See passages such as Numbers 16:3, Numbers 20:4, Deuteronomy 23:1, and 1 Chronicles 28:8. iii. Because church was a secular term (referring to “the gatherings of the citizenry in a city-state to discuss and decide on matters of public interest” [Mare]), Paul calls the gathering ...
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We do not mention the word ‘valuable’ here, since this condition can be considered somewhat tautological: ‘valuable’ is defined ex post (Priem & Butler,2001). Some of the bustling airports served today by the airline Ryanair were forlorn and decrepit out-of-the-way landing fields before ...
“We have had many inquiries about the residencies through word of mouth from those who have stayed with us, along with winners of the Chapbook Award from the Poetry Society of America and the annual Fellowship Prize of the Academy of American Poets. Most of the writers are from the US. ...
But now, increasing numbers of women work outside the home. Exchange student programmes have struggled in recent years to sign up host families for the 30 000 teenagers who come from abroad every year to have some courses for one year in the United States, as well as the thousands more wh...
i. The New Moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king to eat: Special sacrifices were commanded for the new moon (Numbers 28:11-15), at the beginning of each month on the Jewish calendar. b. If there is iniquity in me: Again, David seems somewhat shaken by the fact that ...
ii. “Healing throughout the Old Testament has a mixture of spiritual and physical applications. Sometimes healing is specifically equated with forgiveness (e.g.Hosea 14:4;Isaiah 53:5,57:18-19;Psalm 41:4); at other times it relates to physical healing (e.g.Genesis 20:17;Numbers 12:13;...
The ashes were sprinkled in the laver of washing to provide water suitable for ceremonial cleansing (Numbers 19:1-10). ii. This was a shadow, fulfilled and done away with when Jesus offered a perfect cleansing. Therefore there is no value in “holy water” used by the Roman Catholic ...
Trumpets also sounded an assembly of God’s people, as in Leviticus 23:24 and Numbers 10:2. Here, the trumpet of God gathers together God’s people. i. “It was by the sound of the trumpet that the solemn assemblies, under the law, were convoked; and to such convocations there ...
According to Numbers 4:3, priests normally began their temple service in their thirtieth year. This date also means that Ezekiel grew up during the reform years of King Josiah (640-609 B.C.). ii. Ezekiel’s prophetic ministry “was in a sense a compensation for the priestly ministry ...