by admin | Aug 30, 2020 | Isaiah 53:10-12, Psalm 22, Section Five
This study originated in another essay: “I plan to look at all the differences between the Masoretic text and the Septuagint here.” (My take on Isaiah 53:10a can be found there.) I decided to give Isaiah 53:10-12 its own thread when I felt rushed and unwilling to...
by admin | Mar 6, 2017 | Paul's Religious Mind, Section Three
My gift is showing mercy. Also, I’m an outsider in many ways. I was persona non grata when I returned to my childhood church, ostensibly because my wife divorced me, but the impossibility of repentance after apostasy (Hebrews 6:4-6) is an ever-present...
by admin | Oct 7, 2016 | Paul's Religious Mind, Section Three
The movie Spotlight is named after a team of investigative journalists at the Boston Globe. They pierce a smokescreen of secrecy—fueled by police, prosecutors, defense attorneys, businessmen, civil servants, their own bosses and colleagues, even their own...
by admin | Jul 26, 2012 | Chapter 1, Romans, Section Two
I want to consider παραδίδωμι as used by Paul in Romans and 1 Corinthians. The wrath of God…revealed from heaven against all ungodliness (ἀσέβειαν, a form of ἀσέβεια) and unrighteousness of people1 was revealed in three stages: 1) God gave them over (παρέδωκεν, a...