stoops down and washes the feet of the disciples. I think they must have felt pretty bad, considering that they argued so many times about who’s being the greatest. Jesus was giving an
Now, as inmy previous post concerning angels, I’ll caution that most of Revelation – including the verse above – is apocalyptic literature and is to be treated with caution and not taken too literally. But that said, it’s pretty clear that whatever the Biblical devil/Satan does or does...
The verse is very similar to what Jesus says in John 5:28-29, where our Lord speaks of “those who did good deeds” and “those who committed evil deeds.” The next verse speaks of the righteous as “those who will shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of heaven” (Dan....
Since he thinks that when Ps 104 says the waters could no longer cover the earth as stated in verse 9 he thinks that is Genesis 1 rather than Genesis 7, and he concludes that the flood must have been a regional flood. He further assumes that animals have been engaging in predation from...
there were times (such as in civil judgments) in which "killing" was commanded and sanctioned. Blasphemers were to be killed. Likewise, in verse 17 itself it commands that "whoever kills any manshall surely be put to death." So we already see two qualifiers to the command "thou shalt no...
Another verse, we're talking about the time for Christ's betrayal when the time had come—when the prescribed days, when the exact day, the tenth day of that first month was there. Same Greek word used there. And that's what this means. But who wants to translate it so you would ...
(4)The tragic poets indulged in still greater liberties. AEschylus and Sophocles, being religious believers, still respected the myths; while Euripides, an unbeliever, cared little for them except as materials for his verse. (5)In a still later age they were mere materials for works of poetry...