The Book of Mormon, often considered a cornerstone of the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), presents itself as a spiritual and historical document. It’s linked to the claims of Joseph Smith, who professed to have retrieved golden plates in 1827 from which th...
Puritans a name given to a large party in the reign of queen Elizabeth, who complained that the Reformation in England was left in an imperfect state, many abuses both in worship and discipline being still retained. The name Puritans was derived from the frequent assertion of those who compos...
The best authorities are therefore in favor of the pelican being the bird denoted by kaath. The etymology of the name, from a word meaning "to vomit," leads also to the same conclusion, for it doubtless has reference to the habit which this bird has of pressing its under mandible ...
SALLON’S STUDIES were not the first to revive ancient seeds. Some years ago, Dr. Judith Shen Miller at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) germinated 1,200-year-old lotus seeds, and more recently, Russian scientists have reported the growth of 30,000-year-old Arctic lupin se...
when the advocates of instrumental music betake themselves to the original text of Scripture, and profess to find an unanswerable argument for the organ in the meaning of this and that Hebrew and Greek word, it becomes absolutely necessary to follow them there, and to shew that their philologica...
obligations that radiate outward in concentric loyalties. Our responsibilities to humanity at large are extraordinarily small in comparison to our responsibility to our immediate family. This again demonstrates that family, clan, tribe, nation, and race have meaning in the Biblical paradigm of society....
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While Maimonides’ position is based on the talmudic passage that we will consider below, it goes beyond the pas-sage’s plain meaning by stating that all the verses of the Torah are entirely equal. Since this reading is forced, it is likely that Maimonides intended this strong statement as...
revive me by your word.26 I told you my plans, and you answered. Now teach me your decrees.27 Help me understand the meaning of your commandments, and I will meditate on your wonderful deeds.28 I weep with sorrow; encourage me by your word.29 Keep me from lying to my...
The narratives of the Gospels show how strongly the disciples were impressed with the words which had given a new meaning to the old familiar acts. They leave unnoticed all the ceremonies of the Passover, except those which had thus been transferred to the Christian Church and perpetuated in ...