Audrey Farley, The New Republic, 21 Dec. 2020 But, beginning in the 1500s, the Protestant Reformation swept away the cult of Christian saints, denouncing them as unbiblical and idolatrous. Daniel Burke, CNN, 6 Dec. 2019 Word History First Known Use 1828, in the meaning defined above Tim...
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• From the Biblical meta-concept of the day derives the specific solar day Our noun יום (yom), meaning day, is mostly used to indicate the light-part of a solar day, or rather, the part during which one can work, travel and trade. It's opposite of ליל (layil)...
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 jus...
God also walked (hawlak) in the midst of the temple. The meaning is clear. The garden was a temple for God. Like the temple, the garden was the joining together of God’s space and man’s space—the intersection of the heavenly realm and the earthly realm. For this reason, Isaiah ...
Mohammedanism called by its professors Islam, meaning "resignation" or "entire submission" (i.e. to the will of God), in accordance with the Koran, which, as we have already seen in the article under that heading, is the Bible of the Mohammedan, and in the days of the Prophet was ...
I drew this picture maybe two or three years ago. It deals with how the church sometimes translated the Bible in such a way that the (egalitarian) meaning of the text does not come through, and then church members pointed to those translations to “prove” their point. ...
And still others link the "idiot" meaning to the idea of Nimrod's self-aggrandizing and tyranny, which are unwise life choices in the biblical worldview. Nebuchadnezzar II, somewhat the worse for wear after drinking a 'nebuchadnezzar' Wine bottles The Bible is full of marvelous names—...
language, but he is learning it. Wanting to spend more time with my kids this summer, and seeing a voracious appetite for learning in myfive-year-old son, I offered to help him learn a language. I told him I could offerHebrew(of the biblical variety),Greek(koine/New Testament), and...
of these two expressions is also seen in Pr 5:14, where ἐκκησία and συναγωγή stand in juxtaposition for the Hebrew קהל and עדה. In the books of the Apocrypha, the word, as in those of the Old Test., retains its general meaning, and is not ...