Way of the Wolf

Genesis 14:22-24 (New American Standard Bible)

22 Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have sworn to the LORD God Most
High, possessor of heaven and earth,

23 that I will not take a thread or a sandal thong or anything that is
yours, for fear you would say, 'I have made Abram rich.'

24 "I will take nothing except what the young men have eaten, and the
share of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them
take their share."


I interpret this to mean that Abraham refused handouts. Abraham
refused to be given presents he could not repay, he refused to put
himself into debts he could not cover. Abraham could not be bought with
"easy money".

Quick point:

Somewhere in the vicinity of 6-8,000 years ago, Man's Best Friend was
broken in and tamed from his Wild Wolf forebears who roamed free in the
Virgin Woods of the unsettled world. The weakest and softest wolves, in
the back of the pack, who could not feed themselves were drawn,
starving, by the allure of cooking meat at the campfires of the bipeds. So
their hungry eyes began to appear, glinting and flashing, at the outskirts
of Early Man's campfires, and as their hunger overcame their instinctual
fears, they came in, and were fed...

in exchange for doing tricks, rolling over when told, and being bred as
the bipeds saw fit.

This is the origin of the term "Hand Outs" -- hearkening all the way back
to those days when cooked meat was handed out to hungry wolves soon
-2-B dog pets.


Father Abraham never let anybody yoke or saddle him. Putting his trust
in God, he had a "Can Do" attitude -- as in, I can do it myself, thank you,
I don't need no frigging hand outs. Father Abraham was repulsed
by handouts, not allured.