Father Mike Schmitz

Number one.

We have to be attentive to the sacred author's intention.

And the four living creatures said, Amen.

And the elders fell down and worshipped.

We have to be attentive to the sacred author's intention, which means we must take into account the conditions of the time, culture, literary genres and use, modes of feeling or speaking, narrating that was current then.

Chapter 6.

The Seven Seals.

Now I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say, as with the voice of thunder, Come.

And I saw, and behold, a white horse, and its rider had a bow, and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer.

So one of the one of the realities is if you were to visit another culture, another country or another language, you visited a language.

When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, Come.

If you were to do that, one of the things we would need to do is we would need to take into account like, OK, we are in different contexts.

And out came another horse, bright red.

Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that men should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.

I remember I lived for one summer down in a Caribbean island known as St.

Vincent and the Grenadines.

and it was great um it was hard it was hard down there because for many reasons but one of the reasons i did not realize right away is because well they all spoke english at saint vincent and the grenadines that was the national language and so i just kind of assumed that well we understand each other because we're all speaking english i'm a native english speaker you're a native english speaker and so we know what we're saying to each other i did not realize though

When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, Come.

And I saw, and behold, a black horse, and its rider had a balance in his hand, and I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, but do not harm oil and wine.

when he opened the fourth seal i heard the voice of the fourth living creature say come and i saw and behold a pale horse and its rider's name was death and hades followed him and they were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by wild beasts of the earth