there will be a stench

Simmering now for a night, lid cracked open, and here it comes: back to this whole scent idea. Definitely a sermon on its own, with the other four brothers forming a solid 31-day month of Sundays on the homophonic Census (challenging you this morning, yes). Won't do more than an outline right now because still unsure this has a point.

* Only 11 references to "nose" and more to do with piercing than smelling
* Only 8 references to "smell" but there's a doozy of a one in Gen8
* 25 references to "scent" -- but wait, trickery's afoot. Actually only 4 since the other 21 are word organs.
* Here's the real kicker: 50 references for "aroma" and almost all of them preceded by "soothing". Now ExLevNum take their unfair shares being lawyerly and all but don't hold it against them.
* 2Cor, Eph, and Phil round out the NT but replace soothing with fragrant.
* There's some key events that involve scents indirectly without the concordial ease. Two that come to mind: Laz done for 3 and the wasteful Mary.

Thesis: Like an oenophile, our scent is meaningful to God. Rotting is the opposite of what we want to be. Nothing out of the ordinary about this thesis, so obviously something more has to be sniffed out. And maybe this makes more sense with an overarching thesis with the four brothers, I don't know.