by admin | Feb 9, 2017 | Deuteronomy, Section Three, The Fear of the Lord
I’m considering the third occurrence of yirʼâh (ויראתך) in the Bible, the word I’d hoped would distinguish the fear of the Lord from ordinary fear: This very day, yehôvâh (יהוה) said to Moses, I will begin to fill all the people of the earth with dread and to terrify...
by admin | Jan 27, 2017 | Deuteronomy, Section Three, The Fear of the Lord
This very day, yehôvâh (יהוה) said to Moses, I will begin to fill all the people of the earth with dread and to terrify them when they hear about you. They will shiver and shake in anticipation of your approach.[1] This very day was past as Moses recounted Israel’s...
by admin | Jan 18, 2017 | Chapter 15, Romans, Section Three
I’ve considered, For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth to confirm the promises made to the fathers.[1] Jesus was the only living descendant of Abraham worthy of the promised land and the kingdom of God at the...
by admin | Jan 12, 2017 | Paul's Religious Mind, Section Three
In the year of King Uzziah’s death,[1] yehôvâh (יהוה) sent the prophet Isaiah to harden the descendants of Israel living in the southern kingdom of Judah (Isaiah 6:9-12 NET): “Go and tell these people: ‘Listen continually, but don’t understand! Look continually, but...
by admin | Dec 29, 2016 | Section Three, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?, Who am I?
I spend a large portion of my Christmas holiday with three post-Christian women I’ll call Grandmother, Mother and Daughter because of their relationship to one another. I call them post-Christian because they were all professing Christians at one time. Grandmother...
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...