Jordan B. Peterson

Yeah.

It's also reminiscent of that notion that if a few good men could be found in Sodom and Gomorrah, then God won't destroy it.

If there's any goodness there, I mean, Moses is making a case, I suppose, that at least he's there and on God's side, and maybe that's enough.

Why do we think, perhaps, that he doesn't really have any reason...

Why didn't he jump at the chance to start again, you know?

So it's an index of the depth of his commitment to this particular mission at this particular time.

I'm murky about this, what we just read, 25 to 28.

And when Moses saw that the people were naked, for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies.

What's going on there?

Do you think, is the nakedness a reference to the orgiastic occurrence?

And why is it shame among their enemies?

Does anyone understand that particular phrasing?

For Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies.

So is it something like the revelation of their licentious weakness?

Right.

Well, and that nakedness is a revelation.

It is a revelation of vulnerability, you know, and you might say that if you reveal your licentiousness to your enemy, you do simultaneously reveal your weakness.

Yeah, I think all those images come together to show you that it does have to be some kind of... Well, it's the case that when you do something shameful, you reveal your weakness.

I mean, that's just, that's actually why it's shameful, right?

So that's just literally the case.