The Man And His Two Wives
In a country where men could have more than one wife, a certain man, whose head was fast becoming white, had two, one a little older than himself, and one much younger. The young wife, being of a gay and lively turn, did not want people to think that she had an old man for a husband, and so used to pull out as many of his white hairs as she could. The old wife, on the other hand, did not wish to seem older than her husband, and so used to pull out the black hairs. This went on, until between them both, they made the poor man quite bald.
Moral: No man can belong to two parties at once.
The above was one of Aesop’s Fables. I tried to do a little research on Aesop and found out the he might not have even been real. There are a few instances of Aristotle and some others writing about him, but no one is sure if these are real or not. We are led to believe then, that these are just fables handed down for generations that are meant to steer people to a little common sense. Have anyone of you even looked at one of these fables recently? I think we should make these required reading for anyone entering, or even thinking about entering Congress. Yes, these fables have different meanings, and a lot of them are political, but all are practical. These are all valid and you should go to your library and pick up a copy, but today is not the day I am going political (although, in keeping peace with others remembering that no man can belong to two parties at once should be a helpful life lesson).
Today, instead, I will ask a question that has always befuddled me – Why, In the name of everything that is Holy, would a man want two wives? The guy in the fable today went bald because of it.
This is my real question: Going back over the centuries to Solomon, at what point, after how many wives, did he start going off track? I am not positive, but before that God had given Solomon more wisdom than anyone that had come before him. So, at what point? After wife 287, or before? What was the breaking number?
Can you even imagine the turmoil going on when number 136 needed her feet rubbed while 653 was in labor and needed to grasp his hand and scream out in pain? What if two or three of them were delivering at the same time? How would he deal with that little situation? What if the 28th day of the month was the same for all 1000 wives? Wouldn’t he have been pulling out his own hair? No situation I can paint gives out a pretty picture.
I can only believe that Solomon’s downfall began with wife number two. Go back to the moral of the fable: No man can belong to two parties at once.
The Scriptures say it this way: “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and lover the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon (money).” Matthew 6:24
In other words, your loyalties cannot be divided. Common sense people, common sense.
~AE
