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Sobering verse from Hosea...I remember being struck by it some 40 years ago or more.

PS: I hope this does not diverge too much from the OP. Overall the passage from Mark 14 which began the discussion is intended to be solemn and sobering and instructive.

Oh okay... I think that 100 years ago, even among Christians there were rather more stringent ideas about what constituted nudity; even men were supposed to bathe with a swimsuit top. I'm not sure that in Antiquity the custom was so self-conscious. Today Christians - even in North America -...

So are you being dogmatic here about underclothes as well? I hadn't thought of the work 'streaking' here, but I guess it fits...

Good cross-reference there.

Food for thought indeed. As regards Mark's apparent reference to himself in Mark 14, I wonder whether the significance of his nakedness in verse 52 is simply cultural (and if so, what?) or something else also? (I must say I had not particularly noticed this until the OP drew our attention to it.)

John in his Gospel also refers to himself obliquely also, in a comparable way.

I guess to you, just about obliquely self-evident; but to the motivated Christian young men and women who may be about to do it, intensely so, no doubt! right? :)

I've never heard or read MB on the hypostatic union; I don't know enough about him to be honest, to comment; but I don't have any reason to doubt what you say. The Incarnation is indeed a glorious doctrine.

@Lady Crosstalk I guess the many young Christian men and women, convicted with certainty that inherently conversation-starting Bible verse/witness tattoo designs will lead to many testimony opportunities, might well indeed regard the benefits of their to be tattooed designs greatly to outweigh...

John 1.14; Colossians 2.9, etc., speak gloriously of His incarnation; theologians speak of His hypostatic union, which is the union of the two natures, man and God at the same time. :)

Now, after Pentecost, we should indeed prize the indwelling Spirit by Whom we cry 'Abba, Father'.

FYI: https://www.christianityboard.com/threads/poll-best-age-for-first-tattoo.28560/page-12#post-547499

They are dead, right? (as per Ephesians 2.1).

We know he kept sheep from Genesis, and that the sacrifice involved fat. Far more of an indication of a picture of the Lamb of God, than Cain's labours in the soil ever were.

The language of Hebrews 11.4 seems to imply an animal sacrifice performed in faith.

@charity FYI...did you see the most recent posts, above?

There was also the offering - animal sacrifice - that Abel brought, which God accepted because of faith. Cain's offering seems to have been, rather, the fruit of his own labours.

Various good things happened in the days of Hezekiah.