Show OW IT STARTED by JEAN NEWTON MEN IN HIGH PLACES TT WOULD be safe to say that few of us unless we had an of the truth could accurately surmise the actual beginnings of this phrase men in high places which today Is an al buslon to people occupying important positions but how different was its original usage and its original significance I 1 in the beginning the so called high places were held in dishonor and disrespect by those who used the expression the israelites of their neighbors the high places referred to being the hlll topa where men went to worship strange gods such were the original high places upon which shrines were erected this being a custom which was widespread in ancient times arising undoubtedly out of the belief that the tops of hills brought the worshiper that much near er to his god 1632 bell syndicate service |