Today’s Word
Overture
For the choir director; according to Shushan Eduth. A Mikhtam of David, to teach; when he struggled with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt. Psalm 60:1-2 [Hebrew text] NASB translation Shushan Eduth – A mikhtam is, ah, no one quite knows for sure. The…
The Academy
Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?” John 18:38a NASB Truth – Plato is in many respects the founder of Western civilization. His teacher, Socrates, and his pupil, Aristotle, completed a trinity of minds that literally shaped our conception of the world, God and Man. A product of wealthy and aristocratic Athenians, Plato’s ideas have…
Equal Standing
Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ: 2 Peter 1:1 NASB Of the same kind as ours – Isotope, isosceles, isoseismic, isometric. All derived from the Greek isos meaning “equal.”…
Kingdom Status
Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ: 2 Peter 1:1 NASB Bond-servant – “Greeks have a strong sense of freedom. Personal dignity consists of freedom. There is thus a violent…
Theological Punctuation
Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ: 2 Peter 1:1 NASB Our God and Savior, – Peter, actually Shim’on called Kepha (i.e. Petros in Greek), is a Jew. Yes, he…
The Outer Limits
Bless the Lord, all you works of His, in all places of His dominion; bless the Lord, O my soul! Psalm 103:22 NASB You works – In the final address of the psalm, David moves from personal self-reflection to the widest possible view, the whole cosmos. “All you works” is the Hebrew kal-ma’asay. It means…
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