Reply #58: means to use [View All]

[Solly Mack]

guidance as a tool of discipline/ and to fend of enemies

the rod and the staff guided the "kid" (or baby goat) back into line when they strayed off the path... wasn't used to hit the herd. The "rod" was also used to fight off predators of the herd....

so a parent uses the rod to protect the child and to guide the child but never to hit the child

"kid" translates into child because it was closes in meaning to "kid"...though a close translation into terms people could relate to, it also distorted the meaning.


a look at..pslams 23
:thy rod and thy staff comfort me" who in the hell takes comfort in being hit with a rod? but people can take comfort in protection from enemies and guidance...