by admin | May 6, 2021 | Section Five
I visit my mother in hospice every morning. When she still spoke to me she asked me to pray that she could “get out of here.” I told her I didn’t think that I could care for her at her home. She said that wasn’t what she meant. I didn’t answer her. Later that...
by admin | Jan 26, 2021 | Section Five, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?, Who am I?
Jesus said, I always do those things that please him[1] (literally: “I the pleasing things do always”). “How?” I ask. I couldn’t even say, “I always lie.” The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works,[2] Jesus replied. But I say, Paul wrote, live by the Spirit...
by admin | Oct 1, 2020 | A Shadow of the Good Things, Section Five
Another statement of sabbath law in Exodus follows: Masoretic Text Septuagint Exodus 31:12, 13 (Tanakh) Exodus 31:12, 13 (NET) Exodus 31:12, 13 (NETS) Exodus 31:12, 13 (English Elpenor) And HaShem spoke unto Moses, saying: The Lord (Yehovah, יהוה) said to Moses, And...
by admin | Feb 8, 2019 | Deuteronomy, Section Five, The Fear of the Lord, Visiting Iniquity
I’ve been considering yehôvâh’s fearful pronouncement: I punish (pâqad, פקד) the sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons for the sin of the fathers who reject me…[1] By way of review, I didn’t find anything about the Hebrew word itself that would compel anyone to...
by admin | Aug 26, 2018 | Atonement, Section Four, To Make Holy
I’ll continue to consider yehôvâh’s (יהוה) instruction to Moses: They[1] are to eat those things by which atonement (kâphar, כפר; Septuagint: ἡγιάσθησαν, a form of ἁγιάζω) was made to consecrate and to set them apart, but no one else may eat them, for they are...