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- From: torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Genital-grabbing
- Message-ID: <TORKEL.93Jan2030039@bast.sics.se>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 02:00:39 GMT
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- Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
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- In-Reply-To: bb099@cleveland.Freenet.Edu's message of 2 Jan 93 01:23:38 GMT
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- In article <1i2qqqINNhsr@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bb099@cleveland.Freenet.Edu
- (Adam Trent Phillips) writes:
-
- >I think Abraham had ordered
- >a servant to make a promise and told mis servant to put his hands between
- >his legs while making the promise...sounds rather kinky to me :
-
- Not Abraham's legs, the servant's own legs. From "In a word" by Ernst &
- Thurber:
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- TESTIFY
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- Latin testis, witness, also testicle; and facio, to make.
- Dating back to Biblical times, a witness swore to the
- truth, or testified, by placing his hand on the source of
- life and manhood, the testes. The King James version, in a
- polite euphemism, says that an oath is taken by placing
- the hand upon the thigh. In law, a testament is a written
- and witnessed will; the Old and New Testaments referred to
- the witnessed covenant between God and man. Detest is from
- de, down or away, plus witness.
-