Most of the meanings attributed to numbers in the Bible relate to prophecy, laws to be followed or punishments inflicted. The most common Biblical number is 7. According to Genesis, the Earth and everything in it was completed by God in six days, and the seventh day is reserved as the D...
"the English Bible, a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power" [Lord MacaulayMiscellaneous Writings] Bible Books of the Bible (Old Testament)Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Jud...
27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”The
In Chapter 9, MacDonald considers how Numbers 7–10 and Exodus 24 are ordination rituals derived from the others. Numbers 7–10 comes “with a focus on the leaders and the Levites,” and Exodus 24 functions as a preface to the Sinai narrative, providing “an interpretive lens for the tab...
This hair length difference clearly separated men from women and it was ordained by God. Of course, we will have the naysayers who point to men like Samson who took Nazarite vows (Numbers 6:1-21) which forbid them from cutting their hair or other examples of women shaving their heads ...
If we are measuring sanity in terms of sheer numbers of subscribers, then atheists and agnostics in the United States must be delusional: a diagnosis which would impugn 93 percent of the members of the National Academy of Sciences” (Landscape, 157, 158). So, while on the one hand ...
This biblical name for girls means “tender” or “tenderness” and was common in Colonial America but has since faded from favor. In the book of numbers, Mahala was the daughter of Zelophehad, and its nickname (Hala) is an attractive method to condense the three-syllable name. ...
The word “so” is not a conclusion reached regarding numbers, but rather a word showing that Jews and Gentiles had to enter the kingdom in the same way or manner if they entered at all. Now, please think about the expression “and so all Israel shall be saved” in Romans 11:26 and...
Where the Jews were not in sufficient numbers to be able to erect and fill a building, there was the προσευχή, or place of prayer, sometimes open, sometimes covered in, commonly by a running stream or on the sea-shore, in which devout Jews and proselytes met to worship, ...
24 on Numbers) he says that "the entrance of sin into the world made a propitiation necessary, and there can be no propitiation without a sacrificial offering." Dr. Shedd finds the general doctrine of the Alexandrian school inconsistent with vicarious atonement, and interprets the special ...