Today’s Word
Resentment
[Love] does not take into account a wrong suffered. I Corinthians 13:5 NASB Wrong suffered – The day before Shabbat is a time to gather a double portion. Here’s my contribution to keep you thinking for two days. This excerpt is from a longer article called, “The Grammar of Love.” Let’s start with the Greek…
The Day of Fools
“It will come about at that time that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are stagnant in spirit, who say in their hearts, ‘The Lord will not do good or evil!’” Zephaniah 1:12 NASB Stagnant in spirit – It is a serious, and sometimes fatal, mistake to pretend…
Solomon’s Remez
“Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that are ruining the vineyards, while our vineyards are in blossom.” Song of Songs 2:15 NASB Catch the foxes – No book of the Bible, except perhaps Revelation, has been the subject of more theological speculation than the Song of Songs. Through the ages both Jewish and…
The Conjunction
Yet I will exult in the Lord, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation. Habakkuk 3:18 NASB Yet – Perhaps the most important word in this verse is the tiny consonant vav attached to ani (“I”). The NASB translates this single letter as “yet,” but the vav plays a mighty role in Hebrew….
Right and Left
Concerning evil, both hands do it well. Micah 7:3 NASB Both hands – In Semitic nomadic cultures, you eat with the right hand. The left hand never picks up food. It is used for other purposes. Until the invention of eating utensils, a hard and fast distinction between the hands was absolutely necessary. When the…
Trading Spaces
a minister in the sanctuary and in the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man. Hebrews 8:2 NASB Tabernacle – “The man of the archaic societies tends to live as much as possible in the sacred or in close proximity to consecrated objects. The tendency is perfectly understandable, because . . . the sacred…
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