Once and Twice

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

My soul is crushed with longing for Your ordinances at all times. Psalm 119:20 NASB Crushed – Put in the place of emphasis, gāraš is first in the sentence.  Of course, that also continues the acrostic, but here we have a word used only once (maybe twice) in the Tanakh.  It’s a good thing a derivative…

Birth Rite

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

So He drove the man out; and at the east of the Garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.  Genesis 3:24  NASB Drove – Human birth is painful.  Every mother knows this.  The biblical account seems to establish this painful experience as…