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  • The Severity of Knowing (3)

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    Buy truth, and do not sell it, get wisdom, instruction, and understanding. Proverbs 23:23  NASB Do not sell – The verb is mākar.  Kaiser comments: “One passage uses the verb figuratively, ‘buying the truth and selling it not’ (Prov 23:23). Perhaps the Israelite king, Ahab, illustrates that passage, since ‘he sold himself to work wickedness’ under the…

  • Walk Among the Tombstones

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    May their encampment be laid waste, and in their tents may no one dwell.  Psalm 69:26 [Hebrew Bible]  Robert Alter No one dwell – Enough already!  David’s already cursed them.  He’s already wished them trapped, blind, and feeble.  He’s elicited the storm God to scorch them with hot lava.  Why keep the curses going?  Ah,…