Tough on Mildew!
B ack when I was in college, a friend and I used to joke about verses in the Bible that struck us as being very funny. For example: After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.(Matthew 4:2, NIV) Really? He was hungry? After 40 days of fasting? You don't say! How about this one: And a young man followed him, with nothing but a linen cloth about his body. And they seized him, but he left the linen cloth and ran away naked (Mark 14:51-52, ESV). Now that must have been a sight to see! Here's one that my friend pointed out to me: The LORD will smite you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with the sword and with blight and with mildew, and they will pursue you until you perish (Deuteronomy 28:22, NASB). This one was very funny to us. The verse almost reads like something from a Monty Python skit. My friend was walking around the room and speaking in a deep, authoritative voice saying, "I will smite thee with MILD