Back to the Beginning

“With reproofs You chasten a man for iniquity; You consume as a moth what is precious to him; surely every man is a mere breath.”  Selah.  Psalm 39:11  NASB Precious– By now we should have noticed that David’s vocabulary pushes us back into the history of Israel.  From allusions to Moses, we returned to Egypt. From Egypt we made our…

David and the Midrash

“With reproofs You chasten a man for iniquity; You consume as a moth what is precious to him; surely every man is a mere breath.”  Selah.  Psalm 39:11  NASB Reproofs– The apostolic letters don’t stray far from roots in the Tanakh.  We should not be surprised.  The letters are commentary on the Bible of the apostles, the Tanakh.  So…