#22 - Specific Reference, Weaken

[Adam Tyson]

The problem I have with answer D, annabelle, is that it's irrelevant whether the tokens were meant to be put into envelopes.

Just yesterday, I dropped my car off after hours at the dealer to be serviced today. I put my key in an envelope and put it in their drop box.

My car key was never "meant" to be placed in an envelope. That's not what it was made for. But could someone come along and find it in the envelope and determine that I wanted them to repair my car? Of course! Would the fact that the key wasn't made to be placed in an envelope do anything to undermine that theory? Not at all!

The intended purposes of the tokens isn't the issue. The issue is what they were doing in those clay envelopes. Were they supposed to represent contributions to the temple? Or could they have been some sort of private IOU? Or was the token-giver sending a message to someone, like "come by my place later to pick up a few jars of oil and a sheep"? It's the purpose of the tokens being placed in the envelopes that matters, not whether whoever made the tokens intended them to be used that way.