Seven Pillars of Wisdom

It may well be that Paul was also drawing on a broader experience of the people in that area of the world then and also today.

I say that because I remember in T.E. Lawrence's great classic, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, how In the opening chapter of that book, Lawrence of Arabia, the author, out of his great experience with the Arab people, points out something of the nature of the migrations around the Sinai Peninsula that had been characteristic for centuries and were well known in his own time and in our day as well.

He pointed out that the best land in that particular area of the world was the highlands of Judah.

and especially the land which received the breezes from the Mediterranean where the rain fell, where crops grew, where trees existed at one time.

It may well be that Paul was also drawing on a broader experience of the people in that area of the world then and also today.

I say that because I remember in T.E. Lawrence's great classic, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, how In the opening chapter of that book, Lawrence of Arabia, the author, out of his great experience with the Arab people, points out something of the nature of the migrations around the Sinai Peninsula that had been characteristic for centuries and were well known in his own time and in our day as well.

He pointed out that the best land in that particular area of the world was the highlands of Judah.

and especially the land which received the breezes from the Mediterranean where the rain fell, where crops grew, where trees existed at one time.