by admin | Jul 8, 2018 | Forgiven or Passed Over?, Forgiveness, Section Four
In another essay I considered occurrences of sâlach (ונסלח) in Leviticus, translated will be forgiven. The rabbis’ translation ἀφεθήσεται (a form of ἀφίημι) in the Septuagint (See Table1 below) impressed me and I compared those same passages of Leviticus to...
by admin | Nov 22, 2017 | Forgiven or Passed Over?, Forgiveness, Section Four
I bogged down in this study a couple of years ago. I don’t remember whether I balked at how much work it would be or simply recognized the futility of studying ʽâbar alone. I’ll start again comparing and contrasting ʽâbar with nâsâh. The translators of the...
by admin | Feb 20, 2013 | Forgiveness, Genesis, Section Two, The Fear of the Lord
So Judah and his brothers came back to Joseph’s house.1 Suddenly Judah, though not the eldest, has taken the lead in the narrative. He and his brothers threw themselves to the ground before2 Joseph. We are now my lord’s slaves, we and the one in whose possession...
by admin | Sep 27, 2012 | David's Forgiveness, Forgiveness, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?
The fulfillment of Nathan’s prophesy—This is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to bring disaster on you from inside your own household! Right before your eyes I will take your wives and hand them over to your companion. He will have sexual relations with your wives in...
by admin | Sep 19, 2012 | David's Forgiveness, Forgiveness, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?
Before David’s men marched out to…fight against Israel…in the forest of Ephraim,1 The king gave this order to Joab, Abishai, and Ittai: “For my sake deal gently with the young man Absalom.” Now the entire army was listening when the king gave all the leaders this...
by admin | Sep 16, 2012 | David's Forgiveness, Forgiveness, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?
Now the Lord had decided to frustrate the sound advice of Ahithophel, so that the Lord could bring disaster on Absalom.1 I want to keep this in mind as I continue, just in case the NET translators are right to have translated the Hebrew word sound advice here, the...