17:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=222"},"modified":"2009-01-18T13:39:14","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T17:39:14","slug":"biblical-phrase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/222\/biblical-phrase\/","title":{"rendered":"biblical phrase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Bro. John:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">These are a few of the scriptures I was talking to you about last night, where <em>&#8220;lay thine hand upon thy mouth&#8221;<\/em> is used. What does this phrase mean when used here?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">&#8220;If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, <strong>lay thine hand upon thy mouth.&#8221;<\/strong> (Proverbs)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">&#8220;The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall <strong>lay their hand upon their mouth<\/strong>, their ears shall be deaf.&#8221; (Micah)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">&#8220;Mark me, and be astonished, and <strong>lay your hand upon your mouth.&#8221;<\/strong> (Job)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thanks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em>Sandy<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em>=============<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>That phrase just means, &#8220;to be silent&#8221;, &#8220;to have nothing to say&#8221;.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>jdc<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bro. John: These are a few of the scriptures I was talking to you about last night, where &#8220;lay thine hand upon thy mouth&#8221; is used. What does this phrase mean when used here? &#8220;If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}