I really should start reading the Bible. Besides being a spiritual manuscript, it contains lots of stories, moral and otherwise, fascinating plots, and imagery. So many of our everyday expressions today come from the bible as well: http://grammarpartyblog.com/2011/12/02/the-king-james-bible-gave-english-some-awesome-phrases/
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/12/king-james-bible/richardson-photography
"And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." ~ Isaiah 2:4
I find this term "learning war" interesting. We do learn war. We actively and gleefully learn it, in video games and from television and from bullying at school.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swords_to_ploughshares
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