If a Lion Could Speak

“For My devisings are not your devisings, and your ways are not My ways,” says the Lord.  For as the heavens are high over the earth, so My ways are high over your ways and My devisings over your devisings.”  Isaiah 55:8-9  Robert Alter Devisings – You’re probably more familiar with this verse translated in the popular religious vernacular: “For My…

What We Know

that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; Philippians 3:10 NASB Know – The Austrian philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein, never intended to change the course of modern philosophy and linguistics. He wrote only one book. Most of his later works were notes…

The Words of Words

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations Understand – You won’t find this sentence in the Bible, so don’t bother to look. But you will find the idea behind Wittgenstein’s insight.[1] The idea is that the meaning of words cannot be fully explained with other words. What is…