I read Paul’s letter to the Philippians today and I tried so hard to dig deep into it and pull out figurative language but to me it nothing really came out. I went into it reading it just for the figurative language and by the time I was finished it felt the same as when I normally read the Bible. I tried to dig up some life lessons that can improve my relationship with God. So as for how many figurative language items I got it is in the single digits. And all in all reading Philippians with this in my mind did not in any way change how I perceived the letter. I still saw it as a letter of encouragement and didn’t really pull out much from in between the lines or from figurative language. Although I feel that figurative language would not really change my perception of the story in any way at all. The reason I think this is because all that figurative language does for me is give a better description and here I fell that a better description is not really necessary because I understand what Paul is trying to convey. So after not getting much figurative language the first time around I gave it a second read through as Professor Corrigan asked us to and I noticed more figurative language however it didn’t change my perception of St. Paul’s letter in any way. I still feel like figurative language does not really help what Paul is trying to say. Hopefully Professor Corrigan will shed some light tomorrow and I will feel like there is more of a reason for figurative language in the Bible. And hopefully I will be more able to find more figurative language and see what it is talking about and how it helps.
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