Moab Is My Washpot (published 1997) is Stephen Fry's autobiography, covering the first 20 years of his life. In the book, Fry is candid about his past ...

9 янв. 2018 г. · Moab is our washpot; if others have found earthly things to be unsatisfactory, we wash our hands of their disappointing pursuits. Dear Savior, ...

6 июн. 2013 г. · It's a complicated allusion, and a quote from (wait, googling) Psalm 60. A washpot was what people in the desert used to clean their feet.

Moab is my washpot—i.e., probably the footbath, a figure expressing great contempt, which receives illustration from the story told of Amasis ...

1 авг. 2020 г. · We may smile at a meaning falsely ascribed to 'Moab is my washpot', but societies that have lost the 'grammar of assent', and the ability to ...

15 июн. 2016 г. · The words used here seem to be an expression of contempt. At that time the washpot was used to cleanse dirty feet. The passage implies that Moab ...

19 мар. 2017 г. · You pour water over your feet/hands and into a washpot. I belive Fry is making a joke about how casually sinful he is. (Stephen Fry right?) This ...

Referring to Moab in this context implies unimportance, control, and subjugation. God also promised to defeat Edom, another of Israel's long-time enemies ( ...

Moab is our washpot; if others have found earthly things to be unsatisfactory, we wash our hands of their disappointing pursuits. Dear Saviour, we wish to ...

The old enemy of God and His people is degraded to do menial service: in other words, it becomes a subject and a vassal.