Gardening

“For your guilt teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.” Job 15:5 NASB Crafty – “Naked I came into the world” is another way to say that when I arrived I didn’t have a hidden agenda. That’s what we learn from the phonetically similar Hebrew word arom in Genesis 2:25. Adam…

Agendas

For it is written, “He is the one who catches the wise in their craftiness.” 1 Corinthians 3:19 (citing Job 5:13) Craftiness – When rabbi Sha’ul cites Eliphaz’s comment in Job 5:13, he certainly recalled another use of a similar consonant stem (Ayin-Resh-Mem).  Craftiness is the supreme characteristic of the serpent (Genesis 3:1). We wouldn’t…

El Comienzo de la Sabiduría

15 de junio Y él respondió: “Te oí en el huerto, tuve miedo porque estaba desnudo, y me escondí.” Génesis 3:10 Miedo – Conocemos esta palabra: Solo que no la conocemos en este contexto. Es yare, el verbo que significa “temer, respetar, reverenciar y tener miedo.” Claro que su usanza más común en la Escritura…

The Beginning of Wisdom

and he said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.”  Genesis 3:10 Afraid – We know this word.  We just don’t know it in this context.  It is yare, the verb that means “to fear, to respect, to reverence and to be afraid.” …