It has a joyous tone and signifies “the province”; it is one of the least-used names on our list of biblical baby names. Wheel also has alternate meanings of revolution. Galilee is a location in northern Israel where Jesus spent at least thirty years of his life. It also lends itself...
6:633). Afterwards, when the chasm between Judaism and Christianity became wider, Christian writers were fond of dwelling on the meanings of the two words which practically represented them, and showing how far the synagogue was excelled by the ecclesia (August. Enarr. in Psalm 80; Trench, ...
The phrases “on these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets” and “this is the great and foremost commandment” means that no other statement or purpose or command of God is more supremely binding on man than “love the Lord your God”; not the command to sacrifice, not...
whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your towns. Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor and are counting on it. Otherwise they may cry to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin…Do not deprive ...
on the stones,' "coals," A. V ), the term עֻגָּה referring, however, not to the mode of baking, but to the rounded shape of the cake (Gesen. Thesaur. p. 997): the equivalent terms in the Sept. ἐγκρυφίας, and in the Vulg. subcizericius panis,...
These verses show that there are multiple metaphors for the Church, and that words used by the inspired writers of Scripture can have various meanings. Catholics agree that God is the rock of the Church, but this does not mean He cannot confer this distinction upon Peter as well, to ...
my lament has scattered the stones of the city of Ramah. As if no one can see the Virgin in the shadow of the Cross. O my ancient mother, transparent and weightless, my mother, who seems to be absent. Rachel cries out to the Holy Virgin, who stands at the Holy Cross: stars come ...
These texts indicate the hidden soul of the temple stones, which echoes the Tabernacle’s vessels and jewelry. The holy place’s completion begins with human construction but ultimately requires miraculous divine intervention, which brings about tikkun (repair) in the upper worlds. At the very hear...
However, others take these precious stones and make of them an image of a dog or a fox but call it the image of a king, indicating that they use the same stones. Irenaeus, using such a vivid metaphor, skillfully shows that in order to see and understand the true "image of the king...