15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables; 16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house an hou...
It is an argument against millenarianism, and is interesting for its sketch of the rise of the doctrine with the well-meaning but weak-minded Papias, and its progress through all the sects and shades of belief, until "more than half of the evangelical clergy of the Church of England are...
Lesley, Arthur M
Men sometimes tell other men to “Stop acting like bitch” – meaning that they should stop acting moody or emotional like a woman.But most women, outside the black community, utterly hate being called a bitch by men. It is considered one of the most disrespectful things a man can say ...
Here Paul is speaking of the human tongue. 10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them without significance. 11 Therefore, if I do not know the meaning of the voice, I shall be a foreigner to him who speaks, and he who speaks, a foreigner ...
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. ...
Lk 7:22 Jesus to John’s disciples looking for confirmation sign, “Go tell John the sick are healed…”, meaning those that required miracles received them, but to those looking for a sign for the sign’s sake, including John or his disciples, no sign given. ...
The elementary school here was also the one time in my life that I’ve ever said the n-word. During a 4th grade discussion of a book we’d read for class which took place in the rural south shortly after the Civil War, I wanted to know the meaning of the one word I hadn’t und...
(מַמָּחַרִת הִשִּׁבָּת) of the Passover (Le 23:11,15-16.) The precise meaning, however, of the word שׁבת in this connection, which determines the date for celebrating this festival, has been matter of dispute from time ...
However practiced, asceticism is always meaningful, though the meaning depends on its social context: it may express the humility of a Hasmonean solider praying before battle, free the Platonist philosopher to attain union with the divine mind, or manifest the grace whereby Christians already live...