One Day Left. Thirteen-Hundred Pages.

In the Zend-Avesta, the ancient law book of the Persians, it is laid down that if "the mad dog, or the dog that bites without barking, smite a sheep or wound a man, the dog shall pay for it as for wilful murder. If the do shall smite a sheep or wound a man, they shall cut off his right ear. If he shall smite another sheep or wound another man, they shall cut off his left ear. If he shall smite a third sheep or wound a third man, they shall cut off his right foot. If he shall smite a a fourth sheep or wound a fourth man, they shall cut off his left foot. If he shall for the fifth time smite a sheep or wound a man they shall cut off his tail. Therefore they shall tie him to the post; by the two sides of the collar they shall tie him. IF they shall not do so, and the mad dog, or the dog that bite without barking, smite a sheep or wound a man, he shall pay for it as for wilful murder." It will be generally admitted that in this enactment the old Persian lawyer treats a worrying dog with great forbearance; for he gives him no less than five distinct chances of reforming his character before he enacts from the irreclaimable culprit the extreme penalty of the law.

Considering we have one day left to finish the bible I truly hope Sexson doesn't have any comparative measures of punishments to us, physically or grade wise. I'm still stuck in Kings, though I feel rather proud of myself for getting thus far in the bible within a month. I tried, I truly did. And then I decided I needed to continue living my life instead of being locked up like a recluse or Thomas Merton in some corner with my Bible and no life to show for it. This is not say I'm giving up on reading the bible. I will finish it by the end of the semester. But the next 14 hours will not be directed towards trying to read 1300 pages of 4 font.