The Balancing of Power
by Simon
•Simon is a young Bahamian with things on his mind who wishes to remain anonymous. His column 'Front Porch' is published every Tuesday in the Nassau Guardian. He can be reached at frontporchguardian@gmail.com
Crow-barring a well-known quote out of its original context is akin to isolating a verse from a famous poem. You may get some of the flavour, but not the full taste, of what the author fully intended.
Think of prooftexting, which drains Biblical texts of their originality and vitality, by severing them from their historical and literary contexts. There are also misquoted texts.
Money is not the root of all evil, according to Timothy 6:10. Rather, “For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”
It’s telling that the qualifying verb, love, has often been discarded in this moralism regarding the relationship between man/woman and moolah.
