[PW] Re: Phrase Stumper

[Bill Davis]

I came upon a website that took Psalm 37:3 --

"Trust in the LORD, and do good; [so] shalt thou dwell in the land, and 
verily thou shalt be fed."

             and restated it with this language:

"Trust in God's Law of Love, do good; truly do well in God's land, truly 
you eat."

While there is no etymological relationship of the word "dwell" to the 
expression "do well,"  perhaps the phrase "do good and do well" is a 
shorthand expression derived from this bible verse.

Bill Davis








At 12:49 AM 9/29/2006, you wrote:

>On 9/28/06, Shari Haber <shaber at mcls.org> wrote:
>
> > I am trying to find the origin of the phrase "Do good and do well,"
> > which is sometimes referred to as "the double bottom line" (i.e., by
> > being socially responsible you can also do well financially).
>
>I have heard a variation of this phrase used to describe the
>missionaries who came to Hawai'i in the 1820s, but it is not
>complimentary. "They came to do good and stayed to do well." That is,
>they came to help the heathen and ended up owning all the heathen's
>land and forming the business community. I don't know when this was
>first said, but it's certainly older than the 1990s.
>
>I don't think it's true, BTW. Most of the missionaries died poor; it
>was their children, born and raised in the islands, who formed the
>business class and bought or married into the land. Um, except for a
>couple of missionaries who had run the mission's supply store and quit
>to become businessmen. Castle and Chamberlain, I think.
>
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