by admin | Dec 23, 2016 | Deuteronomy, Section Three, The Fear of the Lord
Instruct these people as follows, yehôvâh had said to Moses: ‘You are about to cross the border of your relatives the descendants of Esau [Jacob’s brother], who inhabit Seir. They will be afraid (yârêʼ, וייראו; Septuagint: φοβηθήσονται, afraid) of you, so watch...
by admin | Dec 14, 2016 | Chapter 15, Romans, Section Three
For I tell you, Paul continued writing to believers in Rome, that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth to confirm the promises made to the fathers, and thus the Gentiles glorify God for his mercy.[1] These are two seemingly...
by admin | Dec 4, 2016 | Paul's Religious Mind, Section Three
Here are two different descriptions Paul wrote of himself, separated by an affliction. Before the Affliction The Affliction After the Affliction “All things are lawful for me” – but I will not be controlled by anything. 1 Corinthians 6:12b (NET) For we do not want you...
by admin | Nov 28, 2016 | Deuteronomy, Section Three, The Fear of the Lord
Then we left Horeb, Moses said, and passed through all that immense, forbidding (yârêʼ, והנורא) wilderness that you saw on the way to the Amorite hill country as the Lord our God had commanded us to do, finally arriving at Kadesh Barnea.[1] The word forbidding gives...
by admin | Nov 22, 2016 | Chapter 15, Romans, Section Three
But we who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not just please ourselves.[1] I assume that the weak (ἀδυνάτων, a form of ἀδύνατος) referred back to the one who is weak in the faith (ἀσθενοῦντα [a form of ἀσθενέω] τῇ πίστει). The weak person...
by admin | Nov 18, 2016 | Section Three, Sexual Immorality
The exercise of revisiting Paul’s Religious Mind and the meaning of Sexual Immorality has clarified a few things that were right in front of me all along. I considered again the list of sins that described the former lives of some who were called to faith in Corinth:...