{"id":3451,"date":"2013-09-24T22:03:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T22:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=3451"},"modified":"2013-09-24T22:03:06","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T22:03:06","slug":"beneath-the-fifth-rib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/3451\/beneath-the-fifth-rib\/","title":{"rendered":"beneath the fifth rib"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hey Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">While reading first and Second Samuel.\u00a0I have noticed when people are put to death by the sword, the writer its very precise to say they are stabbed &#8220;beneath the fifth rib&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The question I would like to ask is this phrase for that time in history, the way things were just written then, or does that phrase refer to something spiritual, the way Moses&#8217; tabernacle represented heaven?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Steven<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">===============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi Steven.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>I am not an expert on anatomy, but I have always assumed that with the phrase &#8220;beneath the fifth rib&#8221;, the author was telling us that a person was stabbed in the heart.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Perhaps some of our friends in the medical community can clarify that for us.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Pastor John, While reading first and Second Samuel.\u00a0I have noticed when people are put to death by the sword, the writer its very precise to say they are stabbed &#8220;beneath the fifth rib&#8221;. The question I would like to ask is this phrase for that time in history, the way things were just written [&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-3451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451"}],"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=3451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}