Today’s Word

Leave Me Alone

Do not become teachers in large numbers, my brothers, since you know that we who are teachers will incur a stricter judgment.  James 3:1  NASB Teachers – didáskaloi.  “Teachers.”  “imparting theoretical and practical knowledge with the highest possible development of the pupil as the goal.”[1]  Oh, how this verse terrorizes me.  I teach.  Frankly, I can’t help it.  It’s…
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The Victorious Defeat

Then Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.  Genesis 32:24  NASB Wrestled with him – In my book Crossing: The Struggle for Identity I show that this very unusual story has a deep psychological element.  No explanation of who this strange opponent is really satisfies until we recognize that Jacob is…
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Partnership

All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him [a]not even one thing came into being that has come into being.  John 1:3  NASB Apart – chōris is an important Greek word, not only because it shows up in a critical text in John’s gospel but also because it is pivotal in Paul’s statements…
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Text and Transmission

From the openings of the righteous ones is heard her voice; and from the congregation of the pious ones her song.  Psalm 154:12  DSS The righteous ones – Go ahead.  Look this psalm up in your Bible.  Ah, wait a minute.  It isn’t there.  In the Masoretic text there are only 150 psalms.  But the…
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Biblical History

And Joshua had charged the people, saying, “You shall not shout and you shall not let your voice be heard, and no word shall come out of your mouths until the moment I say to you, “Shout,’ and then you shall shout.”  Joshua 6:10  Robert Alter And Joshua had charged the people, saying – One…
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