It means that sometimes, the punishment meted out to a criminal is so severe and traumatic, or maybe just unpalatable, that the offender is forever deterred from committing a crime again for fear of being given the same punishment.
The sun is in such a position that the man's shadow (4ft) is equal to two-thirds of his actual height (6ft). Using the same scale, it can be taken that the tree's shadow of 18 feet is equal to two-thirds of the tree's actual height, thus :-
18 divided by 2 = 9.
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I would guess it means that one cannot fully appreciate life and all it has to offer until one has literally stared death in the face. In order to enjoy life to the full, one must live it on the edge.
BLUE . I know - very dull and predictable but there it is ! Lol !
Qu'est-ce qui se passe (pronounced 'Kess-er-key-sup-ass')
or
Qu'est-ce qu'il y a (pronounced 'Kess-er-keel-you')
Don't know - Just what Jesus said - and a very strange statement is is. However, I believe there is some evidence that the original Hebrew/Aramaic was mistranslated because the words for 'camel' and 'rope' are very similar. Trying to thread a rope through the eye of a needle would make much more sense.
