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sogdianrock · 61-69, M
hi Valentine
A bushel is a measure of wheat. I guess in the olden days people hid their lights under them. Ye were a shy lot.
Best wishes
:)
ps google says: The parable is the source of the English proverb "to hide one's light under a bushel", the use of the word "bushel", an obsolete word for bowl (now relegated to usage as a unit of measure), appearing in William Tyndale's translation of the New Testament: "Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick, and it lighteth all them which are in the house."
A bushel is a measure of wheat. I guess in the olden days people hid their lights under them. Ye were a shy lot.
Best wishes
:)
ps google says: The parable is the source of the English proverb "to hide one's light under a bushel", the use of the word "bushel", an obsolete word for bowl (now relegated to usage as a unit of measure), appearing in William Tyndale's translation of the New Testament: "Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick, and it lighteth all them which are in the house."
Valentine · M
@sogdianrock Most interesting, sogdianrock. I am sure this quaint measure was ousted by the numerous and oblivious committees in EU Brussels "just because they could". #justsayin ;) (The Brexit debate continues...)