Question: in your opinion, why does the voice instruct the rider of the black horse “see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.”?🍷
I have some thoughts on that, but I’d like others’ insights.
Oil and Wine (as I’ve been instructed) were noted to be items generally relegated to the more affluent; not generally the poor.
So the rich will get to have their food, their wine, etc. because high costs will not be prohibitive for them.
The poor, of course, will suffer due to the high prices. Some perhaps even to the point of starvation.
We see this today: the wealthy really don’t care that we poor slobs are paying more for gas under Joe Biden, more for food, more for EVERYTHING.
Hence the deceitfulness of riches; I am reminded of the Rich Man and Lazarus.
Hence the “a loaf of bread for a day’s wage and a day’s wage for a loaf of bread” (or “a measure of wheat”)
A Day’s Wages for a working-class slob - not the rich