The terms relative to color, occurring in the Bible, may be arranged in two classes, the first including those applied to the description of natural objects, the second those artificial mixtures which were employed in dyeing or painting. In an advanced state of art, such a distinction can ...
Description: We invite applications for the position of Assistant Professor in Biblical Studies in the Undergraduate Division of Religion & Philosophy beginning in August 2018. Applications from underrepresented groups are encouraged. Specialization: Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Preferred candidates will demon...
Even Jesus tells us as Christians, we will have authority over snakes and scorpions. He is speaking of spiritual enemies here and not the physical realm. I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.Luke ...
1:281), describes it as "an aromatic substance, flowing from the juice of a certain tree." Ladanum is described by Herodotus (3:112) as particularly fragrant, though gathered from the beards of goats, where it is found sticking. This is explained by referring to the description of Dios...
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. [MAT 1:18] The sins of the father Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they ...
It has taken us well over two hundred years to reach this absurd historical moment, but it is pitiful beyond proper description that the moment arrived at all. The nature of marriage cannot be altered by mere human vote, even if the vote is unanimous! A horse cannot become a cow and a...
Natural selection is a description of what happens in nature when it is observed that the diseased, least fit, and injured are removed from the gene pool. We can think of natural selection as ‘quality control’. The way quality control in a car factory works is that this department ...
Lament - to be outwardly sorrowful, can be written or sung (Psalm 17 shows the format of a lament psalm – the address (verse 1), the description (verses 2-12 where verses 2-5 are the "I" part, verse 7 is the "Thou" part, and verses 8-12 are the "enemies" part), the ...
I believe that this is an apt description of it. It was reminiscent of the great Campbell-Owen Debate, but it might be more accurately likened to Paul’s meeting the Athenian philosophers on Mars’ Hill when “…certain also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him” (Acts 17...
2. To the description of Paradise, and the history of the Fall and of the Deluge, very similar remarks apply. All nations have their own version of these facts, colored by local circumstances, and embellished according to the poetic or philosophic spirit of the tribes among whom the ...