Today’s Word
Being and Nothingness
Now Reuben returned to the pit, and behold, Joseph was not in the pit; so he tore his garments. He returned to his brothers and said, “The boy is not there; as for me, where am I to go?” Genesis 37:29-30 NASB Is not there – We looked into the grammatical implications of this verse once before. Perhaps you’ll recall it (CLICK…
Let’s Pray
Evening and morning and at noon, I will complain and moan, and He will hear my voice. Psalm 55:17 NASB Evening and morning and at noon – I have always wondered why Judaism calls for prayers three times a day and Islam calls for prayers five times a day. Here is the justification for the Jewish sequence: Abraham initiated…
Conjunctions
Do not cast me away from Your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Psalm 51:11 NASB And – Oh, the extent of this mighty little letter. Attach a vav to a Hebrew word, and all kinds of things can happen. Here, in particular, we are faced with some significant translation choices. You see, vav can mean, “so, then, and, with, together, so that,…
Retrofit
Do not cast me away from Your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Psalm 51:11 NASB Your Holy Spirit – Well, if you wanted a prooftext for the Trinitarian view of the third person of the Godhead, you probably would include this verse from David.[1] After all, if David acknowledged the “Holy Spirit,” how could anyone who…
Person
Then God said, “Let Us make mankind in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth, and over every crawling thing that crawls on the earth.” Genesis 1:26 NASB Image/ likeness – How many times have we examined the implications…
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