(This fact is similar to the fact that Jews in the area of the Jordan River were obligated to believe John the baptizer when he began preaching to them so that a new obligation was now imposed on them [Luke 7:29-30]). Now, there are two basic reasons why most Christians today have...
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...
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 ...
In order to grasp the significance ofthe kingdom of Godin the preaching of Jesus (and, more generally, in the Bible), we need to take seriously the ancient historical context in which Jesus and the biblical writers lived. Not only were monarchies the dominant form of political governance, bu...
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...
Origin: Feminine variation of Galileo, after "Galilee" Meaning: "Galilee" Description: Like the masculine form Galileo, Galilea is a variant of Galilee, a region in Northern Israel of great Biblical significance. Given the current popularity of soft Italian girls’ names, this name’s long hi...
With the meaning of “God has healed,” Raphael is undeniably a beautiful name for any baby boy. It also has excellent Biblical significance, being the name of one of the archangels. 69. Reuben Reuben is one of many definitively masculine boy names from the Bible. It is a Hebrew name me...
The significance of this find is that some archaeologists believe this was the setting of one of the most important chapters of the gospels. It is where thetrial of Jesustook place and where the Roman procurator Pontius Pilate sentenced Jesus to death....
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...