Our Father, who is in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Matthew 6:9 NASB Hallowed – Recently we looked at this verse through the scholarship of Ernst Lohmeyer. We discovered that “hallowed” meant changing God’s hiddenness into observable glory. “Hallowed be Your name” really means doing all we can to reveal God in this world. Whether…
Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered outside the gate. Hebrews 13:12 NASB Sanctify – It’s easy to get a bit confused by this verse and others like it. Not differentiating “sanctify” from “atone,” we might think that this verse supports the idea that Yeshua died for our…
but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence; 1 Peter 3:15 NASB Sanctify – What does “sanctify the Messiah as Lord” really mean? When you think of…
“And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.” John 17:19 ESV Consecrate – “The language is equally appropriate to the preparation of a priest and the preparation of a sacrifice; it is therefore doubly appropriate to Christ.”[1] Barrett’s comment about the Greek word hagiazo is now so commonplace…
Hallowed be Thy Name. Matthew 6:9 Hallowed – Have you ever asked what it means to “hallow” His name? Our first intuition is that it must have something to do with honoring, like the second Commandment. But “hallow” is not a familiar word anymore. Perhaps is never was. Today we are left with this nebulous,…
