But here, I want to conclude this article which stresses the significance of the “cleansing” in Acts 15:9 with an argument: If Cornelius was cleansed by “the faith” prior to Peter’s coming to Caesarea, then
3. Third, what is the significance of the reference in verse 10? Lot compared the east to Egypt with its Nile River, where everything was lush, fertile, and productive. 4. Fourth, what were the boundaries of Canaan? Sodom and Gomorrah were either just inside Canaan or outside altogether...
Genesis 19 describes the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah as a result of the deviant behavior and sins of their inhabitants. A group of archaeologists believes they’ve uncovered the ruins of the ancient city of Sodom, located in Tall el Hammam, east of the Jordan river. The...
Yet there is more to the promise of the land than religious significance arid theological meaning;an essential interrela-tionship exists between the political and empirical reality of the land as a Jewish state and all biblical statements about its spir-itual or theological functions.The land of ...
Lecture I in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series from May 16th at Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto. In this lecture, I describe what I consider to be the idea of God, which is at least partly the notion of sovereignty and power, divorced from any concrete sovereign ...
But its grand significance was now first drawn out. SEE JEHOVAH. (2.) The mission was given to Moses to deliver his people. The two signs are characteristic-the one of his past Egyptian life, the other of his active shepherd life. In the rush of leprosy into his hand is the link ...
significance were attached to the old name. The word Gilgal means a "circle," and also a "rolling away." A similar play upon a word was noticed in the case of GILEAD SEE GILEAD ; and Bethel is an example of an old name having attached to it a new significance (Ge 28:19; Ge 35...
One thought fills the mind of both king and prophet. Syria is the fierce enemy who is gradually destroying the country, and against Syria one final effort must be made before the aid of Elisha becomes unobtainable. What was the exact significance of the ceremonial employed, our ignorance of ...
In opposition, however, to this method of inquiry, it may be urged (1) that Cush (Ethiopia) has a fixed geographical meaning, though of wide extent, and that hence every effort to give it an entirely new and special significance in this place, as is done by Clericus, Reland, Michaelis...
It is perhaps worth notice, where every syllable has some significance, that while "the Gazathite . . . . the Ekronite," are all in the singular, "the Avvim" is plural. So with the other aboriginal names. Nothing more is told us of this ancient people, whose very name is said to...