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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Don't feel bad. Bible scholars have been puzzling over it for years. Just how close were Jon & Dave, and what did David mean in saying Jonathan's "wonderful" love for him was beyond the love of women?
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The love for a brother need not necessarily mean anything untoward !!! But in those days moral stances differed from ours, anyway.
[assuming, somewhat uncharitably on my part, that the phrase has not been altered by jealous monks or scribes sometime during the Middle Ages, especially late at night and in candle-light]