Today’s Word
Bite the Dust (1)
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. Psalm 34:18 NASB Crushed – One of the joys of teaching English to Italian businesspeople is explaining English idioms. Every language and every culture has its own idioms. Italian, for example, has a lovely idiom about keeping a secret: acqua en boca, which…
Telltale Signs
Behold, I will make you small among the nations; You are greatly despised. The arrogance of your heart has deceived you, Obadiah 1:2-3a NASB Arrogance – In a conversation with the Rabbi here in Parma, the topic of political arrogance came up. He directed me to the smallest of the prophetic books, Obadiah. The book is purportedly…
Biblical Politics
Do not trust in noblemen, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation. His spirit departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish. Psalm 146:3-4 NASB Nobleman – The world is continuously more and more interconnected. Two years of pandemic disruption could hardly be better evidence. Our lives are intertwined with many, many others, most of…
Text and Transmission
You shall also speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If anyone curses his God, then he will bear the responsibility for his sin. Leviticus 24:15 NASB Anyone – The more you look, the more complicated it becomes. That’s how I feel after a few decades of investigating the issue of textual transmission. When I first became…
Biblical Haiku
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: Ecclesiastes 3:1 KJV A time – How do you read the Bible? Perhaps that question is far too broad. What I want to ask is this: What lens do you use when you’re reading the Bible? Do you read…
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