These days of Covid-19 we are prohibited from leaving our homes without sufficient warrant. A couple of texts come to mind. I shall not comment on how I think they relate to our present state of affairs (or whether they do at all!). I shall leave that up to the reader. For now, I simply note them and find the associations (and differing contexts and meanings) stimulating.
Here are two famous texts to ponder.
Bilbo used to say: "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door" (J. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, 74).
And then there's Proverbs 26:13 (ESV): "There's a lion in the road! There is a lion in the streets!"
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