Thread by @delong

@apocrypals so procrastinatin', & so thinking about Jaazaniah, as one does...

My go-to source The Watchtower <wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp…> says "all 4 men mentioned in þe Bible by þis name lived wiþin þe same short period of time" of þe Fall of Judah. þey are described as sons 1/

@apocrypals of "þe Maacathite" (i.e., from Maacah), "Azzur", "Shaphan", & "Jeremiah þe son of Habazziniah" (i.e., of not þt Jeremiah). þe Watchtower says "Hmmm. It must have become an incredibly common name in þe last days of Judah". I find myself wondering if þt is naive. AIU, Shaphan 2/

@apocrypals is Caesar-real, but are some of þe patronymics & descriptors þe prophets throwing some kind of shade at a single Jaazaniah son of Shaphan, who offered incense to idols in þe temple, schemed hurtfulness & advised bad counsel, rejected Jeremiah's advice, & then led a remnant of 3/

@apocrypals Judah's military into þe service of Pharaoh after þe catastrophe? What do þose Who Know Things think about þese issues?

@apocrypals First time I have ever quoted The Watchtower as an authority!

How are things in the land of competent technocratic governance?

@apocrypals & if we did not know þt þe Inferno had been written by Dante & þt Paradise Lost had been written by Milton, & if þey were classified as apocrypha, you @apocrypals would have long since covered both. Jus' sayin' y'all...