The original name of Porphyry wasMafchusΜάλχος,the Greek form of the Syro-PhoenicianMelek),a word, as he himself tells us, which signifiedking.His father bore the same name, and was a man of distinguished family (Porph.Vit. Plot.c. 16). Aurelius, in dedicating a work to h...
Thus Dido is found to belong to the same root as David, "beloved;" meaning "his love" or "delight:" i.e., the love or delight either of Baal or of her husband: Hasdrubal is the man "whose help Baal is:" Hamilcar the man whom the god "Milcar graciously granted" (comp. Hana...
This was two languages, meaning there were 12 Spanish speakers and us. The guide had to repeat everything in two languages and we couldn’t communicate with most of the group or hear their questions. Not ideal. The guide was knowledgeable, but it just...
I have placed an explanatory note regarding the meaning of the phrase “the horn of David” in my digital expansion ofThe New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, The Ultimate Cross Reference Treasury: the horn of David. Note: Ahornis an emblem of power and sovereignty; and as one horn dropped ...
Multipolarity, Equality and Noah’s Ark: BRICS Banknotes’ Hidden Meaning Revealed by Creator. Days of Noah connection is making this very interesting. Joe Rogan Experience #2219 – Donald Trump. Israeli sources confirm start of retaliatory strike on Iran following reports of blasts. At least 5 ...
Miasoreth ha-lasoreth, the controversy took a new phase. He denied the divine origin and antiquity of the vowel-points. According to Levita, the vowel points and accents did not exist either before Ezra or in the time of Ezra, or after Ezra until the close of the Talmud. . They ...
and many of the learned and religious bishops, had promised far better things; and that a great many of those matters were, at least as it seemed to him, feigned by some evil-meaning men, and wrested some other way; but withal he beseeched the bishop that they two might confer a litt...
Looking for the true site of Eden in the highlands of Armenia, near the sources of the Tigris and Euphrates, and applying the names Pison and Gihon to some one or other of the rivers which spring from the same region, they have been compelled to modify the meaning of נָהָ...