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This hopeless human condition reminds me of Plato’s Parable of the Cave. In his book “The Republic,” Plato postulates prisoners who were kept chained up from their birth and facing one wall all the time. As a result, they mistake their shadows on the cave wall for real, and die in their chains without realizing how miserable they are, or how beautiful and glorious the world is outside the cave. But there is a prisoner who breaks his chains and comes out of the cave. Imagine his dazzling experience with the glorious light of the sun and the world under it, and imagine how overwhelming his confusion and realization would be. After experiencing this amazing world, he goes back to the cave. And he testifies the unbelievable real world outside the cave to his fellow prisoners, who are trapped in the false world, but he ends up being killed by those who would not accept the truth.
Just like a fable, this parable is reflecting our reality. Satan the Devil trapped the mankind in the cave of confusion and falsehood.
We humans should never forget not even for a moment that we cannot help but commit sin because of our weaknesses and that we cannot avoid but die because of this sin. Socrates left a famous dictum, “Know yourself.” If he knew today’s Scripture passage, he would have pointed out more specifically, saying, “Know yourself, that you are Enosh.” Perhaps he would have left the following words: “You are indeed inevitably destined to die for your sins, for you are a brood of evildoers. No one has any virtue whatsoever.”
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