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 | Mar 22, 2016 | Condemnation or Judgment?, Section Three
My bias that—He shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, And with the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked[1]—prophesies Jesus’ return to earth to preach the Gospel effectively (as opposed to executing people for a thousand years) led me to investigate...
by admin | Jan 2, 2014 | Section Three, The Fear of the Lord
Each of you must respect (yârêʼ)[1] his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.[2] The Rabbis who translated the Septuagint chose φοβείσθω, a form of φοβέω[3] (fear, put to flight).[4] The note in the NET reads: “Heb ‘A man his...