The translation was not read verse by verse after the Hebrew, but as one continuous passage" (Abrahams, "Jewish Life in the Middle Ages," p. 345).The Septuagint. The oldest and most important of all the versions made by Jews is that called "The Septuagint" ("Interpretatio septuaginta ...
While this is clear in Romans, it is also the most plausible reading of the difficult verse in Hebrews. If in the latter passage Sarah would be the subject, the sentence would read that Sarah, "despite she was barren received the capabil- ity of sowing seed" (αὐτὴ Σάρρ...
Paul hammers it home inEphesians 2. In verse 5 he says, “by grace you have been saved.” In verse 7 he adds, “so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.” Then, so we don’t miss it, he repeats (2:...
According toGeorge Harrison, “Ellis had discovered that if you open a Vick’s inhaler you find Benzedrine in it, impregnated into the cardboard divide.” The chewed cardboard strip, known as a spitball, energised the users and had a euphoric effect. As Lennon recalled: “Everybody thought,...
They are absolutely separate volumes of verse. The publishers, it will be seen, are the German firm that printed the Manchu New Testament, Schultz and Beneze. Borrow’s preface to Targum is dated “St. Petersburg, June 1, 1835.” Here in Targum we find the trial poem which in ...