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where is the proof?
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Lamentations 2: 19 (RSV):

[19] Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches!
Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord!
Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children,
who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

The Second Watch:

Judges 7: 19 (Moffatt):

[19] So, when Gideon and his hundred men reached the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just when the guard had been posted, they blew their trumpets and smashed the pitchers in their hands.

The Third Watch:

Exodus 14: 24 (RSV):

[24] And in the morning watch the LORD in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down upon the host of the Egyptians, and discomfited the host of the Egyptians,

The idea that there were three watches in Jewish History goes back a long, long time. To make my other point a bit clearer, *IF* the "watches" are military terms, they were certainly not GREEK military terms since the Greeks did not claim Rulership over the Jews at this time (Except maybe in The Decapolis, mentioned in Mark to the Lunatic who was to return to the Decapolis to show how the Lord took pity on him. Still, the point stands...).

So, why the "Fourth Watch"? Obviously the "Cock Crowing" is important here. It may be as you suggest that there was another meaning to this idea - I wouldn't mind a bit if there was another alternative - but it appears to be pointing to something else.

CW
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where is the proof? - by TruthFinder - 10-22-2014, 10:49 PM
Re: where is the proof? - by SteveCaruso - 10-22-2014, 11:56 PM
Re: where is the proof? - by ScorpioSniper2 - 10-23-2014, 12:50 AM
Re: where is the proof? - by ZechariahBY - 10-23-2014, 12:51 AM
Re: where is the proof? - by Shariyre Saguda - 10-23-2014, 04:22 AM
Re: where is the proof? - by ScorpioSniper2 - 10-23-2014, 08:52 AM
Re: where is the proof? - by Charles Wilson - 10-23-2014, 10:19 PM
Re: where is the proof? - by ZechariahBY - 10-24-2014, 02:22 AM
Re: where is the proof? - by Charles Wilson - 10-24-2014, 10:00 PM

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