耶稣看见这许多的人,就上了山,既已坐下,门徒到他跟前来,他就开口教训他们,说:虚心的人有福了!因为天国是他们的。哀恸的人有福了!因为他们必得安慰。温柔
Genesis 4:25 God responds to human sin by seeing to it that life prevails over death. The section contains two parallel passages. The first, and shorter (4:25-26), concludes the Yahwist story of the origins. The void left by Abel is filled by Seth, the new founder of the people of...
One of the many passages that cracked open the possibility of my error in thinking was the passage we are looking at today. Ezekiel is in the middle of a generation of Israeli’s that are under the judgment of God, with deportation and captivity from the land being experienced by the nati...
these bitter lamentations of the lead character do not represent the perspectives of God or the author. Circumstances have obscured his vision. The reader knows the end of the story and feels compelled to challenge Job's quality of life argument, as do other passages, which confirm that God'...
After the inscription, which gives the title of the book, and describes the author by his name, descent, and dignity,Pr 1:1, follows the scope and design of it, which is to teach men wisdom and knowledge; even such as are simple and foolish, and particularly young men; nay, hereby ...
” As the text suggests, Cyrus did ultimately release the nation of Israel from its exile without compensation or tribute. Traditionally, the entire book of Isaiah is believed to pre-date the rule of Cyrus by about 120 years. These particular passages (Isaiah 40–55, often referred to as...
I have already looked up one of those passages –Deuteronomy 6, lets notice and underlineverse 2 – the purpose of observing the statutes and rules is to “FEAR GOD” –and we have seen that idea frequently if you’ve been following along in the series on Malachi[See previous Word Detecti...
And when we read passages in the Bible that talk about “in the world but not of the world” or “those who have ears should hear” or “He was in the world but the world did not know Him” we should also think about this meaning. As Christians, it’s not us versus them. Just...
II, passages on pages 248-50 (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899). You will notice that Winston Churchill there mentions the rise of Islam in Central Africa, and it is also worth noting here that imperialistic Muslim armies in various countries of Africa have recently massacred many ...
When I was diagnosed with cancer and my life was threatened by it, I began to see things in familiar biblical passages that I had before overlooked. Why?You only get answers from the Bible to the questions you ask of it, and a man with cancer asks different questions of a Bible passage...