by admin | Sep 10, 2026 | Keep My Commandments, Section Seven
Jesus said (John 14:15, 21a Berean Literal Bible): If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. The one having My commandments and keeping them, he is the one loving Me [Table]. The Greek is: Ἐὰν ἀγαπᾶτέ με, If you love Me. Translating Ἐὰν If, leads me to the...
by admin | Nov 22, 2017 | Forgiven or Passed Over?, Forgiveness, Section Four
I bogged down in this study a couple of years ago. I don’t remember whether I balked at how much work it would be or simply recognized the futility of studying ʽâbar alone. I’ll start again comparing and contrasting ʽâbar with nâsâh. The translators of the...
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 | Jan 26, 2013 | Chapter 10, Romans, Section Two
Brothers and sisters, Paul continued, my heart’s desire (εὐδοκία) and prayer to God on behalf of my fellow Israelites is for their salvation.1 This sounds to me like the justice Paul nagged the Lord about, something he would always pray and not lose heart2 over. But...
by admin | Oct 17, 2012 | Chapter 7, Romans, Section Two
Or do you not know, brothers and sisters, Paul continued, (for I am speaking to those who know the law [νόμον, a form of νόμος]), that the law (νόμος) is lord over a person as long as he lives?1 Thus Paul introduced another value of the death of those who were...